Long Unlearning Poems

In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...

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Compassion,
love,
resilient economic exchange systems,
political empowerment,
personal revolutionary conversion,
all diverse names for one feeling of integrity
coming to us through our wise Elders;
So foolish back in their day
they had not thought to divide
sacred health from secular wealth.

Through their,
and...

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Everyday I used to wake up and need weed, 
and I mean agonizingly ache tensing as I seek
consuming my mind, just one goal to achieve 
nothing but this everyday on repeat 

once I succeed I'd...

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America is an idea
that "all men are created equal,"
before we cared to define "human", "created", or "equal."
America is freedom for our grandchildren
in a manner we will never understand.

It is the founding fathers who died for...

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In a corner of my village, where old teaks creak,
Where their feathery green leaves, with breeze, secrets speak;
Near these none, even at noon ever dare to go,
It's believed that at night ghosts has their fashion-show...!

A...

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It was called a planet when I was young
Placed in the Milky Way  after the "big bang"

Pluto is the Roman's underworld god
Hades to the Greek now that isn't really bad

Discovered by American Clyde Tombaugh...

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Please take this lightly as I have verged on the dramatic. It was inspired and written for the 'haunted' poetry prompt and poetic license employed. It is about anxiety.

My head is haunted by a foe
Whispering...

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When rapture outcomes
spiritually hoped for,
Paradise faithed in,
loved,
justify unnaturally violent missionary means...

When only scientific and deductively logical
reductive educational goals
justify:
Anti-spiritual wide and shallow unlearning means
Monocultures must TeacherWin before we StudentLose
Mono-supreme theistic Lose/Lose terror and neglect
AND yet quiet...

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My world crumbles, but I'm uncertain how to seize,
Myself or the hand proffered, unsure if it brings ease.
Once more I see in hues of black and white,
Where did the vibrant colors fade from sight?

Within, my...

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What is the purpose of poetry,
and therefore the meaning of the poet?
Beautiful style?
Aesthetic merit?
Artistic elegance or the beauty of its truth?
Is poetic purpose the meaning of its language
or the art of linguistic choices?

Of course it...

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You’re gone, well that’s okay
But where do I place my longing of habits that intertwined with yours and your belongings
My dependency for you drags 
Sweating, suffocating
I wish you’d stayed, but really it was a blessing...

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I'll write to you of medieval ages,
Foreign lands,knights and of many sages.
Medieval verse,and versification
With ancient meter I shall imitate,
To flesh out this age's animation.
And stories fictional and real I'll tell.

The souls of sundry virtues and...

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The earth of five million was of one speech,
Build it up, higher and higher, undie,
Towers of dub man,
circumvent his plan,
Suddenly behold the man, throw it down,
Speak of Babel, people uncomfortable,
Confound and confuse, scatter, no matter,
Shem,...

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Unlearning a reflex takes quite a while
As I cross the flooding Nile
Overcoming my thirst adrift in the sea
Mouth full of sand, blood too thick to bleed
I'm losing a staring contest looking at a mirror
And objects...

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111 known to represent intuition
Trusting yourself fully is the mission

Have you ever felt something about someone
everyone else was blinded by the gaslight
but some time passed 
and turns out - YOU WERE RIGHT 

How many times...

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The clouds look so harmless, so meaningless
 But when they're there, and the sun can't shine through,
 I feel you a little bit less.
 Dear Mum...
 I hope you watched me today,
 I tried to...

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Millennials standing most assured
need no knowledge of the war
Too evolved, won’t be anymore,
Yet lessons prevent they ignore

For war was long before their time
and now all are living fine
how or why not on their mind
assured all...

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"it still  petrifies  me,
even  after so  many  attempts,
the  daunting task,
of forgetting  you..
of unlearning,
your voice,
your eyes,
your kisses,
your promises..

at first my heart revolts,
but it must be done..
so i hold on...

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wash up and lock our doors

overnight we’re told to stay indoors
while mankind is under attack
it’s the best we can do to win a war
against our invisible common enemy

time caught in a meaningless loop
like everyone I...

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It still petrifies me,
Even after so many attempts,
The daunting task,
Of forgetting you...
Of unlearning,
Your voice, 
Your eyes,
Your kisses,
Your promises..
At first my heart revolts,
But it must be done..
So i hold on courageously,
And march along..
But to forget,
I must...

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I am an ocean in motion.
I live in absolute devotion
to everlasting mental explosion.
I ride the vibe music wise.
Better yet heart wise.
Unlearning I have prescribed myself.

So much uselessness from foolishness.
Sick ridden they leave the kids.
Pounded, prodded...

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Unapologetic..
For realizing the comfort in perfect imperfections
For playing mischief with status quo
For the longing to touch as many lives in this lifetime
For the level of generosity that exhausts, empties and tires

Unapologetic..
For the bouquets of regrets,...

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We file on through scheming life's snaring wiles,
Unlearning bitter lessons sad yesterdays taught;
Biting humble pies for blunders repeatedly made,
Yet unheeding despite like fights erstwhile fought. 

Our one-way treks through world's tasking routes
Are at best rehearsals...

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Learning is a process in which lies
 The power of knowledge but I like to unlearn 
The art of telling lies and inventing them 
I do not like to be in an ego trip as...

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Scrambling over each other, trying hard to be heard, interrupting, yelling out, being yourself.

We knew how to do this when we were two, and three, and four, but they socialized it out of us.

So we...

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