Long Pretences Poems

May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...

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I Cracked The Cream Cheese Through Your Whine

Wining And Dining    we savoured together and we still share five beautiful children sweet 
          ...

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It's a shame when you have a good thing going
& people want to intervene.
They don't want you to have
They are jealous & mean.
Their lives are not going well
They have nothing at all.
Instead of praying for...

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tread on! move on! in this life’s caravan,
unending trail of life from dusk to dawn!
pass skeletons in sand from days of yore,
sand has blown over, past footprints are gone

man with limp walks to meet destiny’s...

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La Historia-101, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez

Imagine, I cannot
To feel their lost
Longing for the return home
Rejoicing behind closed doors
Criminal act
Propagate servitude with miserable pay
Runaway between breaths
Hunted 
Capture, captive
Criminal act
Rape once again, over again
White women turned the...

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A Rant – The Quiet Hypocrisy


it seeps in through gradual osmosis

and soon is ingrained in pliant minds

it mutates and thrives in tunnels of vision

and then is fused into the fiber of unreason

the quiet hypocrisy that...

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When fate pulls at my haiku of heartstrings,
I curse the syllables of my poetic musings.
If I do not express my sorrows,
how will petals blossom in my garden?

Upon the midst of bewilderment,
lost without a bosom for...

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You’ve captured me with your words and I’ve captured you with my love, 
You are captured within the wound while I’m captured within the blood.
You’ve captured me with lies and I’ve captured you with the...

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Autumn will forever be the season of death to me,
but like time, I do not remain cemented in the past.
Memories of ghosts will always lead me to the stars,
as everything we love fades away eventually,
like shells...

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Quote from the original translation

Awake! for the morning in the bowl of night,
has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight,
Lo! the hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a noose of...

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If the world burned  
I wouldn't be too sad 
Afraid of the abyss 
But definitely just fine 
I have nothing  to cling on too much 
A lover, couple parents and 
Some family really...

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Hi guys, please go through my poem wrote by Mrs.Madhavi about imperial and blushing rose..

Blushing Rose 

Glowing in the early dawn,
Hey my beautiful rose..
Your aromatic fragrance has touched my soul..
Each and every united petals of...

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Why?
For I choose to not be blinded;
I pass pretences,
the periphery of parameters of People and Life
and the Illusions we wrap ourselves in.
Variables become Limitations when the cloak is too tightly woven
Lest it be a veil
Clearer...

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When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting and confusing the clarity of my conscience.
In a world of...

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I recall when I once sat,
Sticky spiders spindled about my lap,
Twisting and twitching within my place,
Lost to another incurable case.

Bent and broken, we struggled to find
A compromise between heart and mind.
Pretences built high, but still...

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Have you ever felt the layers beneath your skin?

Layers that hide behind this thick

Bruised, scarred but touched, loved exterior

Ones that have developed over the years

Through the smiles and pain

Mostly, the pain.

Layers that shield you from...

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Karen Leigh Nicholls, will you be my wife.
If the answer is yes, then you know it's for life.
We had been friends for a while now,
I think it's time for our marriage vow.

To the complete delight...

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Part Three

Did you not notice then
How uneasy I was in the eye of abundance
How hiding from the surfeit of joy
From whose very object I
Learned not to cry

And so all through with fear
Fear opening fresh fear
Without...

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As thin as water
Swimming in the rampant blood clots of ice
Lumps and warts, primordial abomination in an absinthe glass
Down in one and down with thirty. Those filthy hands
The snail paths which ooze from each digit....

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For once I want the sun, but I'm denied it,
Don't need to keep the rain out; I provide it,

I know that people think I'm too compliant,
The real trouble is, I'm too reliant,

Simply can't stand this...

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Drained to my very heart by our slow-paced arrival, 
          I wander through tasteless decor to the metal arches 
      ...

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Single sexy stuttering simple sue,
Loved lean laughing lisping Lou,
She spoke softly slow sentences,
Lou lisped loud without pretences!

Often were out on romantic dates,
By heart and mind such good mates,
Joked and laughed their whole time,
Spoke in stutters...

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Do you really want to give up?
You must not, because hope is not lost 
It keeps us going
Aren’t you taking the easiest way by acting like that? I think so!
You just want to pin your...

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Mother died at the honorable age of one hundred and one
Born a Gemini, she died under a different constellation
So familiar to us, her old life was different from everyone
Without frills, pale pretences or any mental...

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