Self Portrait
Unpredictable and volatile--
morose and quiet one moment,
he is laughing heartily just after a while
at whatever excited his mirth,
his high thin loud laugh strange
from a person with a grave mien.
He would often be in deep thought,
as if engaged in contemplation
of a philosophical question.
You’d think he is not given to humor,
but know him well and
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Categories:
mien, fantasy, introspection, me, philosophy,
Form: Bio
Inferiority Complex Viz Mine Mien
Inferiority complex viz mine (mien)
Although yours truly modest,
the only personal issue
I will lightly boast about
constitutes lingering
self worthlessness bred
if not prior to first grade,
than most definitely incipient,
academic deadlines
loomed large with dread
and exacerbated by procrastination
quickly adopted as linchpin
damned obsessive compulsive
currents (i.e. thoughts) fed
modus operandi, which intricate
schema writ over lifetime invisible
within this talking head
who ironically enough
never uttered a
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Categories:
mien, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Mean Mien Hence Deserved Cross To Bare
Mine Mean Mien, Hence Deserved Cross To Bare
Upon reflection of fatherhood,
onset of hands-on schooling
fraught with narcissism
a role I lept in unaware
with slim success
unknowingly portending how fatuous
frolics spelled ultimate doom
with theoretical strings attached,
when snagged, sans marry in net
utmost misery ties me psyche in knots
unable to quiet refrain
lamentably accepting harsh critique
eldest of deux female offspring,
when
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Categories:
mien, addiction, age, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Mean Mien Donald Trump
Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations
muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying
spews like lava his American
foreign policy boilerplate brazenly
bastardizes by banditry blueprint,
balefully balkanizing beautiful bracketed
booming brady bunch brand,
bests best-buy buffer braking balanced
bastion, bolstered beloved benighted
bequeathed bicameral bipartisan bliss,
Baptizing bacchanalian buffoonish bombast,
betokening bobble-headed Bumstead,
barmy bartered bride bravado, bizarrely
brash brassiness, blindsiding
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Categories:
mien, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Mien Kampf
Starring Tonight
What a superb line-up for you tonight ladies and gentlemen
for your entertainment and delectation
Here is kind old Adolph with Mien Kampf
monsieur Adam Smith presents The Wealth of Nations
L Ron Hubbard Dianetics The modern science of mental health
bearded the wise Karl Marx presents Das Capital
Another beard! Yes it’s old favourite God with the
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Categories:
mien, faith, funny, health, old,
Form: Free verse