Long Subculture Poems

“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...

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The raging party goes on into the night 
Near the market place 
Where the poor search for a fix
In the royal kingdom of religion 

The girls come and go like birds in the wind
Enjoying the...

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Healthy families can be quick to anger
but, if so, they have also learned to be quick to forgive,
forgiveness redeems anger and fear to again risk mutual trust.

Partisan political leaders are not leading when they,
immersed in...

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Dark Ages at The Deep End  ( For Alex )



What does our society teach our children
Churn them out as fodder
For the cultural use of consumerism

The empty promises of success
And the great grand promise of...

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You hope that university will answer all of life’s questions, but nope.

I don’t know, 1.
There was a guy who’d been hanging around outside our residence lately. Too consistently. At first, I thought he was someone’s...

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For all the weighted years of empires
Stockpiled with human grief
For all the fallen towers of desires 
From which love has no relief
For all the cargo of the heart and ships
Tossed and turned where water whips
Across...

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"Redemption: The Children of Infinity" 


from the belly 
of the new world
revolution sleeps 

biding its time ;

when all the walls 
of Rome crumbled
new empires dreamed 

of freedom,

releasing humans
baptised demons
no need for, sentient reasons,

no need for...

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Born in a world of sin
A world filled with evil from the very beginning,
Greediness and selfishness,
With the existence of poverty, unemployment, crime and disease
Caused by our own human nature,
An inevitable cycle that continues from the...

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An insane System by any other name
Should still be considered simply insane

A prison by any other name
Could well be the throne 
Of a primitivist's brain

A lifestyle by any other name
Would prefer to be called a...

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Captive damsel of creative-writing programs,   
Personalized, eulogized job of small groups,  
The frenetic activities handy to very few,  
Poetry now belongs to a subculture hew. 

We have accredited professional poets, ...

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Captive damsel of creative-writing programs,  
Personalized, eulogized job of small groups,     
Quo Vadis poetry, a damsel in distress?

The frenetic activities handy to very few,  
Poetry now belongs to a...

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To you, Geoffrey, congratulation
On your gladdening Graduation
Well-deserved: the standing ovation:
You are ready to serve your nation….

However, I fear, from your bedroom,
As you wait for the right job to loom!
Spurious has been the worshipped oil boom,
A...

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Giant bruises from words pulse on the inside of my chest
The past's grip comes biting at my head
I saw a girl beat up by bullies on the news this morning.
Meanness and anger meant nothing to...

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