Long Simplifies Poems

[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...

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Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill - IXL, Part Two

No, tell me not my vote now does not count
         (Shakespearean Sonnet)

No, tell me not my vote...

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We might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming  dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth's limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and yet with more reclining information supporting slow-growth
of recycling resources
such as...

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Written: April 13, 2024  For Ink Empress Contest

Rumi Quote: “Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.” “Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.” 
...

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The dawn is yet to be seen, yet I am here with coffee in hand, drinking my fill from the early riser’s mood. There is darkness still embracing the clear sky and stars wink down,...

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Satan has a story to tell
The preacher man said 
Satan was a proud angel 
Sent away from heaven 
To earth after the wars in heaven
Clearly this simplifies that 
Satan was strong too
No wonder from this...

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Life so complicated, so vindicated
Life never so simple in the dimple
Smiling, pining, piling up pressure in indicated
Moments and torments in a pesky pimple

Germinating on a face hitherto serene
Driven bonkers when complication that conquers
Spaces and territories...

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The innocent victim's are todays heros

I look up to the hills
Behold was cofusion
In it fullness of verities 
As it clouds are so dark 
Despite it colours
I realise it hold no future

I look up to the...

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Everyone is an immigrant 
We all are human 
I guess we belong 
On this planet 
Called earth 

We all are human 
Born by a woman 
As she pure her
flesh blood on 
Each of our heads...

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Waking, she inspects the color under her sweater
and sighs that vague orange is still wearing her.
Orange can’t be her friend until it reveals its core.
While white is already a friend, the floating ones
aloofly speak of...

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Aurora of stars covers the scope
Crystal like surreal colors resemble those in kaleidoscope
Towards nirvana visage of moons will elope
Eerie material like tears the stars will drop that one cans scope

The cosmos is vast
But it is...

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“Each new day is ‘Day One’ for the rest of your life!”
When you say it like that, does your future seem dire?
Just how bad was it really (the fight with your wife)?
Tempers burn through the...

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On the poll snowy owl stands tall and is in full control
Her prismatic eyes are beyond beautiful something to extol
Yet they don’t do justice to her soul
She glides through the air silently soaring off the...

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There's this muted compromise I have with myself. Every time I feel like burying my pen, words rise up again. I go back years later and read something I had written, and will  swear...

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There is a disconnect
between me, myself and I
or should that be among?
The editor in me is always
there ready to correct
me and gets really irate if
I blurt out “Donald and myself”
instead of “Donald and I”
when we...

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As this river gives
Not giving a damn
Emptying the lake of hate
This ecosystem dies
But was it ever alive?
Surviving in my illusions
Confusions of my soul 
The depth of this sinkhole 
Without any reflections
Nothing to mention
Only the hollowing...

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The mists of the stars are transcendent
With them the ice shard in the heart is finally absent
The math in the book of reverie is brilliant
It responds to souls’ every movement

Can we trust that our eyes...

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Here's a copy of your poem so you can simply paste it into the Poets' Workshop 
template.

Love doesn't build up your expectations to only let you down.

Love doesn't live to tell you a lie.

Love doesn't...

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My toaster has two settings
 inferno and brilliant white,
the smoke alarm, because it's bored
goes off sometimes at night.
The smart TV which simplifies
recording for us loons
starts playing back ten minutes in
and finishes too soon.
The microwave 'defrost'...

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The Royals had a baby boy
And Britain’s brimming o’er with joy.
They’ve waited for this festive date
To celebrate with Will and Kate.

This newborn babe is said to be,
Succession-wise, at number three;
And if this lad had been...

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Chemical reaction 
another death For the Fraction

It's all for one thing
and something something something

The space they need to be
is given through energy

It's natural and complex
learning only simplifies next

You can't make infinity shorter
and you can't do...

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