Long Quantified Poems

New England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.

She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...

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To Ecological Greens
concerned about tolerating
evangelical 
monotheistic Red intolerance
of unstraight
unwhite
unmale
unhealthy
unsafe
panentheistic EarthDays
and dualdark wiki-nights
potentially bicameral
bipartisan
bisexual
binomial
neurosystemic cooperative regenerations
of win/win resonant
robust images

Any nonbinary person
all growed up
in a homophobic
straight
white
male anthrosupremacist monoculture
must not fail to see
to hear
to smell
to feel

Will have trouble...

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What if political parties
all over Earth
were invited together to sign a covenant
at a We The BiCameral People Party;

A covenant to never nominate or endorse or vote for a candidate for public office
without economic
and political
and environmental
and...

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Did you notice?

What you have for breakfast,
despite what Mom said,
is probably less important than who you do 
and do not 
have breakfast with,
and why

The brand and make and year of your car
are less significant to...

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We met upon the stairs. In a brief moment of chance, I did not allow myself to be drawn away by other brighter, faster burning lights which held a momentary fascination and then flicker away...

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Under the dark sky of 2025, where the Genetic Basin pulses
like an overloaded server beneath the shadows of a Sulimi,
my thoughts flow like a faulty algorithm through 6G networks,
whistling beneath faces lit by screens, with...

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Vae victis! Her quick eyes spy out the field.
Reconnoitred, the foe's dispositions have been noted, 
quantified, assessed. The forces of order
and tidiness, in neat array, 
perfect their alignment, await onslaught.
The sentinels stand guard:
A pot of...

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Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die 
An emboldened range of rude retorts refuting...

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To see ecstatic Earth
is to no longer see our home
as merely static,
framed,
quantified,
commodified

Yet, 
To see all physical nature as dynamically changing,
ecstatically or more BusinessAsUsual,
is not necessarily to suddenly discover stones
are animistically organic
and ego-conscious.

To find a surrounding...

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Fun time and flight

A clock from Salvador Dali warped and draped in place
                      surreally...

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Psychologists,
sociologists,
anthropologists,
and theologians, curiously,
are more likely to confuse the tragic end of humanity
with the end of EarthLife's developmental 
and sacred significance.

Environmentalists,
holistic ecologists,
integral biologists,
students of pre-historic religious re-connecting rapture
are less likely
to collapse the sacred rebirthing value of...

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Silent One

Silent One rises with the solar system dawn
Drawn by solace in the quiet morning  
Riding on the gravitational waves 
Through numbered stars through dark matter there

Watching zeros mix, blend into the cosmic mist...

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A - rresting beneath dancing fingered fronds palming zephyr's touch.
B - each building sand castles throughout dawning sunlight.
C - rumbling granules of fate in the noonday sun.
D - esigns creating a new look ashore.
E -...

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Avant Garde declarations of flawed misunderstanding
Ethereal hand's star cast thought's scattered materialised being
From under stones crept
To kindle fires of imagination's spawning grounds
Turned over in tumultuous caverns of repressed understanding
Unbound suddenly as spring leaves answer a...

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Cherry blossoms, with a mundane grace,
Drift    d  o    w      n
Like hollow trees, in a world's embrace,
      Routine weeps,...

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Unseen 
vanishing, 
thin-skinned, blood-bone, 
broken-token people 
pokin' while invokin' 
spoken and unspoken words 
that slap at fat-back pimps 
gone insane on cocaine rain; 
bendin' over, slippin in, 
pasty, wasted, 
hurtin' urchins of the street: 
The...

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Unseen 
vanishing, thin-skinned, blood-bone, 
broken-token people
pokin' while invokin'
spoken and unspoken words 
that slap at fat-back pimps 
gone insane on cocaine rain; 
bendin' over, slippin in,
pasty, wasted,
hurtin' urchins of the street:
The spawn of dawn's humanity
in feral...

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Sitting alfresco, with a screen open to the Daily
On a fashionable stretch of street
Lined with expensive everything where
Scents of coffee roast, mingled with vanity
Shiny hair flicking insults and smiles, as waiters
Danced between tables of note

Such...

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Let’s take this outside
Your turn to be objectified
Necktied offside and brutified
Come step outside
Where you can no longer hide
Now you and me can collide

You’re worse than godzilla’s bride
Torpefied and vilified
Uglified, mean and evil-eyed
Always snide and undignified

Ringside,...

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Burdened waves slow motioned,gently lift tired eyelids-whispers.
Speaks an incomprehensible raspy language to subconscious;
Mind unaware,eyes chained to where blue meets azure.
Mourning waves wailing past sorrows unforgettable.

Scorching sun above witness, time's healing ointment
Calms sloshing, turns to gurgling,...

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© Ben Burton Feb 5, 2014

I view beauty with desire
But am seen through abstract eyes
Which begats a mystery
For I don't try to be that kind

The shattered pieces in my wake
As tea leaves wither in the...

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A Rictameter Times Three




Aware 
Like in awake 
As one self is to be 
Diversified in all its ways 
Complexity forever simplified 
Incorporated primal truth 
With center quantified 
To complement 
Aware 
~
Content 
Beyond relaxed 
A soul...

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Trump Poked and Poked

Around and around Trump joked and joked;
Various parts of her body poked and poked;
Of contention bone;
Saw face in drone;
Suffered from Trumpitis so he had crooked.

Jim Horn

For himself wanted something odd built;
So he...

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To utilize this is our life's 
responsibility
For in disguise opposition an 
opportunity
This is a chance to prove our 
ability
Of what use could be storms 
 impunity
It cannot create a sail to 
celebrity


No fact has the...

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Arose before dawn
Smelled the coffee
Fed my dog  
Worked in a workout 
Showered and dressed 
Drove ahead of the pack
First in the building 
Dove headfirst into work 
Developed and crunched concepts 
Made calls and commitments
Met...

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