Long Platitude Poems

THE CLICHE SUBJECT MATTER
I tried to study you best way I could without weighing my infatuation
And before I knew it I was knee deep in a classless obsession
I added you to my thinking pattern, all...

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To go on ahead 
without you
is dead,
said strong Yang's spatial
spirited Mountain

To Yintegral flowing
living EarthRiver
of temporally co-arising energy
power
light.

Left hemispheres
speak in mounting deductive thoughts
sequentially supposing Yang opposes Yin

While synergetic Right hemispheres
flow in and out
with complexly nuanced nonchoices
inducting...

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God, how can I honor You?

                             ...

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Does it mean we are friends if I mirror your thoughts,
That we like the same jokes or our politics sing
A conventional melody?

Does the ground shake (we stand on) when boundaries slip,
When emotional dams burst, magnetic...

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When "oppressive"
becomes synonymous with "government"
and when "government"
becomes synonymous with "bureaucracy"

Then "oppressive government bureaucracy"
sounds like a redundant bad-boy platitude,
ungrateful anthro-
elitist attitude,
absence of relationships 
for which I might feel
non-egged on
and non-eggheaded
regular
everyday
humane/divine 
peace mindfull 
gratitude. 

While "enlightened government...

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It’s a recurring thought–
Over and over again–
echoing in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps coming back,
Like a song stuck in your head,
A thought that gnaws at...

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“Progress Being”

The opportunity struck that I grew to find,
I took a risk and felt no urge to change my mind.
In the “now” to live my life without regrets
The game of life’s chance called roulette.
I don't...

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Toward God and His way to assured salvation
…affirming eternal power of regeneration
…asserting priceless redemption
…awakening through miraculous new creation…
His believers are we, trusting Him for our transformation!

Toward God by His Word that resounds His tender mercy
…refreshing...

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The singularity of my voice, 
Wailing out in this dark, wild, and philistine-infested wilderness
Today; Its uniqueness alone amongst several million babbling, 
Balbutient tongues, and inked pens and platitude-riddled pages on blinking 
Computer monitory screens,
The intelligible and the inane, 
The...

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Form: Alliteration
A little alliteration by a long shot speaks so loud.
Metaphors muddle my mind
And silly similes stymie the sentence.
A terrible trope takes too much of my time
g Tiberius is my tag and title
My nom de...

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May life bless you with real freedom, 
Keep enjoyment as your place, 
May you find your own confidence, 
From your education and your space;
May you entertain discernment,
Whilst fulfilling your desires,
And may platitude be rescinded, 
By...

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I wish I knew how to be wise
And have that knowing look in my eyes
Remaining silent while you nattered
As though I knew what really mattered

I’d never chat about the weather
Or discuss TV when we’re together
Always...

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Who Are You ¿


What can you see of you
When everyone around you
Only sees the worst of you

When they are addicted to the weakness
Which plays to their ego

What truth of you
Is shown you

In the guise of...

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In my life, narrow margins matter
Opening my eyes wide
To better perspectives which don’t flatter
Dispensable pride riding on the tide 

Where populism portrays norms
To which I don’t subscribe
Despite unusual forms and storms
I ride although I can’t...

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

                       ...

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A world without banter, 
Would be sad one to encounter,
With spades called by their proper name,
Sitting in an Isle of shame,
While the holier than thou,
Tell us banter between friends is not cool now.

I feel for...

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United Nations, United Nations
What an oxymoron!
What an oxymoron!!

The platitude goes-
‘United we stand’
In the UN,
How erect we stand!
How erect we stand!!
We are homo erectus
Aren’t we?

This genocide-friendly unity of nations
With extra-care tending
The weeded garden of poison-trees.
When Hutus...

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Future Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron


Before time was created lived an hourglass draining of sand,
the sand sank and there came the desire for true destinies,
Before the approaching set of tomorrow’s held hand,
came a grasp of the...

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Let love be the key and 
the purpose of my being. 
Let compassion course 
through my veins, and 
kindness to humanity be 
the reason for my existence. 

Let there be a hope for 
the future...

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Backwards and jaded,
living in a life so complicated.
Forgive me for my attitude,
but I’m lost in platitude
as I see a poverty-stricken city
drowning in severe debt…
and yet-
it's the children that won’t forget.
We find money to build new...

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The me you see is not myself, he’s tucked away on 
a high shelf.

A shelf built with painstaking care knowing nobody 
could hurt me there.

I know it seems that I’m always there - a platitude...

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Will ultimately acquire a resentful attitude. 
Adrift, things will be sought all through the house. 
The travel guide and short visas to Crouse 
My passport, birth certificate, and mood

The only thing that drew you away was sadness. 
This was...

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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

Some said it was coming, even imminent
But it’s actually here now, and for real
A New World Order no longer a theory
Such that of TV news we should be leery
What we think we...

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ADVERSITY

Adversity strengthens us...and God uses it to help mold us into stronger souls.
Adversity prepares a soul to be more passionate and purposeful about the things beyond mere 
mortality
Adversity increases wisdom when we allow God to...

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It's damned and it's free.
 It's torture and it's passion.
 It's you. All things to be.
 It's hypocrisy and the attitude of similar fashion.
 It's the cliches and the daily platitude defying the laws of...

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