Long Underwhelming Poems

In feminist political analysis,
when not stuck
in all day systemic paralysis,

Every win/win
v win/lose 
v lose/lose energetic trend,
synergetic person,
integral narrative,

Each interdependent development
and apartheid decay,

All seasonal health
and unreasonably greedy
fractured wealth,

Exhales multi-paradigmatic power
non-autocratic,
more neuro-sensory automatic,
and inhales enlightening Ways
for cooperative...

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It seems unlikely
Left Hemisphere's
Either 100% Positive-On 
Or 0% Negative-Dormant circuitry

Could change
toward polypolarizing
Right Hemisphere's
Both Full
And NonZero Empty
CoPassion
And Silent Soul feelings

Devoid of unilaterally dissonant monoculturalism,
monotheistic judging voices,
depressing anthro-supremacism,
predicating overwhelming chaos,
underwhelming complexity
of unnatural lose-Me/lose-We despair
for fading
formerly healthy memories
of...

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I'm worried
you have over valued
your favorite deceptively entertaining 
disformed
dis-eased commodity,

DisInformation's strategic value
and disvalue
and misvalue
depreciatively revaluated
against long-term resonant
and resilient democratic constitutional
win/win eco-political wealth
of USA patriotic empowerment
for resilient health and safety ecosystems

Not Nationalist Republican
accurately
or acutely
or ecologically
or therapeutically...

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The Forest

The forest never 
asks where it is
it always knows the way
be like the forest
You'll find me in the forest 
Beneath the silver birch tree
With ribs in weaves of primrose
And stomach in knots of heather
What...

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Why do I need to keep all my inside voices
speaking nicely with each other?
Expressing positive attitude,
gratitude for grace
and curious outside opportunity
feels much too positive to me.

It's a robust Ego requirement,
An inside health and safety regulation.

That...

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In the morning,
I am not a poet.
This is no matter of opinion,
It is an undisputable fact, and don't I know it.

I am not a poet
In the afternoon, either.
Not for a lack of trying,
The words simply...

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Natural compassion,
like unnatural hate,
is left hemisphere teachable
and right hemisphere contagious.

Perhaps also like hate
(fortunately I know less about this 
journey in misfortune)
compassion cannot mature
through merely didactic reasoning,
words,
thoughts
devoid of healthy/pathological
safe/danger
anticipation/anxious feelings

Positive communication experience
commitment
predicts healthy integrity

Nurturing
and nutritional support

Nature's...

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more …

more than I’ll ever know …
that’s how much you love me
(just spoken)
but what the hell does that mean?
how do you know that I’ll never know
how much you love me??
I mean, thanks …
thanks for the...

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Integrity can feel overwhelming
when compared to underwhelming 
disintegration

Nascent powers of joy/sorrow-full integrity
have emerged perhaps too late in
full and emptying life,
which feels sad,
at best bitterly happy
to take so long
to move from wounded child
into integral binomials

Like thinking...

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By Laura Dee Battle
January 23, 2015

Distantly it seems to fade into the sunset 
All those life or death situations now seem underwhelming 
The online battle cries used to feel like such a threat 
Why do...

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My bf works in Geneva, Switzerland. I go to school in New Haven. We Facetime a lot - but it’s not ideal.

“I wanted to tell you, that it’s been nice.” I told him somberly. “What...

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My stomach hurts filled with pain
overwhelmed with unresolved emotions.
What is this? Missed signs that no one can read 
or just misery that I can only claim? 
Crying out for you to see for this to...

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In this moment
Of sheer damned damage
I grasp it
As if I owned it
It's devasting tragedy
It's underwhelming overture
A symphony of sadness
Bringing a drabness 
To a whole new light

For your eyes
Enter surprise 
Everytime an Eden dies
Paradise is lost
As...

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When I'm pining for the power to yield
Breaking all the branches I seize
Acres for the taking in a forest of mistakes
I can't see for the trees

I level
With the shallow playing field
Dreaming up a blueprint to...

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 free verse with poetic device
                
Having just disembarked from a date with death
on the water, time’s gateway forked for...

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the skeleton that was me
i remember him well
sweating in the port-a-john 
wondering what went wrong

the skeleton that was me
i remember him well
walking the shaky leg walk
to any type of water fountain

the skeleton that was me
i...

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Does your loneliness seem hopeless
Is your nearest friend too far
Is your self-love close to empty
Your night sky without a star?

Do you know life’s question’s answers
Does your crystal ball shine clear
Does the path ahead show promise
Does...

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THE EMPTY FILLED CUP

Ever felt a vacuum despite the fact you fill-up others?
But how can you fill up other "cups" if your cup is empty?
Can an empty cup fill-up another cup?
But if you're actually filling...

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Reason doth consume thee
In thine ever-fading glade
Of subtle dying beauty
Of frozen silent play

The sadness underwhelming
Compared to the cascade
Of screaming, which is nothing
Next to this rotting cage

Why ever did we let go
Of all that we could...

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There's a secret men's club,
Of men at the pub,
We are men, we drink beer,
Loud laughter over here,
Slap shoulders, cheers,
We are men, we drink beer,
Bring that barmaid over here,
Let's drink beer, cheers,
Loud laughs and leers,
"I'll give...

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