Long Misperception Poems

I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions 
of...

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So we’re apart,
And our talks will never be the same again.
I guess I was the cause
But didn’t realize it until then;
Having never thought of befriending you
I ended up messing up everything.
I know that had to...

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what sin lies within seeking to learn the nature of our existence?

the wisdom of the ages is meaningless if humanity is gone

is afterlife more important than continuing humanity?

our very cosmos is filled with unidentified flying...

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"Tit for that is a fair game",they say;
A tooth for another,an eye for another;
One grave to a grave; blood washes away blood!
Darkness inspires night; tears dried with tears!
It is a slap for a blow; no...

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I spoke with two people at the party Saturday.
A young police officer, short-haired, fit,
chiseled face who had two young children.
He felt constrained by the law, without discretion
to question mopes (perps) aggressively
or to let go those...

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On his robe and his thigh he has this name written:
 King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 19:16
You shall have no other gods before Me.
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or...

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Written by D. W. Breidenthal 


You take my breath away

I wanna stay in this entrancing paradise
I want all of the negativity to fade away 
The darkness isn’t my property…I despise
Living a life that’s filled with...

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he looked at the gun double barreled and lean

but it was an old water pistol from his childhood


the rope around his neck had become a bunjee

and he bounced between floor boards and ceiling


the stove was...

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Bubbles of air
Can’t you see
Straight faced
Documented memories 

Lies sprinkled on truths
The misperception of dreams 
Nightmares haunting 
Sweaty screams

Stare away 
I cannot change 
Wished to
Once upon a time 

Shadows and light
Toothless things bite
Laughing it off
Doesn’t mean...

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Hippocampus

What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain

	Neurons transmitted untainted joy 

A night dive at Stackpole Quay in Pembrokeshire
Thick wet suit in cold waters weights on the belt
No...

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One day, one day the truth shall set us free
Those cunningly told lies will be revealed
Men’s scarred characters shall be unveiled
It will be brought to the surface for all to hear and see.

Night’s darkness will...

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What is Love?
MAN I don't know!
I mean girls say it to me all the time, but I just blow off their emotions like smoke.

What is Love?
MAN I don't know!

I mean when you prove it to...

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the reader of the stars devours the past and redresses the future

sees in crystal balls the flames at stake kindled by misperception


as slumber is kind for once I encounter the woman of my dreams

a princess...

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Have you ever felt the time was now
To burn it all
To burn everything down

Can it suffice to say
So many ways that souls in flame
Are beautiful
Such argent tears pour forth from empty, blazing eyes
As we so...

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Godot had been waiting for a penultimate eternity

he had been sitting on a gossamer of misperception

like the epitome of Rodin’s thinker falling into sleep


he had to admit that the Gordian knot had opened

but only to...

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The root of human suffering is this
we punish ourselves
according to the evil that we see
when we have suffered enough
we say, i have suffered enough
now i can be happy
or now i will allow myself to be...

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