Don't Count
...When you grow extremely old,
accept what can't be controlled.
You must think philosophically
every time you need to pee.
Years and nighttime trips? Don't count -
too hard to reckon that amount....
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Categories:
philosophically, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Nevermore, Whatever For?
...My eyes wandered through an old photograph.
Pausing suddenly, I dissolved in tears,
remembering how, the first half of half
of my life, you were with me all those years,
and how my young love,...
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Categories:
philosophically, grief, hair, humor,
Form: Other
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
...Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.
...
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Categories:
philosophically, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Deliverance
...An age-old dilemma,
Sages and humanity wonder aloud,
The death will get us the deliverance from the body,
But how would I set my soul free?
Scientifically the day we die, everything ends,
The ...
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Categories:
philosophically, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Christmas gifts
...It is a million-dollar bet,
You have a list of things to get
On that once-a-year date
And then weighs in your fate,
You get what you get, just like that.
___________________
Happenings |02.01.2...
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Categories:
philosophically, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
In A Class of Your Own
...I was created
in the image of God, I
Imago Deo
But I am in a
class of my own, I am a
Mathematical
set of one, we all
are a token, Socrates
or me and yes, you
I am a type, which
...
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Categories:
philosophically, class, identity, math, me,
Form: Haiku
HSE, HSE, HSE
...Hovering over a flashing sign
At the portal to our oil town
Chirped the fluttering sparrow
To the tiny desert flower
That had just offered
Its first golden smile
To the rising sun of spring:
...
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Categories:
philosophically, earth, environment, february, god,
Form: Free verse
Real, Vulnerable, Myself, Now
...Free Verse: Vulnerability
Philosophically, and ideally,
I believe I should be myself,
Which makes me feel vulnerable, unsafe, and insecure.
Practically, and actually,
My philosophical ideal ...
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Categories:
philosophically, courage, fear, philosophy, today,
Form: Free verse
Hedonic hotspots
...Pursuing more than a fair rightful need,
Man, thou hast cornered every craven toy,
Coveting vulture-like that grabs with greed,
Indulging more, way far less to enjoy,
Chasing false thrills on...
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Categories:
philosophically, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Prologue Still Chapter 1 don't get ahead of yourself
...
RufePal kept muttering "jv" team as it looked
around the room,
hoping to find someone underage to mentor to.
Michael blurted, "you and your precious
America! You are so gullible ...
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Categories:
philosophically, art,
Form: I do not know?
Fumbling Verse
...Trying to gel
Thoughts dwell
Mind swell
Tapping a rhyming well
Skills fell
A rusty tell
A weak sell
Heating coils smell
I went to the well and found it parched
Shake me awake for the long ma...
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Categories:
philosophically, life, muse, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Some Movies
...are philosophically...
a
full loss of 'fees' knot...
and
be a full loss of why...
some
phil lost sophie...
with
his being too diction airy...
stan...
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Categories:
philosophically, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Facial Recognition Blues
...Facial Recognition Blues
Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram
Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam
The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram
An innoce...
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Categories:
philosophically, angst, beautiful, corruption, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
The Yawp
...See the recumbent lion,
it yawns, mouth stretched open
a wide silence – he is not tired,
just philosophically bored.
It is a yawp
as much as the startled jaw
of a newborn kitten
is a visible...
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Categories:
philosophically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
As a Man, You Would Not Understand
...I asked my wife, what is the purpose of the married life,
She answers philosophically, " The goal is to turn Mr. Wrong into Mr. Right".
I asked my wife, why you need so many dresses and sarees,
...
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Categories:
philosophically, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
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