Long Nitpicking Poems

Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene

All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(sweat and tears) 
of San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or...

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I wish if I could understand your crazy game. It is driving the world insane. I which If I could understand this crazy game, from we made eye contact life is not the same. Thousands...

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Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom, 
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze,
teeter-tottered precariously. 
at the edge of the thingamajig, ...jigging one way, jagging...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Three

Note:  I do hope it’s clear to readers by now that – strictly speaking – in these ruba’iyat, I deviate from the original Persian medieval model, introduced...

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it’s exasperating and makes my stomach churn
there’s a brand new prejudice at every turn
looking at others out of the corner of our eye
all this nitpicking to try and find fault on the fly
this pointless bickering...

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Bad evils are flying in my stomach.
Inferno is burning out and reaching its  apex in my heart.
My nitpicking mind is calculating the pain of my innocent soul.
The devil is dancing on my head and...

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Bad evils are flying in my stomach.
Inferno is burning out and reaching its  apex in my heart.
My nitpicking mind is calculating the pain of my innocent soul.
The devil is dancing on my head and...

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Working

Don’t like working 
‘Cause it’s really such a bore.
Don’t like meeting deadlines,
‘Cause they’re really such a chore.
Don’t like attending meetings all day long,
Since you just sit and talk for hours in a stuffy, dark room.
Don’t...

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Anyone can work a camera,
the ability to shoot and click.

It's another thing entirely
to find the shots no one takes.

The angle, to find beauty 
in the ordinary.

To look beyond the surface
and see the entire shot.

Ye we...

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Have you ever felt like you were wasting your time
Like knowledge doesn't matter
Like understanding is overrated
You have no gold spoon & no silver platter
Going through school is only for the wealthy
Even though the middle class...

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I woke up to the sound of the keyboard clicking
I went ahead and arose and I'm not nitpicking

It wasn't long after that a friend of mine called
I'm glad we have things such as phones installed

We...

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We act.
Rationally or irrationally,
logically or at random,
often intuitively.
Wise is he who considers first
the consequences of his actions.
For we do fashion our destiny,
like it or not.  Then we complain,
a futility of whining,
nitpicking trivialities
fashioned by our...

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it is natural that this is
a time for memories
after all these years
aboard the planet
and having almost arrived
the time to disembark
so it's touching to remember
those sublime moments
and those not so much
I didn't want to become a...

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