Angst Ottava Rima Poems

Feeling incomplete, heart yearns to expand
and so transmits this desire to the mind,
which ego driven, fails to understand,
that peace is found if cravings are declined,
so...

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Like a frosty breath clinging to Winter's chill
a faint foggy figure floats on the cold air.
It disappears, but its presence lingers still,
fueling feelings of anguish...

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“may refining consciousness layer by layer
be our pristine childlike heart’s, breath by breath prayer”
           ...

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Greed feeds the cliché: nice guys finish last,
there is little appetite for the truth.

And do-gooders are constantly harassed,
a lesson taught to intolerant youth.

Facing a future...

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To have been the joke who bears the jest with grace,
always first to laugh, but harboring disdain,
to have been the clown that wears a painted...

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You were born both innocent and naive,
void of memories, your mind was a blank.

And your parents taught you what to believe,
for all that you are,...

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How street lamps cast a pallid light,
    Which bleeds, through this angst I bestow
    On thoughts dim … flamed...

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Come boldly into this old world, my son
Don't cry and shake your fists with angst and dread
Grow straight, grow strong and work until it's done
Life...

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Day to year living in the shadows of life
Events, eventualities thrown like stones
Embedding in ones soul, pointed knives
Physical mental scars, some shown
This roaming through time,...

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The Big Bang Theory and others devised.
Professors armed with latest editions.
Soon, teach as facts; oh, faith of youth revised.
Inspired, common suppositions.
Biblical creation too soon capsized.
Unaware,...

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Young lovers lie beneath two palms; he winks.
She snuggles closer, smiling, face aglow.
As night draws near their sand barge slowly shrinks.
Abandoned; frightened by the waves...

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When cacophony drizzles through razored defence
and silica devolves to radical flight;
regressing reflections, remembered absence,
with no passion for self inflicted contrite.
When each subtle arc shrouds the...

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The depravities in his bitter hollowed heart would shake the soul of a many 
valiant men,
 The masked horrors and hidden pleasures entice the rawness...

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