Long Neglects Poems

Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....

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You are pulling me down like gravity
You can be so burdensome 
You are pushing me down angrily
You are dangerous like a lion in the 
spooky den unlike some
You got to build more self-esteem 
I have...

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Interesting
is it not?

Not so Grand Children of immigrants from Europe,
seeking religious freedom
and economic advantage
and almost certainly of self-examined HAVE-NOT status,

Because, if not of personally
and economically
persecuted persuasion
and unenlightened neglect
and politically disempowering abuse.
then why would these wise...

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For all the times you made promises you had no intention of keeping,
For all the times I needed you with me instead of out with your funky women,
For all the times you made me feel...

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Adam was a husband,
misused by a wife.
He was very sincere,
and slain with a knife.
Ann laughs at his funeral.
She snickers to the bank.
She escapes with his earnings,
and leaves his life blank.
Ann fooled him for jewelry,
gained his...

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The Eager Traveler
by Ahmad Faraz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one;
When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had won.

And even the mightiest rivers found accessible refuge in me;
Though...

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Let me lead you on a voyage to the singularity,
where mind and world collide.

What is the mind?
A filter that selects and connects,
   the world as it varies,
with all its cues and views?
 ...

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Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fall.

The derivative reveals the slope of the tangent along the...

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Elegant grace has clothed us all blissfully...I give Him high praise 
Cherishing His Charitable spirit and sensing His faithful love overflow in us, giving us peace of mind and so much more
Honor the Lord Almighty...

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The things I've been, the things I have been, the things I am, things I'm to be,
a symbol so dark, a sign so brite, a mark of the heart,
shadow of the soul,
rind of mind,
as the...

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It’s simple as simple can be.
With a loving heart, a tender dream,
She welcomed me into this world,
Promising to give me a love that I will always need…

Love that is kind.
Love that is wise.
Love that abides...

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WHAT ADDICTION IS

Addiction, a brain disease, the inability to control
use of a substance, like nicotine, drugs, alcohol.
It can also be a behavioral problem, like gambling,
eating, sex, kleptomania, shopping, working.

Addiction takes over one’s self-control causing
psychological and...

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Pick me apart, prod and poke
I fear there's a dam in place
There's no articulation
Anger is thrashing about
I don't want to acknowledge it
My mind brings in the Hulk
"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"
Funnier than how...

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There's a message
You need to hear
Speak things into existence
The time is near
In this life 
There's no need for stressing 
Just keep on praying ??
Don't block your blessings (blocks your blessings)
Stop the hatred
Show some love
Things could...

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Distressed by Rob Barratt

My furniture is all distressed
It's unusually unstable
The oak bookcase is quite depressed
As is the coffee table

The worktop has a thin veneer
It seethes beneath the surface
The taps know how low they can… sink
And...

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I tried to tell you once before
but there are never enough words
and so many ways to show you the cause
but you prefer to sleep with nightmares
don’t ya

I walked with you
through freezing corridors
your feelings lurking behind
all...

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I AM INTELLIGENCE!
In world of mannequins, I step to the cause.
     I see this woman fussing at her child about wanting to go to the park.
     How...

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I enjoy this time alone with self,
arranging odd things I keep on my shelf.
Aluminum steel and pewter cast shoulders,
my in deep thought kitty that begs you to hold her.
A one color picture inside a little...

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We were on a 2nd floor garden terrace. The three-quarter moon was doing its best to set a romantic, gin-mood, pouring a soft pastel-blue on the world, that softened hard edges.

A cool breeze wafted jasmine...

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To think it's almost been an entire complete rotation of the earth's exploration around the sun. More days than I'd like to admit, since the bold presence of your existence was tragically and swiftly snubbed....

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Oh baby! 
Everyone speaks of a mother's prenatal travails
that make you a part of this earth's tales. 

But,
No one talks about what hassle you undergo
In your 9-month-long journey when you're all solo. 

I understand what...

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The Trace of My Rose

Lie down my precious, close your eyes
Relax yourself, get ready for a sensuous surprise
Its stem is long, free of all thorns
Its pedals are fully blossomed and thick
So soft and tender wonderfully...

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Oratio, precaria, prayer
is how we, our petitions share,
with the God, we adore and love,
who sent us His Son from above.

Prayer is not a way to get
the things o'er which we fret and sweat.
God is not...

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To parents and other regenerative social workers,
including those in significant co-responsible relationships
plagued by poverty and/or neglect.

We could invest less time and resources trying to discover
if harm came to a household
and/or to oneself,
and/or those for whom...

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Phantom Vessel - 
	Version One
	
	
	Damaged mind down
	down
	phantom vessel
	distance endless
	leaping chasm
	between two worlds
	no
	Slow roll
	left-hand take
	black marbles
	shade side glance 
	check
	Toward
	Hoarse Jesus whisper
	Listen 
	No need
	No need
	hand hold, right
	Brother follow
	heart hearing
	Jesusss.
	10 times
	Roll away home
	
	

	Phantom Vessel - 
	Version Two
	
	
	His damaged...

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