Long Spectate Poems

The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men ….sad
Twisted, fuming with anger, and consumed with rage
Callous and cruel...

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I’m a boy living in a country where
We get emotional over every government move
And every government move is chartered over our emotions
Emotions are chastised whether it or let be
One trying to correct the wrong,
But nay,...

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but this is certainly not intended
to be an instrument of terror
except maybe for the habitual
who are out for my blood
and from whom I am occasionally rescued
speaking of which
it looks like time for my fairy godmother's...

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{"My burial was about to commence, become a happening. My spirit was a necropolis already, everlasting. So what significance did it take for me to give it all up? 
My soul to be extracted from...

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Listen 

We cry out for peace, equal rights, and justice.

In hopes that the leaders we chose will choose to choose us as we have chosen them.
That the ones we trust will trust that we trusted...

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Through your brokenness tried to break down my openness, bleeding human blood  for that you told me I am wrong that I am not strong, that I am weird ,qweer and improperly strung, dying...emptying...

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A teacher with authority is our Lord Jesus the Christ
Who came to challenge us to living a christian life
He came to bring understanding to those who were confused 
He came to impart wisdom to those...

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The winter wanes and the soul of the water revives.

Reincarnation incarnate.

The Cascades cleanses her cradle of Earth; kissing it's sediments with liquid sheen and sentimental shine.

It's body is a white and blue river; it's scales...

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it ain't the gush of hot blood
or a madman’s teeth ripping open
a bag of chips and a microbrew
it is a clenched heart squeezed
by the age of steam
then left at the century's doorstep
following the great migration
of...

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Today, 

I made a choice...In the quiet stillness of my mind.

to let nothing keep me from the essence of this unique day.

Today, 

I have decided to enjoy this day for what it’s worth.

I have decided...

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The night closes the windows, and
The sky has become a crystal house,
Shining crystal windows,
The Moon
Has sketched through them -
Through the entire alabaster sanctuary.
A single star was sending down
A crystal cable,
And passed its plough across the...

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TODAY I HEARD THE BIRDS

TODAY 
I made a choice...In the quiet stillness of my mind.
to let nothing keep me from the essence of this unique day.

TODAY 
I have decided to enjoy this day for what...

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You speak— to me without an utterance
	In every sunset you speak

Brilliant orange hues dance fervently, igniting all in sight; 
setting the horizon ablaze. A gentle sapphire tide gently, beckons the crimson fire to 
subside, as...

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TODAY I made a choice...In the quiet stillness of my mind.
to let nothing keep me from the essence of this unique day.
TODAY I have decided to enjoy this day for what it’s worth.
I have decided...

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If I die tonight
Who will realize that I am gone?
If I part from the only world I know
Who will hear my dying song?

When I choose to take that jump
Off of the ledge that leads to...

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Like an alien I am,
Running my soft, sad program.
Drifting through in this vessel,
This body. Wicked devil.
I look into their deep lives.
I look deep into their eyes.
But inside I clearly see,
Little synonymity.
I gaze up into the...

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Fragile fragments lachrymose, sanctified sapphire rivulets, lamentable malevolence of my fetters, is there a sanctuary from this tableau to which I am shackled as you cascade down the window pane?
Exorcise this spectral phantom hovering above,...

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I see the emerald stones that embellish her shroud.
There is an aching beneath those jade charms that I have seen.
She buries her feeble manners in a cloak ever so cold.
Never shall she bear the complemented...

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"Did Farage really skinny dip?"
Well that's an image I'd rather skip!
Instead, I'll marvel at his craftsmanship
And try to write a playful quip…
 
For, somehow, again, he's in the news
He might as well, he's nothing to...

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Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode. 

Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renascence-linked complacence.

Animals in Model Ts,
Toot along en route,
To queue below burlesque marquee,
Bloating bruit...

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Of course,I read the manual.
Who hasn't?
Words,nothing but words
Until it happens
And then it is burned,branded and imprinted 
Graphically and indelibly
Into your brain.

Sleep brings the nightmare alive
Again and again
You witness it over and over
In all its starkness
There's...

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Don't preach to me, not now, not ever,
It turns out you don't know what is right.
And if you keep spreading these false little truths,
We'll resolve it, out the back, with a fight.

You see, your morals...

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I always intended to love you
Alone.
In secret, in silence, inside, and safe.
I was prepared for the unrequited, for inevitable desire and disappointment,
Spectate, distance, move on,
And be the subject of a one-sided love.

And all the while,...

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Unspoken words on my thoughts 
As moon hidden behind the clouds 
Unable to spectate wholly
But penetrates as chill out.


One day of silence channeled years of bondage.
Smile of your lips, always I yearned for.
Voice echoes deep...

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it is complete -- 
protestations of the existentialists notwithstanding --
the end of history.
Science is here. 
slammed over me.

and everywhere
the necessity of Standardization.
in my labor 
and in my thought
Capitalism dictates.

efficiency is the new God,
except for the...

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