Long Reshuffle 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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Trial and Terror

Tim had tried most everything else

	waiting hoping procrastinating

		meditation introspection ‘extro-neglection’

defence contraptions of all sorts and the 

	whole self-help spirit enclave palaver and yet 

		he still felt like a cadaver a rotting ‘thing’ of...

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Politics is a cat-and-mouse poker game,
	     Some play it well,
others not so much
Amateurs show their hidden hand,
they got an easy-to-spot tell
But the old pros are the best cons,
selling you wet dreams...

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FLOODED CLOSET

flooded closet,
got your attention?
washer; and dryer
sent to the dungeon, well
the garage. not our fault.
phone call received in ninety-three,
wouldn’t insure us —
the flood, you know…
have you guessed?
previous occupants.
of course a bit of common sense
supported us.

closet...

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             Cream of fire, liquicksilvered star incendiaire, 
           leaves imprint for the World...

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These days happiness comes in packets of twelve
Twenty-first century serotonin is sugar-coated
Forget Skittles
We swallow small rainbows twice daily 
To reshuffle the skewed chemicals in our brains. 

Welcome to Generation Z. 
You’ll fit in here, as...

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Hollow place, crawlspace, where no emotion returns alive,

Broken or calloused, which shall it be, if I had the choice to make

And what is darkness to me or to them, as I attempt to find the...

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IF I FIND A QUEEN 

If I but find a queen,
to mother my unborn,
The earths will gossip
My love to the heavens.

Birds shall fly in troops,
Leaving no foe behind.
And the wind will dance,
To the lovely tunes
Compose...

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Why is life so complex?
Why am I feeling vexed?
Pulling one way,
Not feeling one has any say,
Too much involved
For the problem to be solved,
Not wanting to disrupt,
Feeling all is corrupt,
Fire stations closing across the land,
Waving goodbye...

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In time, days, months to years

Is the failure of relationships
In January to July to December

And the shallow of rivers
In July, August to September

The destruction by earthquakes
In January, February to December

The reshuffle of accidents
In lakes, roads...

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In time, days, months to years

Is the failure of relationships
In January to July to December

And the shallow of rivers
In July, August to September

The destruction by earthquakes
In January, February to December

The reshuffle of accidents
In lakes, roads...

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Everybody was in hurry to unpack
the sins and reshuffle the names
of burns, by taking a holy dip
in mauve lake. I wanted to defang them.
Acid attack had the inversion effect
on the expressions.

It was an obscene vision
unrolling...

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Horn of Africa. Famine, drought and conflict have left millions of people needing food, water and healthcare. The UN says that in the...

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Mind Trap

Thoughts racing in and out 
of my mind
Like a movie that sometimes 
needs to rewind 
Bits and pieces like a gigsaw
Puzzle
That will sooner or later 
fit together and never
reshuffle 
Sometimes it’s really scary 
to...

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