Long Unaddressed Poems

I’m feeling that feeling
I felt in the beginning 
Times flying by 
my minds still spinning
I think I’m losing ground
And my patience is thinning
Getting tangled up in 
the webs Life’s spinning 
Further from where I’ve been...

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My depression is deep and dark and many mile's wide,
As the oceans I've swam, where other's have simply just died.
A little about the mental health professional people I've met
And yes I still see,

No one will...

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Coach Dad

It is a magic time when a child ventures
Into the world, spreading wings,
Beginning the oft painful process
of moving from the nest to the sky.

And it is a fragile time, where first experiences
Weigh heavily on...

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A Picture Of Oneself contains not too much to tell,
Except the package showing that in which they dwell.
This is the only purpose a picture has and does,
Telling nothing about the person who is or was.

A...

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No Way Out
By Rick Rucker

As recently as a year ago,
I knew not, which way to go,

From financial ruin, to likely cancer,
I could not seem to forge an answer,

I went to work, all depressed,
My problems, largely...

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Note: These "Freestyles Filed" are pieces quickly written, with a time limit for each line and no editing. Similar to freestyle raps but instead straight onto paper.

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Awakening the Dream
             by Odin Roark

Even in a dream
A poet’s page
Starts blank

Restlessly
The inscrutable pen hovers 
Awareness preparing absorption
Like a dry valley of nature
Awaiting...

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I lay so seemingly far away from here

In the sleeping bag of my dreams

Where ever do I come from
Going exactly where, I wonder

Especially seeing nothing... is
As was thought it to be seen.

Chilled, wrapped in safety...

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The heavy curtain, refusing to be moved,
is slowly forced aside by those who understand
hidden scenes and private dialog
few audiences have experienced.

Inch by inch the rusty gromets
slide on the rough surface,
where oil has never been,
causing discomfort...

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with amped up current 
   ohm me dog mental illness priceline paid
for fueling, fostering, 
   ferociously festering buzzfeeding 
   anxiety panic, obsessive predipositions, 
   et cetera a...

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A vivid memory of childhood, overall one of the best
Running to the TV, brimming with excitement and anticipation
Waiting to find out, what will be today’s quest
I lived for the man who taught us integrity, honor,...

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We have grown to love has shifted face 
brothers and sisters lost in all that is valued 
under human reality chains shape shifting

Firstly murder has become a tipping point on our scales 
meaningless news edited...

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Those  L O N G  Register Receipts


I move up as next on the line.
She checks out my rations just fine. 
   Some milk, eggs, and bread
     ...

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Sunday’s an auspicious day to suggest
that you, as a student, take a recess
In order to try and decompress
from our studying and stress

Now, of course, if you’re so possessed,
or some might even say obsessed,
you could study...

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statistics say they're checking out at twenty two per day
closure seekers on their final quest
hollow men who don't have time to slowly fade away

side by side they've occupied the chairs of the V. A.
trying pills...

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I have endlessly miss us in past best;
Time has eaten up my distant worry,
Do not grow weary of my silly quest.

You miss it too like how dream's forte arrest,
Eyes blur pictures to fulfilling scurry,
I have...

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My poetry reflects so much that moves me in the world... It's a combination of my experience and feelings and emotions; and my perception and interpretation of the feelings and emotions other people feel. We...

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When tangled hope yields to the sadness,
That sweeps like madness in a perigee tide 
My soul silently abandons redress

Steady sun sings struggles of my weakness
Its rays chide that the light cannot abide
When tangled hope yields...

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Regret!

What do I learn?
When the world shifts
And someone's gone,
Leaving a void

Their absence lingers,
A ghost in the air,
Unnoticed, unheard,
Until it dawns...

The wave crashes down,
Remorse takes hold,
and Sadness seeps in
Like a cold wind blows.

Barren land,
Dug up, untended,
Seeds...

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Even in darkness,
when a moonless sky
preaches fear from a pulpit of shadows
pointing elongated fingers…

when walls crumble 
into a rubble strewn alleyway
and graffiti issues spray paint threats
on frantic facades dripping sabotage…

and kindness remains 
hidden away in...

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My folks said I have a gold butterfly,
That lives within  till the day I die
To  keep me safe from all adventures made;
And guide my walkways as these fingers prayed.

But while I grew in...

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eyes will chew the words
i will not see all day along, do you hear
my thoughts in the icicles of flames, my bones
jutting out of knuckles,
i will go to memory lane once again :

where the stale...

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If That's what you think is best without voice, 
without thought, something's wrong unexpressed.
Spoken out loud, 
leading some one else to decide what is best.
Questioned by you are like me justice is.

Would you then?
Independent of...

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A Political Opinion 
Miracle Man
7/27/2023

Our voices are not yet audible enough,
to tickle the ears of the ones in power.
Those who care choose not to rebuff,
and upon confrontation, they cower.

It seems much that’s worthy is unaddressed,
it’s...

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I watched the porch lights flicker on for them—
the laughter soft, the timing always right.
The chairs were full. I hovered at the stem
of every plan, then vanished with the night.
A window cracked, a voice that...

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