Long Potentates Poems

competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
  hominins humming mostly human song
  altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
  opportunistic, never staying long

  self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
  real representative intelligence
  modelling...

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The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.

Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall be my warrant through 
I went since I need must...

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Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripes adorning,
sent from the netherworld.

I wander through...

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And so I ponder my frailities as give giveness to the/they that are in response to my/your parental misgivings, the way windward wade their roughened cinder complexities confided to an annotated disgfiured desire-repost postured, annotized...

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A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's Final Version " Vowels " in Contemporary Terms

(" Vowels " (final version, without the definite article, with the poet's corrections)  in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris...

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large yellow diesel machines coughed
coughed thick black smoke, caught their breath
struggled convulsively and after a series of loud farts
assorted groans and mechanical creaks            ...

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Listening is the most
beautiful things, I have 
ever experience in my 
entire existence.
Given unto me the 
power of silent
by the silencer.

As the blackness removes
the colors from my eyes,
my intuition and instincts 
are completely replied upon
as...

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Love …

The power of power rests in her hands
She syndicates two together to generate voluminous.
She is so-called pressure by others for imperceptible she is, but then vintages prominence
A thin stripe divorces her from abhorrence but...

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peas do it
whole forests of 
deciduous trees do it
we's could do it too

let's copulate

complete phylums of 
pedigrees do it
i hope you'll agrees, 'n' do it
all desires to appease, do it

let's copulate

the paupers and the potentates
everyone...

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Like God amassing gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh,
vain potentates, possessed by pride that riches will confer,
depleted pillaged villages in pagan days of old…
With penetration privileges, their fortunes were foretold.

In feudal times, chaste clerics,...

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Make no mistake, in spite of 2020's terror, God's Mercy is being served on planet earth.*

Every morning, day after day, year after year, God's magnanimous mercies are endless.

Righteousness exalts nations, and its departure automatically engenders...

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Our world is changing in a profound way
through the philosophy of fear and lies.
You can't trust a word politicians say;
they connive and editorialize.
And legislate laws that legitimize
bigotry and greed for personal gain.
The tactics they employ...

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My mother and father never wavered in their routine. After each one of my siblings sprang into life, my father sat on the porch and spit ‘Day’s Work’ tobacco juice down his chin while my...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 29

At last O Children of the Mother Contrées*
Roll out the red carpets for High Potentates
The hour of glory at Champs–Elysées

Cry not from Eiffel Tower 2C degrés
Temperature rises end...

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People prepare for the worst,
for democracy’s struggling.
Worldwide ideologies lean fascist right,
dictators, potentates, and tyrants rule
unconstrained by any semblance of law.
The young don't recall past wars
or what their fathers fought for.
Politicians sell fear packaged as hope
through...

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Whether you are a red state or a blue state,
A Dictatorship, Socialist, or Democracy;
Let us be clear about one thing.

Although it's clear that some man-made
systems are decidedly better than others,
Let us be clear about one...

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LANDING

Big Brother's eye
beyond the sky 
Saw it not sneak nigh, 
round valley and hill,
gripping necks at will;

No Global Hawk, Predator, 
Brigadier, Mirador,
nor fortress and tower high 
Could site it here or there,
abridging lives to spare....

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A Moral Sonnet
 A big crow and a sparrow which had painted itself
In the colour of the big bird to appear masterful became
Good friends as the both suffered from bombastic 
Self-believe and they make a...

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Hidden flaws are often seen 
through the lens of an aged eye.
When shadows collaborate to hide hate 
and pretense helps bigotry go unseen,
just open your eyes; it's all there to see.
A collection of tall tales,
history's...

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An ethical poem 
A big crow and a sparrow which had painted itself
in the colour of a big bird to look masterful became friends
Both suffered from a bombastic belief they could 
take on the elderly...

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“Make love tonight as if it were your last
Then hold your youngest; memorize his face
Next time you see your sons, years may have passed
Hold fast to moments time tries to erase

“Our lion-hearted king calls us...

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Russia has indefensible missiles 
that can carry a nuclear warhead.
And climate change triggers bells and whistles,
for future predictions look bad, filled with dread.

Kim Jong-un has built a nuclear bomb
threatening to nuke the United States.
And ISIS...

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Gold-laden mules, beasts of burden, laboriously toiling in their quixotic quest to become princely potentates, 

Spinning in a joyless cycle, sparked by embers of short-lived pleasures behind brittle walls of opulence and heedless Epicurean delight

Deafened...

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potentates posture positive
pontiff punches prove powerful
protectors pretence premeditated
praetor promptly protects pride
princes' prance precede praise
princess' precious prayer prayed
progeny prose practiced perfectly
predator parades predominance
prey predestined predicament
primitive premise provides promise
preachers play perfect performance
populas position poorly played
powerless pouts past...

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You know what?
It's a brand new day!
One more chance to get it right.
What IT is, I haven't a clue,
and you know what?
Neither do you.
We all wander 
in and out of daze,
hardly aware
of our rathood in...

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