Long Recuse Poems

Let the drums beat until it release the number sheet
Let the drums beat until it rip out my heart's seat
Let the drums beat until blood spill in the street
Let the drums beat until justice is...

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I’ve been cutting Peter’s hair for a year. When covid lockdown occurred, I learned to cut my brother’s hair - and yes, he still has two ears. When I first met Peter, he had a...

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The show must go on from evening till morn; the show must go on in the midst of the storm, get the manuscript and recuse that man from the pulpit, get the director, producer, crew...

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Under your twisted lips, runs a wooden tongue called time, you have drained the city of all that is divine,and your tongue is rolling over into your head as if you are getting ready to...

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You continue to play the game and looking for someone to blame
You continue to play the game when everything around you is so lame
The days are sprinting by with a profound message from the anxious...

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No Illuminating Masked Gloves at Our Summer Break

A Summer Song
Oh the summer of 2020
Covid, rampant
Mask the unmask
Where? Them or not
Politics or science
We're all going through a summer break
No public gatherings
Funerals or weddings
No more gatherings for...

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The sound of water gushes down the big dirty river
beating on the backs of stubborn rocks whose root
is buried beneath the pregnant ground
penetrating the deep and listening to its musical sound
Water  flows intensely down...

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The feeling is deep inside 
Calling as a helpless innocent guilt
It has become too much for me
Falling down like a cracking mountain
I imagine it as a scarlet, an unclenched stain.
Becoming a slave to my freedom...

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Oh Spirit of Love; lost ... far, and apart; away from any abundant freedom, 
genuinely aeolian, without-You, soiled, sick, dying-naked cold alone, this is all 
of me broken of-heart; everything I can-give, here I am,...

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His policy views shift randomly
with the ever changing political winds
Whatever he ousted yesterday — 
tomorrow, presto change-o ... 
tweetle de dum, it’s blowing back in

Mirror, mirror chimera,
a thousand faces that constantly change
Mirror, mirror chimera,
your countenance...

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My muse did her fealty recuse
My honor she did stealthily reconnoiter
My discourse was grounds for divorce
Finding my writing no longer enlightening
My blithe parlance no longer my mistress did entrance
With my prose she did forthrightly dispose
Each...

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I think of her so often, wondering
if she is real.  I see myself
transcending time, creating
as a god might choose, from some
untouchable ideal, somewhere,
in surreptitious flashes,
that emerge at twilight, quite
unplanned, uncertain, yet persistent.
She disappears as...

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I need you
To clutch me tight and
Wipe my tears away.
Telling me 
‘I know it looks bad but it’ll get better’.
 
I need hope
To come along and
Recuse me from 
The ceaseless
Pit I recurrently fall into.
 
I...

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Comece agora o seu dia da recusa
seu dia do não
Sábado Dia do não 
Domingo, 
e todos os dias
faça do não a sua rotina!

Faça do sábado de hoje
De todos os dias
o dia do NÃO
Eu te peço.

Diz...

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THE   CURSE   OF   FOG


The curse of fog
Descended while our boat was  wearing,
Before we had time
To  fix  our  bearing : 
A last glimpse of lighthouse far,
Final...

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2018 Recuse Tudo
Seja Independente

Na vida ou nos negócios,
Recuse às verdades acabadas; 
Recuse às espadas que não ferem 
e aquelas eu ferem; recuse...
Nunca fale com otimismo cego
que ignora a enormidade das tarefas 
ou as pedras do...

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Christmas for stolid, hermetic recluse
Recidivistic mind all sentimentality doth refuse
Token, lifeless symbols; pageantry will recuse
Pawned, second-hand trinkets now in disuse
Barnacled to limbs drooping to spindling angles obtuse
Garnishments that jilting time accrues
Hung sloppily, stunted timber's temporal...

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So many people complain when they lose

To gain better rankings, judges they schmooze

And if they don’t place, their egos are bruised

They even use blogs simply to recuse

To some extent, these attacks may amuse

But their true...

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My muse blew a fuse
Without excuse fealty did recuse
In jilting fashion without compassion 
Tendered passion did stingily ration
Lofty discourse from pen did divorce
With no remorse absconded every resource
My inspiration turned to perspiration
Hopeless itinerant somewhat penitent
The...

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Take me with...

Relay the melody in glitter,
I can reach the zenith 
of providence
Our times and steps pledge to meet,
Show me width and breadth to seize
I swear to you, our light shall do
 
Peel a straw...

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Nos tempos de pandemia

Em todos os tempos,
nos tempos de pandemia,
recuse às verdades acabadas; 
recuse às espadas que não ferem 
e aquelas que ferem; recuse...
nunca fale com otimismo cego 
que ignora as pedras do caminho.

Recuse os...

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Will life return with the morning sun?
Will its very existence by sought by one?
Who will win and who will lose?
It now has come your time to choose.

As darkness sweeps across the land.
We form small groups...

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Seasons bring ... the nights, Machiavelli's
Corvus corax or ravens, hints, rallies
birds of good and evil, biblically,
and birds of a feather, ominously,
fed Elijah; 1 Kings 17: ... good,
left Noah; Genesis 8: ... bad, withstood
words by De...

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Old cotton knee-Lenths
smell; an old book of poetry smell,
Unseen socks
between the matrass and the ground floor
of nowhere,
where discarded apparel through the ages,
molders unread.

Daily we wash the stains off
our words,
once in a while
we recover them from
a...

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Feel like I'm caved in; pectus excavatum; not worn, definitely weathered
Am I a broken man, a wrecked machine; that does not deserve to be treasured?
My heart feels apprehension; sensing deplorem
My arms are raised to this;...

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