Long Ostensible Poems

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

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ENEMIES OF MY WORLD

They are the enemies of my world
I do the wrong, and they the right
They love nothing more than to criticize me
They preach repentance yet they need deliverance
They are the armored assassins of...

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty, compassion and truth
Against injustice, greed and lies
If people all over the world will do this
It will change the earth and make it a better place till...

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What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature is affable and affectionable.
Human nature is admissible and admireable.
Human nature...

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Morbid fascination (mine) as covid-19 pandemic...
foments rampant monopoly on bedlam

Wreaking ball (his stick) havoc (think ostensible
civil war scale not seen since Vietnam),
whereby microorganisms jamb
Homo sapiens immunity system
complements of gook
resembling green eggs and ham
necessitating Doctor Seuss

to...

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The question is, who is to blame?
     I often ask myself this question with no other thought than to torment myself. I have always concluded to admit (though it is a...

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TIGERS LIVING FREE

                     Spectacular symmetry of gold and black
      ...

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In the ostensible show of life’s drama,
enactments perfected with the labor of passion,
aureate the sequel created by metamorphic alchemy.
The surreptitious shift from one actor to another, 
is a designed axiomatic drive. 
For the schematic inducement...

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For the maneuvered inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of titular uniqueness,
the personified convoluted identity,
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon furtively cocooned,
paints the shifting façade of disparaging deception.  

In...

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You made a puerile and repugnant scene.
That was the night you broke a slot machine.
You did it in the casino right out in plain view.
There were scores of patrons around us to watch you.
You pestered...

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THE BRIDAL SOJOURN
Like an American spy I have always been looking around 
Wandering around the downtown
Not because of my lost goat 
Nor because of my missing boat
But obviously I am the to-be groom
Who has been...

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For the contrived inducement of fixated being,
the transmuting tenet of uniqueness, 
the personified indented identity,
changes in the self-devised palette 
of metamorphosed color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon slyly cocooned,
paints the shifting façade of deception.

In the ostensible...

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For the maneuvered inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of uniqueness, 
the personified indented identity,
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon furtively cocooned
paints the shifting façade of deceptiion.

In the ostensible enactment...

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Blood
crimson
not called by
any other 
name

Bud 
perfect 
crown petal
Donald's girlfriend
bold 

Gold
sun rise
Mary's joy
orange sun sets
red

Moth
and queen
corsages
colorful blooms
large

She
naked
lilies kin
belladonna
pink 

Blue
purple
red and white
sun worshipers
pig

Quaint 
fancy 
velvet tufts
ostensible 
face

Liz
easy
popular
multicolored
shade

Dull
deadly 
poisonous
insipid bush 
fruit 

Snap
charming
all colors 
incandescent 
spikes

Dawn
fragrant
vine climbing
red, blue, purple
tall

Wax...

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In the manipulated incentive of compulsive being
The transmuting concept of uniqueness called color
Changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange
While conjured chameleon shapes the human entity.

In the ostensible performance of life’s amazing drama 
Enactments perfected...

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Hope is hated when wasted on naught
When energy is drained by strained excitement
And when at last realization strikes
The ostensible happiness dissipates into despair
Doubt sweeps over as cruel fact
As others see a decrepit smile
Sovereign frowns reign...

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For the schematic inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of identity
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon 
paints the shifting façade of contrast.

In the ostensible enactment of life’s drama, 
the performance...

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They predicate despotism, while matriculating the 
servile.Presaging them to complacency.Who without the prescience of life's 
cadence,will continue to perpetuate peonage?They who poignantly and temper 
mentally,display acerbic discourse.Arousing those erroneous acts that cause the 
chasm of...

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The transmuting concept of identity called color
changes on contrived palette inventing color mélange,
while conceived chameleons crawl on human faces.
In the ostensible show of life’s so-called drama
enactments perfected with the labor of passion
aureate the sequel created...

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"pursuit of God & Heaven"

 In pursuit of God and heaven,
Wandered left and right, 
Top to bottom, earth and sky,
A glimpse of God all I wanted;
Higher I flew, deeper I swam, 
All I felt was...

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Senses defeated by the defile of insensible

Who stepped in with motives ostensible 

To take pledge upon our platform honorable,

With list full of agenda for power extensible!

Frustrations of the mass just regrettable

Living consequences of action abominable.

Who...

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Senses defeated; defile of insensible

are stepping boldly, with motives ostensible, 

to take pledge upon our platform honorable.

List of agenda is: Power extensible!

Frustrations of the mass is just regrettable

with a history of deeds abominable.

Who to address...

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I fought to be at their conference,
Wanting to make out the difference 
Of people of believed deference:
Men long fond of being at the top
And clearly humans one can’t just stop:
Actors we would shower reverence 
And...

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Lessons From History

When Hitler was voted into power
He scraped in (voting was a shambles),
But he knew it had come, this was his hour,
And so he took one of his biggest gambles.

He knew his grip on...

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Is this what has become of the youth? 
 Whose thoughts are easily susceptible,
 And subtly swayed of its rectitude,
 Favoring the majority despite being ostensible.
 If liberty to choose is not wielded,
 Thinking the...

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