Long Rethought Poems

What if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?

Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in exchange for conserving an evolutionary win/lose model
serving industriously degenerating corporate...

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I sometimes see hints of sacred order 
in all people born equal.

We have equal rights to live,
to breathe,
to sustain our bodies and our families,
    neighbors within reach of influence
   ...

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Argh resolution between
     self and eldest
     dear daughter more remote,
now then locating

     a left handed monkey wrench,
cuz she feels this papa
  ...

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Living close to the ocean is my favorite place to be.
And adding the fact it is a small island, even better for me.

I love the constant breeze, that comes from everywhere,
One direction the ocean, the...

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Share with me,
if you could become so kind,
Which of all your lifetime actions
was not also a reaction?

Which thought
not also a polyphonic feeling
rethought
and stored in memory
across countless regenerations?

Share with me
if you would
and could
and should,
Which of your...

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Please excuse me for trying to pre-empt the censors that now live among us. I hope that my meaning is clear.

	A Much Better One

The world's always been, as it is now,
a very se***l place. Organisms,...

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A fluffy orange tabby cat visited my humble abode today
She wore absurd red knickers, and hat tilted a most genial way.

She gave a knock quite timidly, kindly invited herself in.
The reflection from her golden coat...

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A History of Easter
From God's point of view
By Franklin Price
4/14/2017

Through Adam's fault at Eve's behest
The Serpent's fruit was bit
Mankind was condemned for life
From just one taste of it

I threw them from the garden
Where all was...

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No Maria -
when a Bernstein motif lingers.
No rosary beads -
they'll simply slip 
through bourbon-stained fingers.
God carved the seven continents,
with skillful guise, 
and Puccini cries.
Adam's rib was imminent
when his chest burst splinters
into a scorned dodger's eyes.
No...

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SPECIFIC MOMENTS

visual language
  inspiration
in
retrospective

 contemporary
dreams
of an alternative
future
 a moment 
of
reckoning
 flooded
 into
the eye
once  moribund
now
 captivated
 encountering
 the beauty
of refinement

 to establish
affinities 
between
the sensitive
& the
 non-comprehensive

a turning point
a  narrative
of the a romantic
constantly
renewed
 in
the mind

a battleground
& clashing 
of styles
 a sign 
of prescience
& genius

 an indicator
of dialogue
in rethought
figuration
of
the
absurd


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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I figured I would go right up to heaven
So I was ready to die, wishing for it actually.
Expecting to see my relatives, and my favorite dogs

I closed my eyes begging for God to take me
But...

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Random thought on ten minute clock as been deleted and rethought
from a more steady mind then th one of mine
I held all those years ago and for the waisted time
you may have spent on that...

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All reciprocal love
        it's not the same ...

       Feeling love,
       if you can ... not
 ...

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I passed a street light with googles on,
A cheerful smile,
With a new hope,
Quite unknown about the world,
I kept on walking,
Unbothered about the cries around,
I kept on singing,
My feet swirled in their own flow,
Until I heard...

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BEAUTY & REFINEMENT

specific moments
forging
 a
visual
  language

inspiration
  gone mainstream
in
retrospective

an
  alternative
moment 
of
  reckoning
grown
  moribund

a
prestigious
 encounter
of
 ideas
 of beauty
& refinement
 dramatically
spot-lit

 in
truly mutual
  comprehension
 now disappear
from view

the clashing
  styles
a sign 
of the
 prescience
& genius
in
 dialogue
in
a spellbinding
astounding piece
off
 rethought
figuration

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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O child smile, speak, why afraid,
Utter a single word and wisdom might be laid in motion
But listen; don’t listen to these words,
Everyone listens to or sprout out of their untold tongue
But see what they fail...

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I’LL ORDER THE BEE’S KNEES IF YOU PLEASE

“oh man, really,  wake  up please”
There are women who will drive you to your knees
You can see it in their eyes they think they can control...

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I’LL ORDER THE BEE’S KNEES IF YOU PLEASE

“oh man, really,  wake  up please”
There are women who will drive you to your knees
You can see it in their eyes they think they can control...

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They proposed stabilization
Friction from the augers
Rotation
Caused one to ponder
Would such affect
Those ah yonder
Then in perfect diction
He said it as a predict
If thee surface of this
Slate should pop
It will create a lot of
Rocks
And if these rocks...

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When I joined the men's breakfast group,
There were 5 men. When first invited, I had
no interest in any Group that was not about the
Bible or prayer. I later rethought it and thought
Perhaps such a group...

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As the mighty vicious nasty queen she had lots of cattitude.
In case you have never had a haughty cat, it is a prissy attitude.
She ruled the throne room in a voice that was distinctive and...

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post-mortem note to mr. eliot

dearest thomas,
having lived long enough to see the
a-bomb drop, one wonders if you had
rethought your infamous ending 
to “The Hollow Men,”
for most certainly
the world will not go with a 
whimper,
we would...

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