Long Intoxicants Poems

Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great. 

Lament to the...

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The Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts 
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...

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Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...

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IF TONIGHT WAS MY LAST.........

   it would be okay.......I have lived a good life......and found the blessings in pain.....
I have inspired people for lifetimes.......and helped show loves way.....
I have jimmied locks on minds........so the traps...

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Stashed with programs recorded, which, condensed on universal files
Will tell them very little of what they don’t know and may never know
In this lifetime or the next heaven, in this orbit or the next
Treasure from...

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The evening air spreading its soft chill,
Playing with the blue mountain to nature's will,
New snow flakes engulfs the barren hills,
Taming my heart with tender warmth and thrills. 

At the inn the keeper holds a lighted...

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2/1/23

Shout out to Einstein
How has it not already been a sign of the times?
What a tragedy the way that Christ died
Too real it's lifesize
To this day we got all these wise guys
Full of white lies
Critically...

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Calcutta. 

Hot and unberable in the searing summer heat 
and unberarable for more reasons than the heat. 
In a popular tourist cafe an American widow 
obsesses on her dead husband: she has a bundle 
of...

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RESPECT YOUR FREEDOM

I glance through my verandah window,
Birds flying over my head freely.
I imagined myself floating like them,
In pain complicated, reminiscence shown deeply.

The afternoon breeze breeds an aroma,
Like fresh cologne of summer ivies.
Unlike bad odors...

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Spring is back with its unmistakeable intoxicants.
I stand, once again, by a road that leads to another day.
My mind hums ceaselessly, one day at a time....
A cobbler displays his craft on my shoes' ruins,
With funny...

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Jhon Lenox,
The messenger of the queen of science!.
Your exploding English,
Your tact to bring your rival
To dust
Has often made my heart
Forget a beat!!
I envy your students at Oxford
Who pick up pearls of wisdom
Scattered by you in...

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Praise, a chronic disease
Ruins humanity
Increases sugar in blood
Spreads intoxicants in artery
Hangs a curtain before eyes
Hides truth.

Mind dips in self-enchanting
Always seeks false praising words
Credits
Clappings
Honours
Rewards
All treasures of materialistic world !
Mind guides the human
Mind commands the soul
Instigated by...

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The words they articulate
Don't match their mouth movement
Their eyes shift and wander
Like gazelles bounding
Toward a golden sunset
Pierced by a jagged mountain
Before the sky opens
Like a cosmic flower
Revealing a sea of stars
And somewhere among them
I'm just...

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I told the world about my cure
Nobody gave a damn 
For a moment, I felt just like a god
I’m reminded I’m a man 

That boulder that’s upon your back?
It’s a tiny pebble, bro
How big you...

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Drowning myself in contemplation 
I began to drift into meditation

Sincerity
Trust
Hope
Elation

Was my upbringing bound to permutations?

Laughter fills my thoughts,

Children play hop-scotch across an eighties playground,
Full of wonderment are our childhood memories;


I still see the steam rising...

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to a dying or drying cactus,the sun is the answer.but the sun gave me cancer.ode to god,im 
not even as imporatnt as a dry plant who kills from the sod.my body aches and patches 
spread...

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Getting high is a state of mind
and this altered sense
of reality
can be achieved
without chemicals.
Life's full of natural highs
free for the taking.
Running injects a "runner's high"
a euphoric, feel good
burst of energy.
And a belly laugh's
like shooting up,
it...

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Summer arrives and the Brooklyn Cyclones are 
in first place
Saw them the other day and they won in twelve(!)
Just spoke  to a friend 
who wants to see the Staten Island Yankees play 
Another A...

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Free verse contest
Laura loo
30/06/2018


Quiet


As a recovering addict I have often pondered what makes the addict mind
So reckless...
So impulsive...
So destructive...
So obsessive...
So disquiet !!
So bloody noisy all the bloody time that the only way one can breath...

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Auto-annihilation is stupid, 
It breaks hearts, 
And ruins lives,
I hate that I was ever self-destructive, 
I rue the day I became entranced 
By its shadowy charisma.

Ethanol is a thief of youth:
Poor Jo-Jo was right 
To...

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