Long Mythologies 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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Do You Wanna Know?

Do you wanna know if there was an actual beginning of this universe?
Do you wanna know if there will be an actual ending of this world and our universe?
Do you wanna know...

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Dark chances,
unhealthy and unsafe trauma 
HiStories

Degenerating predative dogmas
not wanting to let go of ballistics
even for dawning light's sacred peace promise
to grab full-immersion hold
and heal dark mythologies
lose now and again later ecologies
repeat rehearsed
inside-only voiced economies
exploiting dark...

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The city fell into the hands of Babylon
The captors of Jerusalem thought that they had won
The battle against the God of Jerusalem
Had God forsaken the people of His kingdom?

The kings of Judah had turned away...

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"In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the...

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Unknown Nothings

Infinite amounts of prophecies
philosophies
sciences
ideologies
ideas
dharmas
karmas
and dogmas of 
beginnings
endings
afterlives
heavens
hells
nirvanas
enlightenments
salvations
damnations
repentances
reincarnations
meanings
purposes
life's suffering
trials and tribulations
creators and creators' adversaries
over-exaggerated
over-analyzed
over-interpreted 
over-exhausted
over-excerted
epic poems that have been canonized and turned into sacred texts and turned in religions spiritual philosophies
mythologies
folktales and fairytales
promisings of estimated...

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Let me set something straight -
Right here, right now!
Let me put India in the right perspective,
Let me banish some myths,
Some gross misconceptions,
And take you beyond elephants,
Sacred cows, snake charmers and yoga,
Beyond Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Taj...

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When younger, less afraid of dying.
Even now, less afraid of dying
than fearful I am already too dead for fully functional 
resuscitation

Reviving reconnecting
inter-religious panentheism

Maybe it’s just another monotheistic Sunday 9 PM,
last dregs of responsible weekend parenting,
trying...

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As if Narcissus could look
Into a weeping pool
Yet still on reflection fall in love

The ancient tears, which were gathered there
Around the puddle of our history
In silent memoriam

And what the heart does not see
And when the...

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Human life deserves a platform to unfold
Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny
Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold
They reject freedom and project a mutiny  

Born from the scorn society pours on freedom
Curtailing every...

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In a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times,
A dark veil is now woven, a prison for lost souls,
Where critical spirit and free thought are but whispered memories,
Control of education becomes the key...

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Wicked memories haunt my dreams at night and stalk me during the daylight, denying me any measure of peace and tranquility. Please, take me to the river Lethe and rebirth me, so that I may...

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Wake up to the magnitude of the responsibility you shoulder
In singing the destiny humankind deserves
Betraying secrets to the egregious egret whose stakeholder
In his demented demeanour reserves  

The right to plan, design and manufacture weapons...

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Hejama, seventh daughter of a seventh daughter of a Thessaly queen.
A natural proponent of black magic, sorcery, witchcraft and wizardry
Undlela ziimhlope, Aunt Vernafi suggested. An herb you will enjoy.

Hejama did not often take Aunt Vernafi’s...

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You ask me if I do believe in God 
So I ask God if He believes in me; 
I heard no word from God, not half a nod, 
Which leaves a doubt about a deity....

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A kaleidoscope of transcendent rhythms
Envelop my soul from the well-spring of a mystical
and majestic refrain.

Notes exalted in the heart of the awakened one
Only to be extinguished by the cruel masters of 
memory and time, which...

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Nets of remembrance cast way back
  Dredging and fishing the waves
Of surf on a childhood island
  Where the halcyon days sleep in graves.
Does anyone know where the time went?
  When the tide...

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A full moon is known for making people do things that are weirder and weirder. It only appears at night, even when the Earth rotates and stuff. It happens on every 14th of 15th of...

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All night he climbs his spinal cord,
up and down he goes
a worker ant
gathering globules of memory.
The bony spine itself
offers handholds for his ghosts.

At each spinal notch 
he enters the swim
of sub-osseous neural bundles.
Images are scooped...

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Like a rose, you filled space in the parlor,
The candles on tables made pale,
Queen of all you surveyed, unaware of my day dreams,
You rose, the first star over dale!

Gourmet sights burst on every channel,
Our smell...

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We are here
and sometimes there
for each other.
How else could we support
this glad global network
of becoming?

Health is here
when abundant life is not over there,
just past some eastern sunrise horizon,
while I sulk and stain my past
missed opportunities
stalking...

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The tiny hole in my sweater
that is what I have become,
The empty space there where I am lost to you and you search and beseech me with queries 
Unanswerable even to infinite space
I am the...

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The advancement of technology
Is happening faster than we can mature
We bow in zombie reverence
Mythologies we shall always procure
If we can't understand it
Then we categorize it divine
And we submit to a new God
Then another religion made...

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DISCARDING SAFETY

Is it safe to be naked when thought turns to deed?
Is it safe to be honest when a lie is what you need?
Is it safe to be a butterfly when linear thinkers abound?
Is it...

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Strange species that I met
there was one I saw in forest house
Double-edged spear in the chest
yet what I saw  were not spears

Strange species that I met
there was another I saw in a  beach
a...

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