Long Livelier Poems

I was skeptically listening 
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;

An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.

But, I found...

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Life is like that extent 
     Live that moment 
                   to full extent...

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slang..
up-dogged = when you chip in to keep a conversation trend going
fit = gorgeous
buje = unexplainable glamor
football minute = a minute, that with time-outs, that lasts a half an hour.
crute = cute but cringy
women's-rights =...

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I drove down the boulevard as I did a thousand other times
Passing by the aged blue-gray house - the bachelor's pad across the street
Hunkered down like storm clouds in a mist of yesterday's legacy 
And...

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Finding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures

Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed, and reborn again.

Happiness is inhaling the enchanting perfume of a...

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I often visited the prittiest and kindest lady,
who lived by an abandoned, weedy cemetery...
and she told me tales that made me dream;
up that pine-scented and rugged hill, the Devil tripped many times and finally fell:
when...

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Crackling blood lies in these forest grounds
Grass growing by its lively effect…
Growing a grimace to the environment    
As the predators hung her on the branches,
carving her left eye on the oak tree
and...

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Ah! Another birthday is 
About to be upon you again
It is so close 
But don't feel too frighten 
My friend.

We all have them
Or either we don't
We are here or 
Of course already gone.

But these birthdays...

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as things speed up 
at an ever faster clip
they're ready to interrupt
my mind's day nondescript
to mark my thoughts - every tiny blip

and keep them cross-indexed
in a clouded database
kept in the current context
never to be erased
their...

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Of Life Unknown

Those nights simply vanishes along
A memory of her only remains now in dreams
In exchange, is of lonesomeness whence love begone
Alike some thoughts, taking upon stolen wings

Somehow time amazes me much still
Little by little,...

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BAHAY KUBO

Our Bahay Kubo
Is made of light materials of woods, nipa and bamboo
It is situated near the sand dunes of the sea
Its fence surrounding it is made of bamboo too
And kitchen wares from indigenous and...

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Hopper's painted a sober couple
with an unamorous sentiment;
two lovers with faces too distant,
with hands not touching, not feeling...
just being realistic and sensible,
reflecting on a tomorrow that was coming.
 


The exterior colors are of a depressing...

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December is approaching with gelid gusts,
soon the candid snow will spread its white blanket
and dominate the lifeless and desolate land;
nevertheless, those pallid swifts with wide wings
search for warmer places livelier and more pleasant.

Gianni and Lucy...

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Saturday
The day she rewrote herself
No more sad songs
With livelier tunes she sings along
She has welcomed the call of opposites
When she wishes to be alone she calls a friend
If she is sad she tries on happy...

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Rest does not come easy upon this muggy unseasonably warm night
Eyes fixed as if seeing some other world, not the present
Life ordinary yet blank from pleasure, real sadness would be preferred to this unfeelingness
Depression's grip...

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You rested the pinnacle of your breast
Piercingly, against my chest
Seizing the breath in my lungs
My nostrils failed me
As your fragrance choked each and every opening
Until a second felt like an eon

I remember everything about my...

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2. Aria

Twain kindred souls start slow and reunite,
Same as lovers who split and then made up,
Though, twas a mere slow dance, a Pavane,
Taming a dance floor with their passive feet,
As Faure's piece fades, delayed music...

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You are more beautiful than beauty
More lovable than love
More lustrous than the petal of a rose
Livelier than life
More vibrant than the rainbow;

You have more curves
than a meandering stream,
Than a winding road,
More playful than a feather...

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She'd had her round in Life's blighting furnace,
Where stealthy wear and age blurred her face.
Dents shot where dreamy dimples had grown,
Lightning smiles usurped by involuntary frown.  

In her livelier turns by Midas' glowing shores,
She...

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Now I know I have a cheap chance                           ...

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I read You – less to learn,
for words are not Your
language nearly, but to touch
the spirit of You, Your dear presence
my soul pronunciation – “I live...
but not I” – more the spirit of Your
reflection seeking...

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Always look on the sunny side
The sunny side of life
It's where you'll forever find me
Life's just one big slice

A slice of joy and happiness
Waiting for you to call
Doesn't even require a passport
It's there to welcome...

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Always look on the sunny side
The sunny side of life
It's where you'll forever find me
Life's just one big slice

A slice of joy and happiness
Waiting for you to call
Doesn't even require a passport
It's there to welcome...

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Free, at last, from the life of ire
Ignited her misery with his pyre—
Reeking of her husband of years,
Embers cooling slowly like her tears.

Married a lad so handsome and young,
Sweet as sorbet on a fevered tongue.
Two...

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Always look on the sunny side
The sunny side of life
It's where you'll forever find me
Life's just one big slice

A slice of joy and happiness
Waiting for you to call
Doesn't even require a passport
It's there to welcome...

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