Long Short term memory Poems

"You are a part of me
I do not yet know"
claims interdependent Valarie Kaur

And I wonder,
Is she speaking to me?
Or rhetorically asking any stranger
except me,
already known
because I feel her same unitarian way
already grown

Ego/Eco-centering balanced
symmetrically integral
as a...

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>Cool at Ipswich Hospital today.
I went for  CT scan result.  I say.
High up in the maternity block.
I shared a lift with an empty bed.
Considered laying, resting me head.
Porter smiled, and motioned no with...

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Why should both writers and/or poets just keep their writings and/or their
poetry just plain and simply easy to understand? What if you try to be so
creative and poetic but your readers do not understand a...

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Hovering beside a group of words,
Strategically aligned to make them meaningful,
Primitive noises and symbols are constructed,
Passed down from elders who are wise with knowledge,
Taught to use them for powerful communication,
Emotions stirred into structured but stiff...

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>Waiting rooms, an urge to write?

Why is it in a hospital waiting room?
I feel an urge to write.
I mean it’s a place to feel unwell.
Surely I should not want to write.

You see, when I am...

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I’m getting older - this fact I cannot deny
Not quite ready for the scrap heap or to give up life and die
My body isn’t quite the same; my boobies have gone south
But I keep on...

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How do I begin to describe you
Such an incredible person 
Yet even now you doubt your abilities
You lost your own mum when you were eight  - you never ever got over it
You worked all...

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My phone rings…. I answer it but say nothing as I don’t recognise the displayed number and I can only hear ‘white noise’ at the other end. Okay I admit I’m going deaf and will...

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It’s a messed up world out there, we all got trauma 
Real question is, do you avoid the drama?
When someone tells you secrets, do you blab em to the world?
Or keep ‘em locked up like you...

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Slap that cocktail shaker
Find the right fit and tap that baby together
Put a little bit extra in the slap
Mind picturing that ass-cheek reverb
Colors of spirit and mixers rush together
Creating works of art ia what I...

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I trusted all doctors, thought they know best
So many years learning, a noble quest
They want to do well by helping you
But from any kind of knowledge, evil can brew.

Scott was a dentist, a noble career
But...

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THE OLD INDIAN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



A story making the rounds  about an old apache
Who said, I remember everything thats happened to me
A New York newspaper picked up the curious news
Invited the Indian to  the...

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I’m sitting and waiting, to meet with my doc, 
The time passes slowly, while watching the clock.

I have a disease, and some days aren’t the best,
I swear some ones putting, me through my life’s test.

Won’t...

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On the way to the nursing home, we pass many beautiful sights. So many homes with pleasant yards, lawns, and flowers that delight. After so many days of rain then a little break, green everywhere...

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I'm more than half way to the gates
or so the statistics fancy to say.
Seen a lot but need to see a lot more
haven't suffered or laughed enough
need a few more scuffs and scars
need to grow...

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Large Darkness
I was very depressed in my teens after things happened
It was the incident with the big fat monster and her oven bun
She wanted the bun and not to put it in the bin
She was...

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She’s dead they said!
She I thought. Who is she?
I stared straight down at a frumpy old thing.
On the bed, a lump, so dead.

Was that me? I asked my spirit guide.
My guide laughed; he always loves...

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Why wait for a muse to get inspiration
When the words are there in your head
If not in the brain, perhaps in the heart
As seat of emotion and passionate drive
Where all feelings must escape...

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An article on the internet says
a recent review of roughly 100 studies
notes that while caffeine enhances+
physical, cognitive and motor performance, 
boosts short-term memory, problem solving,
decision making and concentration,
it eliminates a key portion of the
creative process....

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The roaches keep launching attacks
then scurrying back into Satan's dirty crack
covering their backs with the children of Gaza.

Launch then hide- launch then hide
when they lose ground, 
they call for a ceasefire.
Understand, there can never be...

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I hate sounding like a recorder
Knowing I am at the edge of my border
Always being served by a court order
Yeah, I have a mental disorder
Heck yeah, I suffer, I am bipolar

I stay up every night...

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INSIDE MY HEAD

I've grown old with grace with so much stuff in my head that it is overwhelming to remember
I've loved,
I've cried,
I've hated,
I've gotten on my knees and prayed,
I've done,
I've seen,
I've heard,
I wish I could’ve,...

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I'm in my room while I  listen to music while reading a good book or comic.  my desk lamp being the only thing that dimly illuminates my abode, the gentle rain over the...

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WhAt'S tHaT
Reeks HAVOK
It's like inhalen helilum

DELIRIUM

InToXiCaTiOn unconscious
Sleep deprivated
Crowded mind, chronic illness
Chances in my metaBoLiC balance
Low sodium my medicine can't control 'em
WhO is YoU
And WhAt iz tat
As I see myself I view
In mi short term memory...

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She lay on the hospital bed
like a grotesque monster
barely recognisable ...
head swollen
face battered with vivid bruising
hair matted with crusty coagulated blood
the scans revealed 
two bleeds on her brain

After nine years
Her short term memory is 
Her...

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