Long Small scale Poems

Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger muscles atrophied
veering off on a tangent...

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Organic
zero-waste stream 
permaculturally designed
and cooperatively owned
farms
are no more or less Democratic-Boutique ecopolitics

Than AgriBusiness
extractive anti-ecological 
rather than restorative-ecosystemic therapy,
competitively owned
and Business as Usual capitalist-colonizing designed
multinational conglomerates of anthro-hubris greed,
are no more or less Totalitarian Universal Supremacist...

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I'm still reading Your Resonant Self,
by Dr. Sarah Peyton,
speaking of how contempt
destroys relationships
formerly cooperative
and, thereby, healthy.

Disgust about oneself
and contempt against Other
are interrelated,
like ego and eco,
like Yang and Yin,

"Humans seem to be capable of disconnecting from...

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Huxley was in his nineteenth year,
a freshman at a fancy school,
the kind with excesses of ivy,
who claimed they accepted no fools.

The academics were no task,
he’d always excelled with his mind,
but finding like souls to fit...

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Many people'll give to strangers, folks they've never met,
While to and for their closest, they conveniently forget.
Many people will give to others on the world's other side,
But when their own are in need, the same...

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Quasi Mote - Oh Ephemeral Transit Across Proto Zones!

Strictly speculation from this mind,
who contemplates stripped down version
bajillion eons ago
cosmic bit sized dots
pinwheeled thru spatial void

repulsed and/or attracted
colluding (putin on the Ritz)
infinitesimal show stopper
devoid of prior...

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Con-sequen-ces to living, barriers un-forgiving scape of
Mean choice's denying sponteanous voices, you are free
To choose.! Yet maybe you could loose? Better restrain
Your views' As for the environment he will choose..him
The anti-one.' Voicer of reasons of...

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I - The dreamer 

And dreams gift feelings eternal 
in a finite clear real space. 
That mountain range is a tidal wave - 
land then sea morph as mire. 

II - The green an' the...

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...In my country children die... 
not of war...for soiling, their pants 

...here, they're beaten, until 
they stop breathing... 

...spiritual distance... 

...the forgotten on a file... 
the authorities in denial... 

...under the rug, is full... 

no...

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Vehicle headlights segue through the muggy day as police cars and ambulances hold 

sway as though autumn has crept into a summer's day and flora and fauna 

do not know what to do until this...

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Circular round, quite over and over
Raindrops fall rightly into the puddle
Grey as the darkest color except night
Making the mind to become quite muddled

The purest of reflections disturbed here
Through the puddle it is shown now aligned
Grandest...

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The spaceship contest


First things first, start with ingenuity
A good pair of glasses to help with visual acuity
And of course a good set of directions would work
You could assemble a team and a sales clerk
Determine a...

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CASCADES
of anguished
 brilliance
appears
to be  shared
with the self-aware
&
vulnerable
 unsuccessful
but
 provides a
 self-image
in

multiple ways
with

complicated
intentions
&circumstances

thoughts&
 touch
a single
 state of mind
each
 leave their trace

a personal style
 all played
out
on a
  small scale
derived
from looking
 at  the face

in shadowed
interplay
  a transition
 surrounded
& faded to nothing
 in a disconcerting
  way
between self
&image


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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REBIRTH
glories
of
a cultural flowering
a revival
  once barren
in a
traumatic fragmented
                schism
 a comeback
an
elaborate
   creative perspective
on crossed
    horizons

this discovery
  &mastery reinvigorated
immediate
  in maturity
with small measure
yet simultaneous
possibilities
     of patronage arise
extravagantly
grandiose & complex
 to proclaim & emphasise

 a lifestyle
well made
in symbols
   anecdotes
on a small scale
genre scenes
    a relative calm
of elegance
simple
   satisfying
     longings

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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In a wide street of commuters and passers by
rare is road disorder, measured in a small scale
busy minds, walking legs, punchers of devices,
a quick censors and smart gadgets top the stats
sitting, walking, eating or talking,...

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    parasitic it creeps between stage curtains
            floorboards collect grooves
    an advertised show that's  
bait & switch
...

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MONDRIAN
Fluid interaction
   of poise & rhythm
    spirals float
linear lines
      circular shapes
  small scale
fascination of freshness
    perception personified
 touches the eye
     of the beholder

A floating tension
   between weight&
        lightness
reflections &
       symbolic sensations
abstract &realism
combine
    in  tactile  relief
long incised lines
    of beauty
        where enigma lies

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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WOLS EKPHRASIS
Tachiste,blot and stain,spontaneous of
the moment ,like life itself can so often be.
Small scale in composition,compulsive 
unrecognised at the time,yet literal and
long lasting,are the memories we see
Inspired by Wols ‘Composition’ c 1950
PALMER EKPHRASIS
In a Shoreham...

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SONNET-IN-PROCESS: Power of One

Words of concern, friendship, simple chatter
Will keep one from those dear, dear therapists
The power of your talk, a small matter,
Is oft the thinnest thread this side of death

We talked before machine and...

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upstairs
the hammers of a piano
stomp through a tune mechanically
unwilling fingers
prod at a well-known student piece

a small scottie dog appears
wearing a tartan coat

a light hibernian them
rings in my head

later
a young child joins me
to sit on the...

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REBIRTH
glories
of
a cultural flowering
a revival
  once barren
in a
traumatic fragmented
                schism
 a comeback
an
elaborate
   creative perspective
on crossed
    horizons

this discovery
  &mastery reinvigorated
immediate
  in maturity
with small measure
yet simultaneous
possibilities
     of patronage arise
extravagantly
grandiose & complex
 to proclaim & emphasise

 a lifestyle
well made
in symbols
   anecdotes
on a small scale
genre scenes
    a relative calm
of elegance
simple
   satisfying
     longings...

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AN ECLECTIC ENIGMA 3
Fluid interaction of poise & rhythm
spirals float,linear lines,curcular shapes,
small scale domestique in design.A
fascination of freshness,perception 
personified touches the eye of
the beholder.A floating tension between
weight& lightness create reflections &
symbolic sensations within.Abstract and 
realism...

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upstairs
the hammers of a piano
mechanically stomp through a tune 
as unwilling fingers
prod at a well-known student piece

a small scottie dog appears
wearing a tartan coat

a light hibernian them
clambers into my head

later
a young child joins me
to sit...

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