Long Passionless Poems

Why does my multicultural applauding message,
my polycultural cheerleading,
sound so monocultural chant, rant,
a passionless litany of redundant verse?

Who would have it said of their voice
It remains both too rich
and yet wandering on far too long?

Even resonance
can...

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Thus says He who guards the gate,
The atmosphere is stagnant,
Stagnant with discontented gluttons,
Tangled with tricks and deceptions,
Soaked with indoctrination,
And charged with foul breath. 

Thus says He who guards the gate,
The atmosphere is saturated,
Saturated with dirt...

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Where the Railroad Track Meet 

Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot.  That place where
the railroad track meet.  Almost had it in
Idaho...

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"Petrichor "



Two minds 
have made an entrance
magnetic bodies electric
minions babble 
it’s just wasted white noise
sandpaper against back stories hit
The Wall of Wasted Time
He’s read most between the lines
He’s all hard hot and cool
unruffled piercing eagle...

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I was born married to the master of subservience,
      fell in love with the master of somnolence.
           
I dissolved Reality,...

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It took very little to make us happy
young and intoxicated with feeling
high on the thought of holding one
another, embracing our way to 
madness, another bite of the apple
we were deeply in love. 

  ...

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Donor Cozeners
            by Odin Roark

Seduction eased into town long ago,
Thought to be natural.
It was
Praised as stability,
It was
Embraced as destiny,
It was…

Procreation ruled the nights,
Delivery rooms...

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Had I never known the heat of sensual fire 
From a woman consumed with sexual need
Whose object of desire in the darkest hours 
For pleasure and gratification - was me 
I would never quite realize...

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All alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects, innocent souls you courted,
Celebrating your maleficence building bonfires on the...

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Trinkets broken, 
blistered beads rolling like skittering ants
shoulders cast forward in an elegant dive
rainbow of colors broken open alive
to catch them, to keep them, a necklace-
to weep them, to mourn them alone as your anchor
She...

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Cast in stone and written in blood
Are the ideals of a lost nation?
Paving the returned ashes of the ancients
Their patience wore thin by the actions of the passionless
Armed in tools for a journey with no...

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O sleeping souls arise, regain consciousness.
You are not too wrong to run, be relentless,
Stop suffering and smiling with seriousness
The Savior came to save us from this stress…

When you feel your world is worthless
And your persistent...

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It is not the music,
for one knows it in the heat
that rises from a cool miasma,
sardonic, self-igniting--
the one that ravages and never warms,
consumes, and cannot care.

Cold flame is of another art, and passionless.
It is the...

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Long we may ponder the ages past
  Those things we held inside,
But nobody hears a sound of suspicion  
Or the innocents that slipped away;         ...

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The wind howls around the old house,
tearing at the faded ivy and whistling 
through the shuttered panes.
Water drips an endless melody
on the cold unyielding floor.

Everything is dark and empty,
oppressive, suffocating and morose.
But now and again,...

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As carefree moments surrender to
    promising creations and
    careful slumber,
events unfold like a tapestry of
    gilded fiber within the
    gauze of memory.

These rivulets drip from the
    elemental construct into
    all living matter,
until dreams become more than
    mere whispers of
    valor during peril. 

Dotted...

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My days and nights are tossed.Lost is the meaning of time and the need to wear a watch.
The room has shrunk to the size of a desk. Time grows smaller still, and I get carried...

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Has everyone really, always done something wrong?
Is there only one way to live?
Will you really just crumble from the insides
From the unemotional help that you give?

Is there only a few moments throughout the whole year
When...

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Unbearable White                   Double Etheree

             ...

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A fetching gaze across the room
Our eyes meeting locking as one
Hearts pounding and pulses racing
My full attention you’ve all but won

An informal first date not yet meaningful
For who knows what tomorrow will bring
Our personalities and...

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DARKNESS, EMPTINESS, HOLLOWNESS, DESPAIR                             
WEAKNESS, LAZINESS, CARELESSNESS,...

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Hate me, but for goodness sake
Don’t be indifferent
At least hate is a testament
To my power over you…
A warped and deranged compliment
To my importance…
For it takes passion to hate
And none at all to be
Indifferent

Hate me…but for...

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Beautiful Brenda was bewitched by a man she created in her novel,
Blissfully absorbed in her imagination with this man she marveled.
Boats and the sea were his lifelong passions.
Besotted with the ocean, it sparked supreme satisfaction.

Beguiled...

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there is no fire in the lavender skies of February
it is as if all that exists with warmth, light and desire
has fled to the future
it is here that the white swans muse and ponder
slowly stirring...

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the rations of hope tears me down, wears me down, and scares me down
why must i follow the hollow regions in which i dare choose to wallow
the enjoyment of the employment is so strangely and...

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