Long Reworded Poems

“Never forget 
everything Hitler did 
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious 
verboten spins askew 

“We can and we must 
write in the...

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I’m stuck.
My mouth tries to speak my thoughts.
My creative process is buried in the muck. 
My tongue is in tangled up knots.
I long so terribly to tell you how I feel.
Although, every time I try,...

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“Ceasing thinking, begin feeling ~
Rapture of bliss beats appealing”
- quote by poet


Let us today discuss divine energy
Innate, immediate and intimate
Needless confusion abounds
So let us get facts straight

Made in image of God
Our true essence is living...

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by Michaelw1two

Antilegomena, a direct transliteration from the Greek, refers to written texts whose authenticity or value is disputed


Exclusion, the reasoned gist, of this nation’s present trends,
revised, reworked, reworded, towards what particular ends;
enticingly so, provision’s rend,...

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Where lies free will, if we be not awake,
enslaved by senses, in bondage to mind,
fears and desires unable to forsake,
floundering in darkness, as do the blind?
We know not who we are and yet we spar,
questioning...

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If with each breath, we can erase our past,
relearning by touch, tenderness of love,
with choice to dwell in heart, the die is cast,
to invoke God’s grace that pours from above.
Reworded, let’s say, we carry no...

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Where have all the poets gone?
eight months’ time passing and counting.
Seems long time ago, as we were thrusted
and stuck in a labyrinth waiting to exhale.
 
Poets, like me, went to Poetry Open
held in book stores,...

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before we amble
muse upon the preamble
that entity ascension seeking
is encased in mind body matrix limiting

we have for engagement two polarities 
external turbidity internal serenity
former is domain of our ego
latter love osmosis slow

on an as is...

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Once upon a time, basking in sublime gardens of Eden
blissful essence of presence did as was bidden
soul ingrained with delight from head to toe
imbibing divine elixir, joyful heart aglow
humming a happy melodious verse
in resonance with...

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Seeing yesterday's mistakes repeat themselves

Looking for hope like looking for elves

Lessons learned reversing like a mirror

Judging without considering the interior

Basic teachings lost like a dream that was nothing but a blur

Greed and false promises continuing...

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Presence complete yet in form feeling incomplete 
Surrenders imagined knowing at an unknown God’s feet
We must be truthful about this, having not seen the unseen
That in timeless time, in as ordained, we may reclaim soul’s...

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To sound the right musical note,
string of the guitar is made taut,
so likewise for our light to shine,
trials we face, make us self-taught.

Stuporous is mind, heart unkind,
insipid stance, clumsy our dance,
floundering about as though blind,
mindful...

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Sin is but ignorance, so let’s erase it,
by examining where lies the root of thought
that lamp of eternal truth be in us lit.
Fear mirrors desire, a web in which we’re caught,
so if we reduce attachments...

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desire and aversion
attracting and repelling
sets up a cycle of creation
preservation and destruction 
attached to ego like glue
causing our suffering

we as an entity
conjuring this drama
on choosing to become still
simply observing the flow of life
vibrant and yet...

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Untested remains strength of our core
Unless we face trials & tribulations
Yet in the continuum immersed therein
We face anguish beyond imagination 

Even if our resolve wavers we recognise
That in the void of inner silence
Wherein immune form...

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Softened attention, our meditation,
in a space-time dissolved continuum,
wherein presence shows no hesitation,
to shed off ego spawned residuum.

Reworded, let’s say there’s nothing we do,
except to remain poised thus in silence,
mood and mode joyous as bliss beats...

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These words I write rest, riff, repeat half and whole notes within.
It vibratos, quavers, and resonants in your noggin.
Strumming soberly on my-six standard 
snapped, worn and improvised heart strings.
Chords tuned over life’s onerous tread
Tightened and...

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Every line has been used
Every song has been sung
Yet perfection eludes all
Each and every one

Rehashed and reworded
They misses their mark 
The plagiarized love poem
Reaching out for a heart

It sounds great to the receiver
As we hoped...

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