Long Unnameable Poems

Acquiescence begets hegemony...

Think Putin whose forename
Vladimir translates as great power,
whose singular minded aim
after lobbing bombs into
second-largest country
by area in Europe after Russia
incurring voodoo spells
foisted upon president of Ukraine
forced neophyte politician
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy
to buckle and cower.

Meanwhile...

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Karuna, a beautiful nurse with a mother’s heart 
Used to take minute care of patients in her ward
In a Mumbai hospital  
Her services to the patients befitting her name
Were full of compassion:  
All...

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These things are passing
temporary in their afflictions of
to be dealt with in problematical
or carried a brick of sacks
slung this weight upon the back
to weigh a feathers heart
against solutions search

These things are transient
present in busy most...

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I walk at a quick pace...
For I fear their black eyes.
It quickens my blood.
My heart takes flight.
As shattered neon explodes into the sky
Sparks rain in, glass tinkles into the silence.
The only thing I hear is...

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What strange cascades course down my spine -
invisible, unnameable, and as of yet, undiagnosed.
I only can liken them to rain or wind.
Sometimes they are as a shower -
pitter-pattering lightly down my back.
Other times they make...

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"Reification" has it that biologically-intrinsic "Morality" understood as a-priori to Perception makes "Religion" a "Collective" or "Shared" Psychological experience.

CHAT GPT says:

Put it this way: ~ God = the unpatterned, unnameable origin of all value =...

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Looking around her at all of the strangers
doesn’t know where she is
doesn’t know the faces around her
and as their smiles turn into a horror
it’s in the currency of children
to the perversions of a sickness
her innocence...

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In a box full of Shadows...
Dwell objects of Cryptic Imagery...
Through ancient Frosted glass...
Fractured like spider webs.
Creep items of the unknown or the forgotten.
From rusted gears of broken 
clocks and crazy cracked crystal rocks.
To skulls of...

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"My passion is to see poets' souls, brilliantly on fire!"... .P. Romios.

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world!" Percy Bysshe Shelley, romantic poet


Without us being phony politicians mucking about with pants on fire.
We...

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The streets I trod
As an innocent and naive child
Appeared as gold-paved and rosy-hued
And the brilliant light of optimism
Shone on all and everything,
Banishing worrisome dark shadows.
Only now as an adult,
Weary with experience
Does walking those same streets
Reveal...

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My face flushes and tingles as I near your presence, encountering that
unnameable feeling, giving off a palpable buzz of joy, an almost electric field that causes the hairs on my arms to stiffen like soldiers...

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Unnameable the moment  when it starts
The  sun goes turns black  and flowers  die on the stalk
The agony in the garden of the heart

Unnatural rhythms  subvert  accountants’ charts
Poor nestlings feel...

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last I checked I wasn't one of you
I was ultimately and overarchingly one of me
apparently fortune had brought him to this instant
to the point of questioning fate hard
when the child is smarter than the parent
what...

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There is no dictionary large enough
to contain the words I need
to write this down. Virgo, child of doubt,
server of scars. My perfection is
a cracked pot that knows only questions
and voices huddled round silence that
shape an...

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Promises are made to be kept, though they are wrapped in a cocoon of razor wire. 
The words that fall out of your mouth turn into insects, and are instantly 
consumed by the reptiles. Everything...

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May i have your undivided wilderness?
Please. Some place where ‘me’ might lose
its self without forgetting what I am.
I know it exists because you exist,
& all those unnameable things that hide
in silence between the heart beats...

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Ripped from womb
Slapped to teens
Used by all
trapped within this fleshy cage
Anger feed upon my emotions
And slowly changes all to replicate its form
Life sits upon me squeezing air from my broken core
Held together by bruises and...

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