Long Precedes Poems
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Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
precedes, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
God As Brown As An Egg
If God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.
Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?
What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?
Is this...
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Categories:
precedes, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain pick your pocket rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to...
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Categories:
precedes, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Please Michelle Obama
Please Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?
I highly hugely grant
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses
in tow wrought wonders
to one nation analogous
while an under dog
sweeping in like...
It's a Bird... It's...
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Categories:
precedes, 12th grade, america, appreciation, beautiful, freedom, health,
Form:
Free verse
Invite Our Day
Live each day
as if this day were your last.
What do you mean, dear?
Each day is your last day.
Well, no,
not if you have another tomorrow,
or perhaps even if you merely plan for a tomorrow
which never comes...
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Categories:
precedes, gender, health, humor, love, political, psychological, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Tao and the Art of Permaculture Maintenance
Information caused qualitative culture,
some might say cussed culture,
but, whether damned or graced,
culture, or vulture,
languaged-left hemispheric information
languished after right-brained exformation
self-regenerated human in/out-side culture.
Human culture preceded human race
and DNA races
and racism
and socioeconomic language boxes
and hierarchical...
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Categories:
precedes, earth, light, longing, loss, love, lust, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Philosophy of Integrity
Is also a metaphysics of integral co-relationships,
which would make an even worse title
for drawing you into
our shared land of bicameral consciousness.
Philosophy of scientific method
could also become
Philosophy of Beauty and Humanity,
You never know
this negative bipolarity
could turn...
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Categories:
precedes, community, environment, health, philosophy, political, science, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Troy and Trinity
Learning disabled, hopelessly unemployed
Troy can't write the address for his next interview.
Warehouse stock, 331 Tiffany Street, in the Bronx.
His girlfriend, Trinity, also unemployed,
with one child by Troy. She's more resourceful
but doesn't realize it. For one...
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Categories:
precedes, angel, baby, city, education, family, society, work,
Form:
Free verse
The Minstrel of Moscow
"I follow the Moskva
and down to Gorky Park-
listening to the winds of change" - Scorpions
All the heads of state and their spouses (or significant others) have arrived and been seated for this, my last show...
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Categories:
precedes, judgement,
Form:
Haibun
Pink Perforated Ping Pong Balls
Alfie was the first son of a billionaire
Who bought a golden cradle for his son and heir
There was no expense that daddy wouldn’t spare
And perforated ping pong balls didn’t feature there
On Alfie’s one year birthday...
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Categories:
precedes, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Surfing With R D Laing
"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego..; the emergence of the 'inner' archetypal mediators of divine power [struggling polytheistically with others; not monotheistically against], and through this death...
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Categories:
precedes, deep, earth, health, political, power, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Drag Race
The day has come, weeks and countless dollars invested in this moment.
All preparations have been made.
A myriad of nuts and bolts, inspected, tightened to torque.
Fluids fresh, topped to level, tire pressure lowered... maximum traction.
In rank...
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Categories:
precedes, car, poetry, race,
Form:
Free verse
Sacred Discourse
My OldSchool patriarchal Pentateuch
precedes our polycultural HolyNew Paraclete.
This Pentateuch
begins with the beginning
of theo-TribalEgo cultural correlations;
Genesis begets Exodus,
the ChosenTribe's emigration
into sacred Promised Land
Of special transparency
and divine vulnerability
for a religious Priesthood
found in Leviticus.
Levite Priests
Jesus recognized
and dismembered as...
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Categories:
precedes, god, health, inspiration, integrity, spiritual, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Luke's Purpose
Luke’s Purpose
Luke 1:1-4
Luke: “Many people have applied themselves,
to the task of compiling an account of the events,
that have been fulfilled among us [the shelves].
They used what the original eyewitnesses [gents] -
And servants of the word...
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Categories:
precedes, angst, atheist, christmas, history, irony, jesus, religion,
Form:
Quatrain
Addiction
Dear ......,
Its over, it's finished, I mean it - we're through!
I thought it was me but now know it was you.
I'm done with your lies, your greed, my fixation
insatiable urge that precedes degradation.
It's cost me...
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Categories:
precedes, addiction, beautiful, drink, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Light That Lights All Llghts
Primordial begs a question. Precursor answers,
prior request. Clarity necessitates perspective
anchored. Pre-Genesis /\ Chapter 1: Verse 1 of
it being OUR EARTH-- / \ Verse 3 is the FIRST
LIGHT as our Daystar/ ...
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Categories:
precedes, death, destiny, mother son, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Concrete
The Signs of the Times
I dwell between two major figures
Where twenty borders twenty-one
A child of age bygone, it figures
What I lived through can’t be undone
I keep on seeing a commotion
A whirl, a trend that leaves me awed
Perpetual flow, mankind’s...
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Categories:
precedes, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Mr Know It All
You dare to tell me what you think you know
Intellectual egotistical bravado?
You think that you can out think the Plan
Where nothing was and
. . .
BANG! The universe began?
. . .
The cosmic Know you think to...
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Categories:
precedes, christian, conflict, creation, god, identity, imagination, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
precedes, angst, cancer, confusion, dark, death, fear, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The last book of the Bible-Revelation, has intrigued and terrified many a reader in the last 2,000 years or so since it was penned. If you don't like religious writings...
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Categories:
precedes, bible, christian, encouraging, faith, gospel, paradise, religious,
Form:
Didactic
The Rebel No Anima No Animus
Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing wings to fly with found suspension
Stereotactic stereotypes archetypes semi-circling soothing...
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Categories:
precedes, men, society, women,
Form:
Free verse
Rain
Last time it rained was in April.
...
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Categories:
precedes, rain,
Form:
Haibun
Horror Show
THIS SHOW MUST STOP
When will you take and know that you have taken enough?
Is it until take all the chicks from the mother hen and there is none left to take?
Do you want to take...
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Categories:
precedes, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Die the Death
DIE THE DEATH!
(Dona eis requiem sempiternam)
Die the death and transcend vanity
O poor vernal flesh and bone,
Waned out of this primal valley
And sink like the moon beyond the coast.
All expectations, ‘tis the greatest
Reclined at the backdrop...
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Categories:
precedes, celebration, courage, death, destiny, heart, inspiration, time,
Form:
Verse
Bookshelf
I was told I should start reading to improve my abilities
this is how they go about maintaining ones stabilities
As I scavenge the selection, I'm left with several options,
however I'm just looking to fulfill my visual...
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Categories:
precedes, hope, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse