Counting Dawns
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If eyes open too soon
then a few mornings go missing,
but they are catching up
they will fly in backwards
tumbling out of windswept decades.
Eyes that open too late have to wait,
have to st...
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Categories:
quantifying, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Smell AI
..."I smell A.I. as it coldly brushes against me, stiff and analytical in it's digital analysis of my heartbeat, falling short in quantifying that which is experienced within my soul,,,,, this while tho...
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Categories:
quantifying, anger, feelings, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Quest For Meaning
...Written: October 30, 2023
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Measure the stretch, treasure time,
Measure the hilltops that we climb,
Measure the oceans, va...
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Categories:
quantifying, analogy, appreciation, endurance, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
After Action Report
...Based on observable
And well-documented evidence,
War is nothing but the deliberate
And systematic erasure of human life,
With the purpose of achieving
Some political goal.
In quantifying the...
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Categories:
quantifying, allegory, war,
Form: Prose
That Human About Us
...The lack of humanity
drives zero-sum
Away from each other
a darkening sun
What science explains
its methods conceal
Frustration attacks
lost cogs on the wheel
Desperation in charge
its p...
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Categories:
quantifying, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The Truth Revealed
...The touchstones of existence…
how many have you known
A common rock, a baby’s kiss,
a dog to walk you home
Can one then trump the other,
with importance or with worth
Can a seaside ...
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Categories:
quantifying, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Aesthetics Price
...Quantifying Art…
quality by the pound
Feelings like hair, part
—separation profound
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2015)...
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Categories:
quantifying, art, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Shedding of Performance Charts
...Ever since the times of enlightenment obfuscating harmonious balance
Romantic love has taken a back seat in the absurd theatre of minds
My light my mind my empathy bonds and my unconditional pass...
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Categories:
quantifying, love,
Form: Free verse
In the Seventies
...I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying demeans.
Revolutionary, the stance we took,
The...
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Categories:
quantifying, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Separation Profound
...Quantifying Art,
quality by the pound
Feelings like hair part
—separation profound
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2015)...
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Categories:
quantifying, art,
Form: Rhyme
A Prayer From My Heart and Soul
...Dear Jesus, my Father in heaven, comforter of my soul
I call upon thee with the humblest of heart, Repenting
I'm a sinner and I have sinned many times against you
You saved me anyway; fil...
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Categories:
quantifying, god, light, prayer, religious,
Form: Free verse
A Strange Reality
...We linked into the truth
Saw what was there
Heard the voices rage
As their secrets were laid bare
We broke into the code
Saw what's new and old
Always been the same
Until we meet again
The un...
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Categories:
quantifying, confusion, corruption, destiny, world,
Form: Free verse
Higher Order Thinking
...I never meant to be a Professor,
to keep records,
to rank,
to judge,
to preen.
A crow among peacocks,
I record your scores,
pretending they measure your skills.
I rank you am...
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Categories:
quantifying, education, on work and
Form: Free verse
Contrasting Visions...
...As armies continue to march their sanguinary war
lifeless lay those as sinewy gore,
pinnacled soldiers atop a land possessed
making themselves feel they've been blest
Bittersweet is the toil o...
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Categories:
quantifying, philosophy, socialworld, prejudice, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Indescribable
...I have delved into the very heart
where darkness simmers, love light glimmers
then explodes in current apocalypse,
an inferno eclipse of blind pyromania.
Words, mere kindling and kerosene,
...
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Categories:
quantifying, life, love, passion, people,
Form: Blank verse
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