PURE NORMALITY
EVERYTHING IS NORMAL
The backwater
dreams is catching the winds
to become a whirlwind again...
The past daydreams
of recovering time
to live the present...
Rest
revels in silence
to replenish energy...
the night shines, the stars
with the sleeping rays of the sun
borrowed for free...
Pain heals,
when the scars dry
and become just memories...
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Categories:
normality, allusion, analogy, perspective,
Form: Couplet
In this dream of normality, where everything seems a mask
In this dream of normality, where everything seems a mask, an illusion surrounding us,
I lose myself in thoughts, like a river flowing without direction through the fog that separates us.
Normality, a social construct, an impossible ideal to reach,
A story told by those who do not dare to ask "who am I" and "what do I
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Categories:
normality, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Normality
Do you ever wish you could be
another face in the crowd
that fades from everyone’s memory
blending in like brushstrokes on canvas
catching no one’s attention or mention
Just a mundane man among the many
laughing a bit too loud in the pub upon
hearing a bawdy joke you found funny
Oiling a squeaky door hinge or
repairing a kitchen
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Categories:
normality, career, celebrity, humanity, identity,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Hear the Rain Old Edinburgh Town
Arthur's seat sits hidden by the cloak of night, his head up in the clouds.
Princes Street lies empty, no royals, no life, no crowds.
Nelson stands neglected, having made a monumental mistake.
Charlottes' going square without new books to articulate.
St Giles has closed his doors to weary pilgrim seeking refuge.
The Palace has
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Categories:
normality, city,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows of Madness
I take the pill and deep I go,
Where deep wishes and passions flow
Unbidden by the morals of the common world,
Inside my mind, in the netherworld,
I bear witness to tremors of ecstasy,
To love, power and impunity,
Where rape and slaying is normality,
Desire, passion is totality.
Scary emotions overcome me
My own history of reality is insanity
The end of the
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Categories:
normality, addiction, confusion, crazy, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Normality
Normality
The science saved the day, again
No Frankenstein theatrics
Or headless brain
The villagers chase, not to fork or to prod
No burning torch, crucifix
Or running prayers to God
And while we applaud with no sense of reserve
The white coated wonders
And those who deserve
Part of me Hopes, as the lightning strikes
That our eyes flicker
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Categories:
normality, god, science,
Form: Rhyme
A New Normality
The sky is the limit to what can be said of 2020, what it has brought us and how we are responding or reacting to it. i.e., There's this notion of "getting back to normal". Suffice it to say that me thinks that 2020 has dispatched most forms of what was normal and smashed
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Categories:
normality, change, christian, god, religion,
Form: Verse
Real Normality
Tis’ was a frightful night,
For all set sail on the ship Delight.
All men both heavy and frail
Took pleasure as the only detail.
Tis’ was a frightful night,
For all set sail on the ship Delight.
For they’ve not known the storm to be,
The clouds mighty, and strong the sea.
For all the sun’s light was swallowed up,
The overcast
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Categories:
normality, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Lynching Live: Normality Reins
Lynching Live; So What? Trumped-Up Normality Reins
Knee lynching streamed live,
Shadowed death’s source is revealed;
Justice remains blind!
Cameras roll, showing death’s shadowed
source.
Cameras don’t lie; streaming the truth of
live murder.
Oppressive actions of intentional racialism
unveiled;
Yet, lynched justice remains dangling on the
tree of life.
In oppression, when freedom fires flare-up,
Executive ordered murderers begin shooting;
Revealing despotic authority racialism controls.
With the support
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Categories:
normality, analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Normality
The silence was as loud as the noise had ever been
You miss your friends and family a hug is what you need
We craze the company of others our normal routine
A trip down the cinema to see a new release on the big screen
and for this virus to release us and for us
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Categories:
normality, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Villanelle
Normality
Normality
ills of academic hordes...
sought to lampoon the rest
into robotic construct
notable exploits ~wings of creativity~
via abnormality
certainty of hordes' unquizz
fore they conceal
wee might in twilight’s hour
meager lab’s florescent
shine dimly against darkness peep
of night starry
luminesce cuff
lonely Scoffer draped in
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Categories:
normality, conflict, confusion, introspection, psychological,
Form: Blank verse
Normalcy
I’m happy in my cage
the gold it shines so bright
can’t differ or astray
from thoughts within my mind
They help me to conform
they help me to be free
until the night it comes
lights up monstrosities
Thoughts keep me from myself
they’re keeping me from you
oh where oh where am I
but hiding in the blue
You’ll see
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Categories:
normality, corruption, freedom, god, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Conceptualized Normality
-Society's view of the normal person is so far off that I am yet to meet a single person that has told me that they are this normal we speak of. Nobody meets the unwritten requirements of this conceptualized normality that we use so loosely. This normal is a powerful stipulation whose crutches enable negative
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Categories:
normality, allusion, analogy, anger, bullying,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Conventions of Normality
Normal.
Just a word,
Six letters,
Yet so powerful.
Normal.
Suffocating the unique.
Destroying the unusual.
Submitting to society.
Normal.
Following friends.
Feeling fearful.
Frightening the foxes.
Normal.
Taking away abnormal.
Straightening society.
Creating the same.
Normal.
One word,
With so much depth.
One word to create a uniform world.
Normality is overrated.
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Categories:
normality, identity, social,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Normality Station
As I walk through the turmoil of ADHD
I wonder to myself, why did it have to be me?
what happened to me as a child?,
to make me feel so wild?
why cant I control my mouth and my brain?,
why do I feel I'm going insane?
south Londoners will call me 'chicken oriental!'
professionals will argue, 'hereditary' or
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Categories:
normality, emotions, life, loneliness, me,
Form: Light Verse
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