Long Unreasoned Poems

You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing  
   I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer  
   I have ever known how to...

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The Discipline of Failure
By John Herlihy

There is a discipline to failure that no one can deny;
We are set up to fail miserably, by others on the sly.
Risk can be calculated into the mix to heighten...

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It is no longer headline news,

If anything scientific happens
it happens for a rational reason

If anything violent doesn't happen,
does it not happen
for an irrational unreasoned
compassionate nonresponse?

It is no longer byline news,
toxic anthro-aggressive at-most-spheres,
dark forbidding climes,
cold winter
evil...

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You've heard it said... "follow your heart"
For relentless desire bleeds for craven want
Yet when indecision weighs on life's many parts
Those opposed abandon not incessant haunt 

Pin pricked light shines brighter 
Through onyx colored scene
Weakness revealed...

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Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials - but I'm as invested in America as any high-school citizen can be. I've...

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My first wife wanted more than I could give her, 
My work she told me robbed her of attention, 
All my energy focused on ‘provider, '
Caused much more trouble than I care to mention.

What wives...

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Poetry to me is a very beautiful thing, 
It’s about your identity and community, 
About friends, family and kind feeling, 
And it’s about how you place in society. 

It reflects upon your sexual partners, 
References...

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Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials—but I'm as invested in America as any high-school citizen can be—I've pledged allegiance 3,000...

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Will this world be the same after we are dead?
Will the bylanes and kerbs be replaced
Dusty pathways by cleaner, wider roads
And the poor, homeless ones to alien hordes

Will the sun rise and set the same...

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Pushed up from stomach's abyssmal pit
Choked off cries, constraint deformed
Packed with panic's punches
Right here where words are formed
Throat cords tightly gripped
Resistance rules my holding back
While mouth stammers mind blown shock
Fear sped thoughts fly blindly
Wild-eyed in...

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[Written with much love and bonhomie in
response to Milt’s Poem ‘Hearty Poetry Soup’]

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Not so long ago in a...

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A stairway that leads to the white borders,
Of edges pointed where condensation forms.
Untainted transparency reflects the glaring Sun,
At the side cushions of white and brown
- a tired mind's sanctuary.
Stilted conversations fly across spilled drinks,
Become waste...

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This internal conflict 
I cannot fight 
This is not black and white 
This unreasoned spite 

I cannot get through 
I have tried 
This message lost too, 
lost in the deep wide 

Two forces collide, 
the...

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This internal conflict 
I cannot fight 
This is not black and white 
This unreasoned spite 

I cannot get through 
I have tried 
This message lost too, 
lost in the deep wide 

Two forces collide, 
the...

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This internal conflict 
I cannot fight 
This is not black and white 
This unreasoned spite 

I cannot get through 
I have tried 
This message lost too, 
lost in the deep wide 

Two forces collide, 
the...

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The life of mature minds
is aid to all silly clowns
adorn life and silently binds
and blooms each face and efface each frown.

The bluster of emotions, floods down
the mind and sheer delight glistens
on lips, and insipid nature...

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The church of the eyes
By Fatmir Terziu

Those just out of the egg,
The confused yellowings
Open their wings, take an unreasoned stance,
Only their mothers understand them. 

They open their light wings
Over fleshy bodies, carefully breathing.
Pressed against the...

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September

The light is angelic;
People turn to shadows, shadows to people.
The heat of Summer cools, steps aside to Fall,
The trees burst into slow flame,
Reminding me that everything must die,
But not die sans glory.

This the time when...

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LITERARY FORM
the suspense
sealed
unexpected
   then unmasked
imitative
 with exploited variations

 influential concepts
innocence
  templated
remains
chronicled &experimental
intermittent
 yet ultimate
but
  seemingly discovered

an aspect unreasoned
yet
 pure
relevant &equivalent
ingenuous
daring&
yet defying
  cryptic interpretation

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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To find solitude in a helpless mind
A silent new world from its judgment found
To ponder this curse unreasoned and blind
Anger is pressed when arguments abound
To find a crack in mirrored perfection
Where prideful instructions will intercede
With...

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Your song resists the lyrics mine proclaims
by measured whispers begging Autumn’s reign

not drown this season with unreasoned pain
nor hobble Winter leaving April lame.

Just as the wick betrayed by yellow flame;
I feel a waning candle nearly...

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and reason fell to bed
as the yellow moon
climbed the Eastern bare-branch
trees.

and tendrils from a long-forgot fire
reached upward, skyward, starward
for what they could not grasp.

what they could not warm.
what they could not know.
what they could not...

and...

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