Long Sluggishness Poems

Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision.
A decision that may...

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Today August 29th, 2021 sluggishness dogs yours truly

Forecasting to thunderous applause
fast as greased lightning draws
upon futuristic atmospheric gewgaws
hot air emanates out these slackened jaws
spluttering courtesy indentured maws
armed with four footed tall paws
gesticulations resembling horizontal seesaws....

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To a Public Prosecutor or a Judge of Mud*, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s : A un magistrat de boue*

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If I had my way...that's how this started
how I wanted to compose my latest masterpiece
though in the position I'm in 
my thoughts reign weary
as I struggle not to slumber while standing
so I take a seat...

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Four Letters Spelling Blah...

generally define mine anatomical phooey zook
corporeal status, essentially feeling like gook,
not my usual babbling brook
self, thus finds yours truly whooshing, he
could wave a magic wand (all thee
while exjaculating abra
cud dab bra, or...

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Four Letters Spelling Blah...

generally define mine anatomical phooey zook
corporeal status, essentially feeling like gook,
not my usual babbling brook
self, thus finds yours truly whooshing, he
could wave a magic wand (all thee
while exjaculating abra
cud dab bra, or...

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August 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Joel 1-2

Key Verses– Joel 1:5 Awake… Joel 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt...

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In the mid 80's, I took a job as a receptionist for a wholesale floral company.
Encased in a glass claustrophobic space, I answered their busy phone lines
as I gazed at the warehouse walls of greenery...

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Central air conditioning quickly
found this creature comfort acclimated,
defies, contradicts, bumps uglies...
up against rugged individualist
I meekly profess to idealize
admitting propensity nothing

distinguishable differentiating
all talk no action, no less tolerant
than aversion to extreme heat index
burrowing into sixty degree...

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Like two sides of a musical drum or a coin,
Each story has two sides; they, ultimately, join;
This applies to the truth of immortality,
Though, physically, this isn't normality...!

As seeds of an apple spring up, though flesh...

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A cloud like hand
rolls across my cheek,
      stealing a moment
as cold fingertips
     sear down my back,
freezing the skin they touch,
 bringing me away
   ...

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Certainly November is lovely  
beyond our intuition and expectation...
as it paves  the empty  roadways
with auburn foilage;
and the gently hissing wind
creates  its own cheerful melody,
because  frickle  imagination
provides the words of...

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Is it simply laziness? The curious ask.
It's more, yet; moral of mind masquerading mask;
Caring one's self less; experts assuredly say,
Moving from moral values, sloth has its shrewd way...!

Does this mean deprivation of one's precious sleep?
Does...

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Flourish,  
Flourishing as the sun shining you daily 
Rejoicing  as  abundant rain watering your fields 
and creating some dams 
for farming fish and feeding your animals. 
You are burgeoning in the eyes
 of some lazy...

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I broke
my proper thumb
within venial borders
a shear from a bygone era

on your
tip of the iceberg
you spread a ruffle in my
bleeding shadows

we steer
the flow
on with the ebb and tideway
cutter with sawtoothed teeth
 
the scorn
of buoyant tethering
In...

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As lilac lace conjures softness
as forest's green sparks with life
walk in splendor with one heart
be humble in your fondness - for
sluggishness arises - when love for granted haps
when lilac lace is fading - and the...

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Grieving an emotional bind
Curtain hung to guard heart and mind
Fraught with sadness, loss and pure blind
With pain of a loved one combined

Cruel effects on God's temple
Sleeplessness and absence ample
Of hunger, broken-heart angel
Flood-gate unleash in its...

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A sip of the elixir that invigorates the soul. 
The euphoria that it gives calms the nerves.
A fuel of one's enthusiasm to face a new day. 
Waker of one's slumbering blood.

Like a burning sunrise that...

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There is a loss of a sense of being that destroys a man
A floating in existence that is below life
Lifelessness like an inflated balloon thrown from the sky
To float ceaselessly in life’s ocean

To ponder is...

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Sloth’s Steaming Sin


Sluggishness slitters solely straightforward 
Sedentary survival styles scold, strain
Self-centeredness - sloth’s shinning standard 
Squandering silvers… spiritual sprain





July 21,2022     11.31pm





PS Syllable Counter
Syllables Per Line:	10 10 10 10
Total # Syllables:	40



Proverbs 19:15...

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I am on a little stay-cation.
No plans. None.
Melting into my chair, my eyes close.
This is a napping house.
We keep it dark for the TV advantage.
It is easy to not know if it is day or...

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