Long Unconventionally Poems

AND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE

Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago?
When as a young person you grew
In what we considered was times of uncertainty...

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The Empirical Veneers of Decency and Acceptance

It’s funny how perceived intelligence 
Is not necessarily a measure of true smarts 
How the genius, the barrister and the eloquent 
Can miss the point from the very start...

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No mustard bombs are dropped
No audible or silent shots are fired
No planes are necessarily blown or hired
No flags are deliberately flown or flapped
No soldiers crossed the borders
To fight, to conquer, to kill or to die
No...

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No mustard bombs are dropped
No audible or silent shots are fired
No planes are necessarily blown or hired
No flags are deliberately flown or flapped
No soldiers crossed the borders
To fight, to conquer, to kill or to die
No...

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“That body is female!”, they tell me.
At the turn of the moon
It purges itself of its sins,
Washing away what lives could have been,
Punished for failing biological duties.

“That body is female!”, they tell me.
Forever marked with...

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a new
    perspective
think
 unconventionally
from
a fresh
point of view
with
less constraints
break out
challenge
  assumptions
sidestep the dangers
with
a novel
 point of view
slant
 vista
angle
alternatives
  conceived
birthed
in
a bigger
  picture
    revealed
set
 upon
  the left field






The art of creating a visual response to a piece of writing is known as  a reverse ekphrasis ie the inverse of the centuries old poetic form of ekphrasis.The most well known example being Charles Demuth 'Figure 5' based upon a W C Williams poem.

EMAGI is a recent variation of a reverse ekphrasis derived by the advent of the widespread use of hand held digital communication devices  -where words in digital  symbols /letters can be represented as a shape
and uses a poet's poem to inspire the digitised 'drawing'...

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I stare at your face every blessed day
The illumination of your smile makes my day everyday
The orderliness of your white diamonds leads my way everyday

I don't take alcohol because you so much intoxicate me

The wave...

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Globalization's march toward a one world government,
has changed our perceptions,internationally...
geographic borders were latitude and longtitude,
now,it's all about the choreography of attitude...

Hunter gatherers forced search for subsistence,
as work at home becomes non-existent...
migrant workers in check 'cause...

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Conventional wisdom means:
Compliments
Smiles
Artificial flowers
Restraint and order
It’s like an English garden
Trimmed and accurate
Where nature is masked
And curves are beaten
It’s like an artificial flavour
Disguising the sweetness
Of the fruit
To constrain, to restrain
To hide, to abstain
Conventional wisdom is
Quiet and...

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Unconventionally brilliant
Champions that are resilient
To being rocked down the chart
Living forever in our hearts
Sounds make you want to break free
From the boundaries of conformity
Let them rock you til you drop
Play the game, never stop
Like Mercury...

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A thought swirls
lingers, then vanishes.
As a transient sashay,
*fleet yet enthralling.

A manic pen
ravages innocent white 
in beautifully futile effort
to eulogize her passing.

Salient words,
scarcely whispered,
drown in a cacophony
of propaganda anthems.

Unready to part,
desperate fists clench,
holding fast to nothing
but...

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