Speaking In Tongues
...Life shouldn’t be a punishment for living
We can’t be regulated by machines
Accustomed to the stupid self-deceiving
Our freedom is a bird of slavish dreams
Where to it flies, avoiding troubles o...
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Categories:
self deceiving, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Narcissist In Rhyme
...Narcissism shows its ugly head in so many ways
Sharp put-downs to show one’s superiority
A heightened sense of one’s importance, and
Usurping, whenever possible, another’s authority.
Self-decei...
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Categories:
self deceiving, mental illness, people, psychological,
Form: Quatrain
Unwanted Pregnancy
...What would a womb swell
And things suddenly cease to be well…
A life whose mother didn‘t guess
Would her tummy access:
The very last thing by her expected
And certainly the unlikeliest to be res...
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Categories:
self deceiving, abortion, baby, care,
Form: Rhyme
As We Are So We Be
...“which memories to us are near
moments of joy or those of fear”
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Some like romance
Others horror films
Joys of innocence
Or adrenaline grim
Life is but a pla...
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Categories:
self deceiving, dream, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Agreeing To Disagree
...I have noticed
in negative strong
long feeling settings
a willingness
to accept impatience
to reluctantly embrace tolerance
and Agree to DisAgree.
Yet, to equate this conclusion
with cooper...
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Categories:
self deceiving, earth, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
Fooling Myself
...A thousand needles
with sharp shining points
cutting harshly in
tender soft flesh
burning hot needles
searing as they go
piercing deeper in
with every painful step
ripping caring agon...
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Categories:
self deceiving, poetry,
Form: Free verse
50 Stories High
...“Step into my office, young novice
Clear off the tears from your face
Because they’re pointlessly burrowing into orifices
Tuning wounds that will bloom into a fixed gear race
Shift from fifth gea...
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Categories:
self deceiving, addiction, dark, introspection, poverty,
Form: Free verse
The Dream
...Adrift in the coldness of a dream
A laughter echoed with shivery
Haunting every unredeemed souls
Of those who are denied and weary.
Echoing yells and constant weeps
Those cries are more excru...
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Categories:
self deceiving, dream, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Integration
...Being an American in Australia isn’t easy,
but I’m trying to integrate;
I’m trying to fit in.
Just one of the boys with all the right expressions
under my belt, like:
pasty glu...
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Categories:
self deceiving, culture, immigration, international, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
In the Bedroom
...In the Bedroom
Cool, callous, catatonic in the calm silence
About to experience the virtues of violence
In his mind, the blind eye was violations seeing
What flicker of light in her eyes, simply...
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Categories:
self deceiving, desire, violence, women,
Form: Free verse
Fifty-Percent: a Paradox
...Power is too devastating a concept for the groundlings to scourge on.
Instead, we thrive on inspiration,
A hope that things could change.
And those luxurious bourgeoisie that roam the outskirt...
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Categories:
self deceiving, introspection, passion, people, visionaryred,
Form: Prose Poetry
Altruist
...Altruist stands against Egoist,
Against his own life stands;
Red with blood his eyes are,
Plucked by his selfless hands.
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Altruist follows the leader,
Who knows not...
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Categories:
self deceiving, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
Challenging the Mirror
...Deepening my answers
Another challenger awakes
To reveal to me my shadows
To then witness my mistakes
Always I had listened
In close proximity
To self-inflicted violence
To the end of harmon...
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Categories:
self deceiving, childhood, forgiveness, introspection, life,
Form: Lyric