Long Selfhood Poems

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She is fire
Raging red and hot through all that surrounds her.
She entices you, drawing you in,
Like a moth to her flame,
Just to singe your wings.
She does not discriminate,
Nobody is safe from her unyielding heat.
She promises...

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……A lone survivor of a plane crash

A man of sound and reason, 
   standing tall and proud, 
But a voice of lies and madness, 
   whispering words of doubt. 
His mind...

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It’s not just bricks and mortar
Nor a distant memory 
But the ground roots of our livelihood
And our future destiny. 

As this place prepares to close 
When the final bell will sound 
To mark the end...

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Squarely conscientious, I unwittingly
sanction selfhood acutely triangulate
courtesy webbed geometry jeopardize,
galvanize pluck nudging contrived arc,
virtually courting temptation aware,

sans impetuousness compromises an
anonymous commingling, nonetheless
electronic fraternization enthralls mine
plucky chutzpah possibility intrigues
yours truly sporting impish grinning

smile across world wide...

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Please pardon mine assertion
I dared to surmise
familiarity with me, 
an avid reader and prolific writer
(mainly to appease personal pleasure)
thus upon embarking upon
reaching out, your curiosity piqued.

Daily onslaught from schoolyard 
punkish bullies ace
thus, storybooks provided 
haven...

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(A Spoon River Poem)

You loved me well, you loved me long,
even with joy fading from my eyes,
my beauty your heart's silent song,
and sorrow hidden in burnished skies.

Six strapping sons feathered our nest,
pride your meat, and...

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Please forgive me my love for I am not in my right mind
dysphoria has taken over me. It's a merciless disease that shatters my liveliness
do not think a single time that you've caused this ailment...

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The sky was brushed by flame
and all of nature round about
seemed to joyously shout
the Divine ineffable name./

Orange, green and pulsating violet appeared
achingly wondrous - radiantly tiered.
It was as if the very soul
of the Absolute mightily...

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Tireless Universe
                    by Odin Roark

Time defies denial,
Knowing well its empirical presence
Will never be of absence.

Dense as...

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Library ~ daytime, empty, shelves are stacked
book for every reason, season, nothing lacks
waiting for the internet, it's Oh so-o-o fast
and my mind might diminish, with the facts!

Speed one ~ and even reading, can't sit back
I'm...

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Your poetry is dark, Mark Strand.
I want to emulate it as I hate
each line.  I want to cast it out,
then hold it to my breast
as the defeated one who knows
I could have said it...

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Lightening all you have betrayed
Enlighten the darkness in your brain
Illuminate all you can perceive
From contamination to disease

The voices of hunger will remain
Seeking the power to obtain
A grip on the things that scare you most
To weaken...

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It happens,
you are no longer clouded by flesh,
your verge shifts,
a million miles is but an inch.

The bright brim of an ocean of Consciousness
becomes the light of the stars,
and that light is the mind, not your...

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Creatures, great and small, perceive us
for they are a part of the matrix of looking
but the planet is incapable of looking at all.

What is this 'looking' we do?
Better to explain what it is not.
Minds sees...

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It took me time to embellish 
myself
And long to reach you!

And there I stand confronting 
you and lionise,
Behaving uncontrived and 
candid!

And now you waste golden 
moments talking to my better 
half,
Bereft me and become 
nonpareil!

Your...

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Never in those sizzling conflicts
displaying the pink eyes
you were able to reach me.
Was it metagenesis,
forgetting your selfhood?

Fragments of a beast were floating on sea.
Was umblicus of death broken
in the crotch of a mother?
Lay the corn...

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MIRRORS
face to face
 expressions
of nature
 emboldened
to catch
&  explore

a singular
  intensity
of
self examination
so
stimulating
 looking
&
confront us
  with crucial
selfhood

perturbed
 its
surrounding status
&
credibility
 crumbling
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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