Outputs Poems

The Glitch in the Grid

...The telescreens hummed their endless drone, 
A symphony of truth alone, 
Dictated, printed, beamed so wide, 
Where independent thought had died. 
Newspeak choked the rebel tongue, 
And every sun...
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Categories: outputs, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZen mode

...the building blocks 
of the manifest universe
are seen as fragmented thoughts
thoughts then are but outputs
of creative toroidal heart
where once polarities entwine
all that which has form disa...
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Categories: outputs, light, self, spiritual, universe,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSpring I Relish Your Shine

...Inspired by :
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it."
E.E. Cummings

Placed second in :
A-Types of Forms Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France

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Categories: outputs, appreciation, beauty, seasons, spring,
Form: Acrostic

What Do You Want

...In life, many of our achievements are balanced by the sacrifice required to attain them. 

We look at a beautiful dance or an exquisite athletic performance and cannot comprehend the sacrifice that...
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Categories: outputs, dedication, introspection, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNo Shortcuts

...Can’t just jump to the finish line
Need to put in the work along the way
Would be nice to only reap the gains
But no shortcuts despite what others say

Progress needs to build upon itself
Can’t...
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Categories: outputs, analogy, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberOld Photographs

...old photographs~
faded and creased
my grandma's treasure
inside an embroidered album
where memories are etched
upon each page

printed in grayscale
those filmed-captured
by a vintage camera
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Categories: outputs, grandparents, love, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSacred Regeneration

...In Regenerative Design,
dialectical cooperative contrasts
need not also mean
suspiciously diabolical 
competitive win/lose opposition
to our own internal RightWing
self-righteously
kinda venom...
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Categories: outputs, health, integrity, music, passion,
Form: Political Verse

Before I Ran Out of Blood

...I've been writing countless poems all my life 
With tears as my medium, unpigmented ink
While sulked in the chair where you used to sit on
Words became traces of what was once an unbreakable link....
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Categories: outputs, analogy, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Free Will and Destiny

...Will, Wisdom and Work weaves into action
as I see outputs and outcome come bare
some scarce and some I don't want as my share
yet yield tells not how it does its function

Choice to act or not t...
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Categories: outputs, fate,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberSurely Something

...imagine, wonder, ponder, think
  nebulous nothing is "surely something"
  more than absence, spontaneous spawning on the brink
  let's fantasise, let's dream awake
  utter the dubious name of not...
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Categories: outputs, adventure, endurance, hope, philosophy,
Form: Verse

Destitutes

...DESTITUTES
Decision making is an intrinsic part of our being
Not that we are wise but mean
Desperate for survival, we struggle daily
We are young yet we do what adults do daily
Sobbing, crying, ...
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Categories: outputs, anger, confusion, depression, hope,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Premium MemberConspiracy of Violence

...Nationalism,
nation supremacy,
rooted in competing patriarchal capital rivalries,
is entirely incompatible with EarthPatriotism
rooted in loyalty to cooperatively healthy matriotism

Wherever M...
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Categories: outputs, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Help the Helpless and the Hapless

...Too many questions life asks me
To which I offer no accurate answers
Not that as a busy bee
I can’t assemble diva dancers

To satisfy life’s curiosity 
Meant to uncover
Why life in my city
Be...
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Categories: outputs, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Happier Clan

...Been accused of being a useless old clam
Better to be remembered as just a silly old man
To entertain my workmates
Till the boss says, “WAIT!”
Outputs reduced, but “they're a happier clan...
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Categories: outputs, joy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPatriotic Rhythm and Blues

...If you believe professional athletes
should punch their Free Speech Rights out
when they punch in their employment clock,

Why is it fair
to also believe
you have not twittered out your violent...
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Categories: outputs, bullying, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse

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