Long Simplify Poems

Understanding Suicide Understanding Me

Awhile back I had a dear friend contact me to ask if I heard about the young mans suicide at a nearby towns school. I had not. After asking one time on...

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V. "The Great Collective Awakening"

Aren't we the true definitive problem,
     not just astray-
     malignant corporations…
Or unresponsive governments ?
We are faulted; consumers 
     telling...

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As the ship went down beneath the raging sea
The band was heard playing, “Nearer my God to Thee”
As the two slipped below the waves and were gone
The band played on…

Let it never be cried
That his...

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I was a meticulous city planner, like future plans we make for jasmine days,
And I loved beautifying the big city, like blooming parks where nature plays.

I was ever striving to improve the metropolis, proposing plans...

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I saw a young man shouting in the street,
he couldn’t have been much more than twenty,
and for some reason felt ever so mad
about his country, this land of plenty.

He seemed to be so very passionate,
so...

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My Liquor language, and bottle babble, is giving you and on slaw of curses an 
voodoo spells. The heat from lips that can singe the devil feet in 
hell.Contemplate; contemplate the real side of the...

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Mum used to tell me
the bible contradicts itself
and that's true
but is it like a riddle 

waiting to be solved
the bible says 
God created man in his image
so God should look like a man

But then it...

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Learning helps us understand who we are 
Our capacity to grasp an idea
Gives us the ability to
Transform our environment
Our know-how used to good effect

To conquer is to try and
Learn the innards of a thing
Knowledge gives...

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I grew up knowing i am different and i am special, 
i grew up paying rent and to strive is my battle. 

I was the best after a long time, 
talk of the world by...

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...When Jamal broke windows at a protest
the police arrested the youth again,
his college had no choice but to expel,
Jamal got off with probation and then

found himself back at his uncle’s restaurant,
not really sure what he...

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Tribute to peter duggan
A brother from another mother
My poems are so long 
But one soul care to 
Read them all
Peter duggan

A brother from another mother 
As I simplify
For the power of 
Simplicity never
Seize to let...

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Each of us is a special case of music and noise on the ground
So listen, sit down and listen to His rhythmic laughter, scholar.
You are just a hertz of His, a cell, a particle of...

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"Lee, you awake?"
Yeah, sorry. "Where were you?"
Nowhere, my call? Fold.
Looking around the table, I couldn't have drifted that long,
Wouldn't have known from the stares, whatever the faces.
There I go again, blocking out the sounds,
"You have...

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My poetry

I want my poetry to join your poetry pointing the way...and providing safety nets... for our most sacred / also provoke, incite, inspire, inquirer, encourage, discourage respect, dissect, inject, create humor, to be enjoyed...

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Why is technology more difficult to grasp, the more they try to simplify it? Take the computer for example, when it first came out it was big, expensive and bulky and not in use for...

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Interpretivity is a measure of a person’s rate of understanding. A person’s rate of
interpretation shows the individual’s ability to unlock, identify, simplify, solve,
measure accurately, try to understand, restore, think, re-think, unveil, transcribe,
translate and hence it...

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In the absence of complication,
trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind

Why, had the circumstances been not so 
You would have listened to my frail voice
As...

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hear the phrase all of the time,
‘It doesn’t fit the narrative,’
used in news, academia,
and in political missives,
a phrase that I find curious
since so many do seem to yell
that the narrative they’ve chosen
outweighs even the world...

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Under the vault of memory, where silences are dressed in echoes,
I beg you, let your memory dance among us, unbounded.
When I open your book, a collection of fragments,
My hand navigates through pages, and time dilates
Until...

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I fail to sleep by night as

My soul sails away from me

My eyelids collapse, heavy with sleep

As I hear toothless voices

Spouting out truth like a fountain with rusty waters

They inform me of memories I knew...

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No voice is whispered in the void
Explosions inside the nest of stars
Ignite into the operas of the galaxies 
Noiseless vacancies full of mysteries
Evolve, remain as vacuous as they are

Space, bridled by the fire balls of...

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I am now retired and doing what I have desired to do for decades.
Over a period of at least 60 years, I have in some way been a part
of America's labor force. Just a few...

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Up next in lit class was the unit 
on Transcendentalism.
Between that topic and the teens,
there yawned a wide, deep schism.

I struggle with the theme myself.
Quite rigorously I'd prepared 
by grasping points I knew must be
included;...

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Much to do
Yes it's true

Sit in chair
Look and stare.

Illness strain
Constant drain

What a mess
Hornet nest.

Clutter here
Clutter there.

Just start small
I won't fall

Choose one thing
It won't sting

Do it quick
That's the trick.

Stay on task
Make it last.

Hydrate too
Good it's true.

On...

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I live in middle land between fuzzy bottom
and the high hazy skies
I peer down quantum wishing-wells, waves entangle
observed as they collapse
I scan beyond forever where dark matter lurks
in unforeseen disguise
I think I am, I blink,...

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