Long Reconfigure Poems

Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland 
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union 
aimed at the destruction 
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...

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Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.

Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.

Gross violation of human rights
blatantly carried out
courtesy diabolical...

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And so I ponder my frailities as give giveness to the/they that are in response to my/your parental misgivings, the way windward wade their roughened cinder complexities confided to an annotated disgfiured desire-repost postured, annotized...

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26.

A stationary bicycle
Never travels very far.
Nor sniffs the meadow flowers
Or sets the evening star.

It is far from me to criticize
The direction that you ought...
But it seems a hellenic tragedy...
Being tied to just one spot.

 ...

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Five words on infinity and beyond

Dancing with life the jester wise fool majestic clown
plays tricks illusions wisdom at the court of living madness
dissolves uncertainty’s conclusions spins and cycles
on fines lines suspended from seeming polar opposites
complements...

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How do we uproot ourselves from the earth to fully ascend to the heaves above, 
how do we reconfigure our neurological pathways to convince our heads to unplug from the system, 
our hands to put...

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You raised me up,
	then brought me down.
In between we loved, fought and got caught
	in one another’s web of insincerity and deep-felt need.
The spaces were filled with warmth, passion
	and a chill that could turn your toes...

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My heart, 
a place of solitude, 
my place of worship, 
a place of pleasure, 
place of leisure, 
treasure of love, 
where God resides, 
my happy place, 
hidden within.
At this sanctuary, 
not all is allowed to...

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Chances and choices to grow
Chances and choices to taste
Chances and choices to blow and throw
Chances and choices to invest or waste

Same chances for Tom and John
Same chances for Mary and Martha
Same chances for June and...

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With life nothing but a tired old story, I was waiting, always awaiting;
Checking off the pages that life has to me been sending;
Unimportant, I mark each page, with life so boring.

But, always with a wish...

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It rained last night
and it will rain again and again
after each dry spell -
the planet has always understood
the benefits of hydration.

The ground of being, being mind-clay
will reconfigure a muddy tale,
then poetry (or whatever speaks
in riddles...

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If heaven were to fall into hell 
I'd surf the spiritual wave 
generated by this cataclysmic 
tsunami, and ride it to sin's origin. 
Dissect the specific parts of soul's DNA, 
reconfigure the connection that 
Adam's...

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The clichéd cavalier 
clings to his 
carbon copy life with 
constrained complexity 
and settles 
for conventionality. 

Miss originality 
and Master clarity 
dismantle, reconstruct 
withered concepts 
within a cul-de-sac 
of ubiquitous creativity 
by alienating themselves 
from...

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Stripping away layers of confusion
Staring into the eyes of my lover
Stripping in the dark for my man
Needing him to hold me as we make love
As we embark on this journey
Searching for a life paved in...

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That is one thing about rigor:
It can Intact Man disfigure;
Like a cell phone reconfigure 
The Stout left A Sorry Figure…

You won’t yourself in public show;
Not a new thing in you did grow; 
Slaving at a...

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Ever changing, always different
Never know what to predict

Expectations driving nowhere
Confusion forever plaguing within

Reaching, grasping for familiar
Nothing is ever all that's found

This unsuspected masquerading
Creeping suddenly into my world

Now here it is plainly upon me
Screaming, screaming, silently...

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