Long Pretension Poems
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Conspiring MusesI've heard about non-violent communication
but wasn't deeply listening.
It didn't seem to have much of a plot,
a lack of creative tension,
drawing my full survivalist attention.
So this is probably all wrong
that I'm not owning my conspiring dissonant...
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Categories:
pretension, anti bullying, community, god, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
The Soul Errand and Other PoemsThe 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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Categories:
pretension, africa, beautiful, beauty, child, death of a
Form:
Ballad
Mating of the Rich and FamousI once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating,
or trust-I would have been rightly confused
Here hangs a long line of slime, almost...
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Categories:
pretension, animal, beauty, cat, dance, love, nature,
Form:
Prose
An Inspiraling ExpirationIt might become too ironically
and iconically embareassing
to admit
I am taking a (s)hit
while exploring
my latest
and perhaps final
nutritional surmise
compressing peak climax
surprise
A well-capitalized
Systematic Theology
of EcoLogical Systems
is not such
an inviting much
of a moving title
Yet herein
we might...
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Categories:
pretension, earth, environment, health, humor, passion, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Shoveling I-CyclesHe said he planned to freeze to death.
Did he mean to have his body frozen?
Stored to hatch again later,
leftovers out of time's deep freezer of waiting.
No, not that.
He responds with undeniable dismissal,
this would not be...
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Categories:
pretension, death, deep, life, love, nature, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Be Not Deceived, Hamas, God Is Not Mocked Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived, Hamas: God cannot be mocked. Galatians 6:7.
The one who sows according to his sinful nature, from that nature will
reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit will reap
eternal...
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Categories:
pretension, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
To My Lovely Late GrandmotherAs day fall and night came, we used to gather around my grand mother. That was our
favourite moment during the day. There was a sort of connection between us, the night and
my grandmother....
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Categories:
pretension, dedicationme, world, night, grandmother, grandmother, me, night,
Form:
I do not know?
America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentmentare you free, humanity, by power of love
or in chain by love of power or by lack of it?
a student of The School of Resentment asks…
back in time,
at such dominant spaces
called...
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Categories:
pretension, community, home, native american, natural disasters, power,
Form:
I do not know?
Complex Simplicity a Madman Attempts To Understand DivinityI HAD A DREAM . I know I know its been said before
But hear me out before you close the world
Views away into bleak abyss one where we all fight
Over who is wrong and what...
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Categories:
pretension, absence, adventure, age, allusion, angel, anxiety, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Mankind Thru the Looking Glass Part 1MANIPULATION AND WAR’S SPECTRE
When races, politics and religions,
Are grimly brandished as righteous reasons,
To bloody calm fields and serene seasons,
Tis madness, paranoia…delusions.
A mans grandiose superiority lore,
Humanity’s stinking, putrid, sore,
To slaughter the blameless, to covet more,
To...
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Categories:
pretension, visionarydark, dark,
Form:
I do not know?
Two Line ThoughtsSometimes you must lose all you felt you once needed
But all you ever feel is cheated
You can't pull diamonds from the sky
There is no constellation prize
You’ll never be happy, never complete
To you there’s only a...
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Categories:
pretension, boyfriend, drink, fruit, garden, green, kiss, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless In Whereis Part 1I’m stealing through a twilit realm, the ancient pale of Whereis,
passing chambers of an Heiress
(though no need to feel embarrassed)
through a magic mystic mirror hanging curtainless.
A glimpse near naked alleyways (denuded by the moon) ex-
poses...
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Categories:
pretension, fantasy, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Enlightening ReligionsReligiosity is the culture-bound pretension
of religious function.
Religious is to spiritually healthy function
as religion
creed
faith system, idolatrous or divine,
is to spiritual form,
structure,
ecosystemic or pathologically other-unwise.
Spirit is to natural health functions,
mental and physical and sacred,
as nature
ecology
active positive hope...
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Categories:
pretension, earth, education, health, integrity, math, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Silver StrandsEmbarrassed of her age and getting no praise,
she cut her gray hair with a furious face;
oh, it seemed the color of glittering gold
strewn with silver curls! What made her think
she was unattractive and way too...
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Categories:
pretension, confusion, fear, friendship, romance, age, age, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Clocks Ticking To Politicking(Read later stanzas for more of the humour part ; parody of politics)
I Can't think well of a democracy
if nepotism and false promises
are part and parcel of its idiosyncrasy
A system of governance can't appeal to...
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Categories:
pretension, international, parody, political,
Form:
Rhyme
CantThey’re laying down the rules; and don’t you be a drag
Claiming they are not the douche; but are they perhaps the bag?
Does pretension breed contention; and do their restrooms surely smell;
And when they look to...
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Categories:
pretension, allegory
Form:
Rhyme
Thoughts In a Truck-Stop DinerThis place is tucked out of the way,
across river from the city,
most folks don’t even know it’s here,
and I suppose that’s a pity.
Maybe the truck-stop that it serves
is what drives some people away,
but their hash-browns...
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Categories:
pretension, america, food, jobs, people, perspective, society, work,
Form:
Rhyme
I Think Therefore I AmI THINK THEREFORE I AM
"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda
Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery
I got mites and bugs living in my head--
infesting my mind. They... daring...
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Categories:
pretension, character, how i feel, identity, inspiration, life,
Form:
Free verse
Angellic Joy!Sweet were those childhood times
No worries no fear, just a carefree life
Mother’s lap seemed the treasure of world
Rejoicing each day with heartfelt joy
Happiness needed no reason, it was inside
Talking the heart away while spreading smile
No...
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Categories:
pretension, children, happiness, lifechild, life, world, heart, childhood,
Form:
Sestina
My God, Thank You For Cheering Me UpSeptember 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Mark 4-6
Key Verse– Mark 6:50 For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is...
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Categories:
pretension, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
If Ever I Had a Country : Xlvi and XlviiIF ever I had a country : XLVI - XLVII
XLVI
IF ever I had in Andromeda a country
And if ever by rights I were the Chief Collision-Conglomerate Six-Star Plenipotentiary
I'd moot and execute a permanent plan for...
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Categories:
pretension, allegory, destiny, future, humanity, racism, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Crowning Glory: Co-Write With CarolynAs the rooster crows:
A look in the pool mirrored a perfect mop
At times of frizzy hair or defiant shaggy tresses
Ohhh the satisfaction at the sight
And yabba, dabba, doo!! echoed loud...
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Categories:
pretension, hair,
Form:
Free verse
Judas Kisseverything you’ve said
whispers round to me
here now I sit
this warning is free
dead are my dreams
in your pretense of care
sweeping the misery
...
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Categories:
pretension, friendship, lossheart, heart, weather,
Form:
Verse
Crowning Glory--Co-Write With PaulAs the rooster crows:
A look in the pool mirrored a perfect mop
At times of frizzy hair or defiant shaggy tresses
Ohhh the satisfaction at the sight
And yabba, dabba, doo!! echoed loud and clear
Triumphant male...
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Categories:
pretension, hair, humor,
Form:
Verse
Bait
Title 2/ BAIT
Quote: Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake
The transiting sun shines on you deceptively,
spreads shifting spectrum in chameleon sky,
the masked faces designed by innate ingenious...
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Categories:
pretension, analogy, betrayal, feelings,
Form:
Free verse