Long Interchangeable Poems

What do I project? Some of what I have
Absorbed. Also, that which I have
Reflected upon and have parts of rejected!
I am aware there is a so-called church of
The Devil – I am cognizant of the...

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Jimmy Rigg - this dork I know, from Billings, Pennsylvania - always carries doo-dads in his pockets, front to rear,
Just in case some unexpected problem might arise...bent on having what he’d need to fix the...

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~ (~) ~ By design this poem is interchangeable within-and-with-itself either 
way being or which ever Nonet you chose to read firsts, they always recycle 
themselves. ~ (~) ~ 

~ (~) ~ This poem can...

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SILENCE, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's poem: Silence by T. Wignesan


The silence PRIOR to silence
	Silence anterior to the ineffable SYLLABLE where silence is born where it’s accomplished in advance
	PERCEPTIBLE syllable distanced by far from pure silence...

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A hiding place, a warm and darkened room,
A lit doorway, bright against the dark,
Cold against the warmth, a frame for odd
Assorted stranger-forms whose faces loom

As quarrels over (what?) convulse and rend them,
Leering laughter giving in...

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To My Children

Love is just energy forever changing form, but indestructible.
The force determines the beloved from the lovers, mistakenly interchangeable.
Whereas the latter are the bones of thy ribs, you the beloved are the
  ...

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Here are some questions, dear poets on Poetry Soup. As we look in within, we may find answers we have been looking for, beyond narrow conditioning and dogmatic beliefs. There can be more than one...

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The truth is always a lie
In the face of reality
It is a fragile matter of futility
In a word
Both grow side by side like mushrooms
Sound the same if given the right name
Heard only by one person...

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Sanatan Dharma in Hinduism means
Universal religion, eternal truth, Ankh
Globally it means Universal law.

Religion is like the peel of banana
and spirituality is the banana.

Speak the truth which is preferable that
Intelligent one prefers it while the
Ignorant one...

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Pablo...according to me (Part 1b, continuation/finish from Part 1a)

Re Pablo Picasso printmaking exhibition at Bellagio Hotel's Fine Art Gallery.

(7) Photo - PP's living room (by David Douglas Duncan), Summer '57, Villa La California Cannes
 ...

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RITUAL

The anthropology professor
said Iroquois ways were a fading reflection, 
a cultural trace of a poetic narrative of indigenous
wisdom, tribal traditions that marry the spirit of
a primitive people to enduring kinship with the
earth and the sky

The...

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glittering gold crosses 
adorning muscled, tanned bodies 
endlessly liposuctioned into Versace
worshipping the almighty dollar 
as they cruise the golden boulevard 
disciples of Bentley and Rolls

paying lip service to the lord
with collagen smiles 
gracing plastic personas...

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there are “bands”
you know them well---
they play songs to make
women’s undergarments 
fall 
away---
melt & drip down their
legs like
hot
wax
& you also know that the music that they
churn out
is probably written by the same 
round table of...

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The market rules all
We are nothing but products 
The rights to us
Have long been sold

Bow down and worship 
The all mighty market 

Everything we do
Everything we see
Everything we are 
Nothing but our personal brand

Nothing human...

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This is a fictional conversation between a fictional young Nazi and a fictional young Jew (I made them up entirely, they are not characters from one of the holocaust books I've read); both of whom...

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1.

The hidden truth is much more 
Valuable than the apparent,
The inner self is much more
Precious than the outer,
Don’t look at the world as 
Something distinct,
As something alien,
It is part of you, 
You are part of...

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“your trauma doesn’t define you”
my trauma does not define me
only if i allow it to 
if i allow the shadows to envelope me into their embrace
only if i allow myself to fall through their makeshift...

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Love 09 The 21 Discussion 2017

So many say they know of you, but so many deny you as being.
So many want to embrace you so tightly but fail to embrace your true meaning.
The interchangeable, mishaps...

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REVISED  CONTEST  RULES


What to Submit?

One original poem on the theme of anything you like. I could specify a theme, 
but if you wish to completely ignore my specification, and are
a personal friend, that’s...

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Iridescent curls,
lay askew around his neck.
The wind they blew them upward,
Lifting off his chest.

His skin so pale and flawless,
That it almost hurt to look.
He unfurled his wings of beauty,
And stretched them from their nook.

They spread...

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Old poems/new posts inspired by recent articles on PoetrySoup

All forms relate to the word
So from the beginning
They carried their ideas
In their minds eye
Shaping symbols
A dimension of spirit
The eye that underlies eyes
Vision makes the flash seem...

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it carries the baby
it cleans up the tub
it does all your homework
and gives great foot rubs

It takes out the trash
it can be a TV
it can play all your music
like a big mp3

it can be your...

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When people talk about traveling to the past they worry about radically 
changing the present by doing something small.  But rarely do they think about doing something small, to radically change the future. 


Baby...

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Why am I calm, brain please present a list of worries

Where am I supposed to be, just worry about that once you've started walking

Wouldn't it be lovely to... change every aspect of my personality and...

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Embodied

By David J Walker

 

As if I were a Ford or Chevy

Or an Old’s 88

Classified by year and make and

Model, registered and taxed and

Licensed with the local government

 

A product of an assembly line from...

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