Measuring Vice
...A serving size they say is wise
Never issued a measuring cup
Nobody led with avoid demise
Here take a sweet nothing, yup!
How do you quantify gluttony?
Misrecognition from the start
Is it hun...
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Categories:
quantify, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Strong-think v wrong-think'
...You can't hold it both ways, In meaning.' You
Are either direct.' Or directionless..And thus
In a mess.' No less-en-ing, yet less kenning will ensue.' Though
You deny..Its more obvious..Showing ...
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Categories:
quantify, america, appreciation, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
What say you
...As I sat I stared at the teeniest tiniest of hairs which by and by was not so easy for these naked eyes to quantify it was but one single prayer that then as it were by or perhaps with some sort of s...
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Categories:
quantify, allegory, analogy, animal, anti
Form: Free verse
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...
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Categories:
quantify, courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
The beat goes on
...Since you have been gone
A lot of water has passed under the bridge
A mixed bag of events have occurred
Leaving behind earth-shaking calamities
Difficult to quantify
As confusion like w...
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Categories:
quantify, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Always Thinking
...How often do I think of you?
Let's try to quantify:
1. If always was a number
I couldn't count that high,
2. If always was a distance
Try measuring the sky,
3. If always was a volume
Th...
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Categories:
quantify, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to say
You are the sea—each wave not an argume...
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Categories:
quantify, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Lyric
Humanity
...
4. Quantum Superposition
. A particle can exist in multiple states or places simultaneously until measured
Are humans waves or particles?
Even an entire human being, under the righ...
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Categories:
quantify, humanity, science,
Form: Free verse
A letter to Chidume
...You came and perceived, driving through every life tussle,
in the hustle of frowns, smiles and laughter,
conquering everyday tasks in your unique way!
The poet in me acclaims and writes this po...
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Categories:
quantify, eulogy, farewell, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Poetic Genius of Percy Bysshe Shelley
...NN:
"Gemini, in light of the following assessment of Percy Bysshe's Shelley verbal and/or literary IQ and level of poetic intelligence and giftedness by you (from another conversation), how much hig...
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Categories:
quantify, history, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
Counting
...#Counting!
Caught between numbers, days and emotions, strangled in this corner of the unknown, don't know what to count or how to count, should I be counting with my fingers or my imagination, for i...
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Categories:
quantify, creation, future, god, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Crisis Of Confidence
...Just lay back on the couch and tell me what’s unsettling you
Everything has changed and I don’t know what I’m to do
Expand on that in ways that might help me to understand
...
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Categories:
quantify, anxiety, change, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
In Their Honor
...On this day, I think of those
who gave it all for a cause,
answered the call to duty and service.
I often wonder, what compels one
to make such a profound sacrifice,
how to quantify such brave...
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Categories:
quantify, appreciation, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Guilt’s torture
...Stagnate, I laugh in black and white.
Aggravating circumstances of a one sided life. Guilt, strife, the ultimate price. Peaks and valleys, a gripping vice. Quantify flesh, justify insanity, intensif...
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Categories:
quantify, depression,
Form: Rhyme
WORDS CAN'T EXPRESS
...Asterism
that's how i can explain how we met
I'm no astronaut
but the stars aligned when i met you
Solace
is what i found in you
I've been happy all my life
but with you there's comfort
I...
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Categories:
quantify, anniversary, art, creation, fantasy,
Form: Imagism
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