Long Miscalculation Poems

Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...

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Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a...

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Tell me, my friend,  
does infinity not unsettle your reason,  
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?  

Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—  
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...

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[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
  a quantum cellar creating
  the very big...

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A pulsing motive met them in the sky
to paint his birds before they flew your way,
then talons reared, determined to deny
the devil’s flying wolves a win this day.
Your heaven’s filled relentlessly with fire
as deficit engulfed...

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he was not dumb 

but he struck his thumb

now he was dumb-struck

and screamed jolly good

his hand in plaster

and bad luck his master

he could not drive his truck


to bide his time

he drank some wine

set out to...

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I keep hearing them say it
in the media these days,
we need representation,
it’s the only thing they say!
Now if they say it that much
they must be quite serious,
so I looked on into it,
and ended up quite...

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Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian 

The End of Earth as We Know It

A Grave Warning to Humanity

The clock is ticking, and the end of Earth as...

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Rampant reckless retrospect rushes 
The present blurs in blues 
The mistakes of the past make me miserable and low
And so, I give up and the feeling grows
And in wait for time to make things better
I...

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Russia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken back
As Ukrainian defenders launch, a devastating counter attack.

At a river...

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Battery Check

I had better say this before it is too late
& I'm doing a battery check 
down at the School of the Americas
badda boom mafia rim shot
the old wisdoms are newly or neo-inadequate
all of them...

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we …
sat here once …
so long ago it’s a dream -
a mirage of another life,
like a desert’s distant, fiery fog …
we were brine,
I, salt to your water -
churning surf that broke upon another -
that reef...

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General data protection regulation hits the internet running
Disrupting models of personal data manipulation, dissemination and protection
In scenarios where click and trick firms gunning
Through stealth and miscalculation

Harvest personal data
Share it, carve it, analyze it and synthesize...

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SMOKING WILL KILL YOU

He said “Smoking will kill you!”
catching the faint smell, scanning 
for ash trays as he entered her apartment,
ready to accept months of miscalculation 
of red lips and laughter, dark hair and desire,...

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A gardener, I became by chance
a purposeful man with detailed plans 
With a thought for each exigency
and a strategy for each contingency

I organized and theorized
I categorized, I normalized 
I estimated and resized
and finally, I stabilized

I...

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how is it we look into the future
using only what what bends our fingers
with all the assumptions that keep us
on the daily throttle but less than safe
hidden from each others' true gaze
by acts of will...

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A is for Arrogance, a proud unbending prince,
B is for Burden, his stony heart of flint.

C is for the Court, Arrogance's royal home,
D is for Dunce, a learned little gnome.

E is for Elegance, a beautiful...

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PER CHANCE TO DANCE

synchronization
such a simple concept
as per a preconceived precept
and both so delicately adept

fluidly
as one
each step a humble bow to  the sun
every beat a reverent blessing for the moon
while ceremoniously synchronized to the...

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If man were to travel to the ends of all time,
Where would his journey take him - and what would he find?
How distant the future no man can know;
He may have many - or no...

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Walking down the tarred road in haste
Beholding my watch that revealed the running time since I was late,
Disregarding my immediate world
And the activities around me that did hoard,
I had only one wish upon my head
To...

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PER CHANCE TO DANCE

Synchronization
Such a simple concept
As per a preconceived precept
And both so delicately adept

Fluidly
As one
Every step a humble bow to the sun
Every beat a reverent blessing for the moon
While ceremoniously synchronized to the tune

Every...

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FLUIDITY

Synchronization
Such a simple concept
As per a preconceived precept
And both so delicately adept

Fluidly
As one
Every step a humble bow to the sun
Every beat a reverent blessing for the moon
While ceremoniously synchronized to the tune

Every move calculated by...

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PER CHANCE TO DANCE

Synchronization
Such a simple concept
As per a preconceived precept
And both so delicately adept

Fluidly
As one
Every step a humble bow to the sun
Every beat a reverent blessing for the moon
While ceremoniously synchronized to the tune

Every...

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PER CHANCE TO DANCE

Synchronization 
Such a simple concept
As per a predestined precept
And both so delicately adept

Fluidly
As one
Each step a HUMBLE bow to the sun
Every beat a REVERENT blessing for the moon
While ceremoniously synchronized to the...

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Kenetic examples of wildlife are enjoyed after sipping green teas. But antelope sway at dusk. So be wary of teapots in tree houses. Gooseberries are often found loitering in desert yachts whilst porcupines are oblivious...

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