Death by jealousy
...They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder
That our differences make it subjective
But when it comes to black beauty
We are the blueprint
And objectively you can't argue with architecture
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Categories:
objectively, beauty, discrimination, jealousy, joy,
Form: Free verse
Correlation vs Causation
...When you look around at the world
How do you know
If it’s correlation or causation in effect?
You don’t.
The only way to really objectively know
Is to subjectively know
Which means we don’t ...
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Categories:
objectively, life, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Life At Call Center
...Incoming... outgoing calls
People are like call center
The hypocrites and the real
In a moment entertaining
Too formal on the onset
Someone is address by name
Someone has sent by God
To help r...
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Categories:
objectively, business, career, life, wisdom,
Form: Prose
Self Portrait
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You’re only as good as your last.
—my spine, mid-fold
I enter a contest
like I enter most rooms:
looking for sound no one’s made yet.
I don’t chase strange—
not all weird is create...
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Categories:
objectively, self, writing,
Form: Free verse
Do Your Worst
...Perhaps you think I’m sitting here, amazed.
Egregious as the test you set me is,
the truth is, I am utterly unfazed.
Desultory, to me, this kind of quiz.
Of course I like a challenge. Don’t...
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Categories:
objectively, character,
Form: Acrostic
Looking for the unfindable
...Looking for the unfindable
Unfindable. Is she missed, forgotten, invisible, lost, maybe dead?
I tried to find her everywhere. Workplaces, pubs, cemeteries, nights,
days, past lives, present life...
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Categories:
objectively, future, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Perspective or perception
...One unbiased through a lense seen clear
Objectively,subjectively unvarnished in form
No quantum entanglements at all devoid of expectation
Free flowing electrons prism like in possibility
The oth...
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Categories:
objectively, life,
Form: Free verse
Clear View-Mixed
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"If you are irritated by every rub,
how will your mirror be polished?" Rumi's quote
With concern for a very close friend,
I looked him into his eyes and said,
"We must see and hear the tru...
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Categories:
objectively, friendship, mirror, truth,
Form: Narrative
Good and bad
...Being in ignorance of our true being or Self
If we say ‘good’ is what takes us nearer to the truth
And ‘bad’ is what immerses us deeper in delusion or in trance
Then perhaps we may look at...
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Categories:
objectively, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Song of The Geckos No 2: ABBA
...Rainbow suave sky soars the aliferous,
swarms as life bores a chance of existence,
so the geckos take without resistance,
for there are those who find them delicious.
They're unorganized, but the...
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Categories:
objectively, allusion, analogy, animal, imagery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Fall of the Fourth Estate
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Where did all the journalists go,
longtime passing -
Why did objectively reporting the news end,...
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Categories:
objectively, betrayal, confusion, corruption, education,
Form: Other
Time Gone
...Today is Wednesday,the very second one of the year,
It is a sunny afternoon, though very busy.
We can tell time in whichever dimension,
From whatever place we may be hiding,
For it is one preciou...
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Categories:
objectively, time,
Form: Free verse
Wounding World
...I've seen Earth's epitaph:
S/He did more than Her share
to heal a broken world
Which sometimes seems to invoke anger
because I can touch what's broken
and other times provoke merely sad
becau...
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Categories:
objectively, anger, anxiety, earth, earth
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Happy National Superhero Day
...When I was young I dreamed of being a superhero whenever I would play…
I might be Superman…or a knight in shining armor searching for a dragon to slay.
I dreamed of being that person who ran into...
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Categories:
objectively, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Reality of the Poet
...I'm not so real
objectively unreal
truly surreal...
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Categories:
objectively, allegory, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Light Verse
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