Long Quagmires Poems

One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating  

Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements

Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom

Is to explore together
how and...

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Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight


The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me 
With my horse’s pace and that of...

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Experience v Theory,
like Both/And inducted feelings v. Either/Or deductions,
like Internal Information v External ReConstructions,
like Memory v ReImaging,
like Cause/Effect v DNA of causal-effective nest 
of resilient Golden WinWin Theory

Western nature v spirit theories v Eastern nondual...

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Pig plop at eighty degrees is a synonym of doubt but double octave sploosh is a great interjection into the bowl. Wow. Flush flashing fakery freely framing frogs fingerspelling forged formats. And a deliberate rake...

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Our Constitution, page-by-page, provides a guide from age-to-age.
As citizens our views consist of strict or loose constructionists.
Yet, we should keep - we can agree - a free, but just, society
Though Freedom isn't strictly free, we...

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The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal rhythms. 

From the The Milky Sea Phenomenon, a sight captured...

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Of pale melancholy
And the infinite fall 
Of broken machinery 
Cast upon vast shores 
Decimation reservation

The prodigal son returns 
Jagged reigns of jaded egos 
Amber suns stretching upon seas of sanctuary 
Blue oysters cast a cult...

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The powers that be, undefined, ruthless, opaque authority 
Shapeless, bodiless, upstanding folk, coercing the majority 
Overseeing applications, supplications, ensuring conformity 
Specialists in quagmires, minefields, esoteric bureaucracy. 

The powers that be, model citizens, high ranking royalty...

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She opened her fragile eyes only to see a tensed face,
Anxiously staring back at her, as if in a daze.

She danced in her tiny frock, without a worry in the world
She was after all a...

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Ragged

Ragged heartbeats,
Shut in
But not 
 Shut out,
Tattered heartbreak,
Tragedy 
 Flung 
  From high towers
Swooping down in towering tornados
Descending

Ascending from foul marshes
 Quick sand
  Stalking careless footsteps -
Stealthy quagmires – fetid slime -
 Like...

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The Journals of the 87th Street Precinct is an  eyewitness account of the evolution of a revolution in America!\

Except: Pigs and Panthers
         ...

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Before you turn those sacred pages,
And corner me to a sinner's numbness,
And strike the balances as raged sages,
Remember I have touched holiness.
Before you strike similes with a smile,
And make prayers as heavy perfumed incense,
And speak...

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Now life spurns me, 
granite and absolute; 
flinches at my touch, 
hardens visibly at my voice, 
morphed to dry-ice opiate in my presence. 

Avoidance of the plague, 
ducks and dives prizefighterly, 
evasive bob and weave,...

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In the quagmires of the hell’s I’ve come across here on this plant;
Small pieces of my being were left behind that now need finding.
And as try to bring it back I can remember some possibilities...

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Walk carefully upon this muddy road,
Lest quagmires snag,firmly grab hold.

No outlet is nearing end,
Lifes course running short,
Precious hearts to mend.

Trace steps closely ,avoid tiny cracks,
Ground feet firmly,lock on moral tracks.

Clear fallen brush, pave this rock...

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I have often found myself sinking in the quagmires of life;
Horrified as many I traveled with accepted its inevitabilities
I would often relive each circumstance minute by minute;
Hoping somehow it would help me to understand but...

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The gravity of the wave of deceit has pulled political integrity
To its lowest ebb and flow, smothering morality with quagmires
Of electorial power abuse and sarcastic expositions of vanity.
Republic--Democratic--ideas, once held in high esteem
Have become veiled,...

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Lives a poet in the United States
Who's sick and tired of insolent ingrates
She went on a diet
And thinks you should try it
It doesn't involve the food on your plates

You're not allowed to talk of politics
Can't...

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we settle into our lonely together
dozens of adrift souls
drifting through the city on half-worn brake pads
ears turned away 
from keening car neighbors

they catterwaul louder 
than the notes playing hopscotch
in the near-empty space
between my drooping eyelids...

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 Unto Zion I go to find my soul
 Journeying through Heavenly Abodes,
 where the Path is Electric like a Thunder Storm
 and True Jerusalem Ascends Forth,
 Ever-Upwards where the Sacred Resides
 I AM The...

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Marshy, muddy, like the alluvial soil after rains
Slippery, clutching, quaking, and giving way underfoot
Pulling the solitary wayfarers with vein-nerve strains
Pets and cattle, as though sailing on sinking boats, get hooked.

Is human kinship as smooth as...

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Unyielding purity, capable wonder, confident action,
Innocent query, unknowing wisdom, entitled arrogance.
An amiable nature, providing possibility.
A generous future, granting potency.

The quagmires of the mind are rendered powerless;
Evils of the world go unaccomplished.
Corruption is purified; The flame...

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On an empty page, my quill
Does not sit to quench
Its thirst to lessen this quandary
To let, nay make, quintessential 

Inroads, biding thy quiver 
Of lexiconical bolts; queuing
And firing forthwith rousingly formed quips
Onto this pulpy papery...

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corruption, discrimination, feelings, judgement, nonsense, poets, spoken word,

ScatterBrain/ Misdeeds! ©


From my scrambled mind brews quagmires of twaddle--- 
I try to assimilate wisdom with lyrics….  
My mouth slags ‘lost’ for proficient words ---
And fall short...

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Peace on earth I cherish so much without doubt
Even if rancour exist between many nations
Active participation in peace talks brings about
Cumulative efforts to end external aggressions
Existing between the Jews,Palestinians and other nations

Orchestrated by selfish interest,religious...

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