Short Causality Poems

Causality before truth
truth before causation
Universal in transference
inextricably defined

An atom of veracity
a little bit pregnant
Plato through Lewis
—reality entwined

(Rosemont College: October, 2022)...

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Neath six feet below.
Lie his old bones.
A causality of war.
As Millions before.
The Young with the Old.
Those rich or poor.
For Want of More. 
A Human Resource.
Neath cold gray stone.
Engraved Unknown.
Lie his old bones.
Forever Alone....

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Young men, 
Women and children,
Fleeting their land,
A war destroying their country,
An enemy they can’t seem to understand, 
“we are freeing you from your leader’s tyranny,
slaughtering you all is a war causality...”
On embers and ashes 
an empire of democracy shall be built,
Oh... The irony....

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P roposals of ferocity
R eciprocity not dichotomy
O bession with Nationality
P ain of need causality

A nger at villains not “our kind”
G overnment control for all time
A lliances of “have’s”, corporate crime
N etworks owned, political grind

D emocracy; sought, search, FIND!
A ll this spells PROPAGANDA
    Control of our minds....

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You can't make me
You can't make me bad
You can't make me broken
Sadness just an illusion
A mind a mass of sparking wires
Find it jumps to wrong conclusion
You make me happy
Causality creates a cadence
As feeling fixed follows you
Though the sudden drop off
Is entirely mine to own
I'm inexplicably mended by your music
You can't make me
I offer myself...

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Time;
Intersection of motion
Crossing paths
Unfathomable
But occasionally understandable
With its movement all about
Crossing in,
Then crossing out
Before it was a thing in the first place
Causality a fraud,
When you can move throughout time.
When you can move throughout time
Sanity becomes often lost,
When and where get all muddled up
In the bowl of Space and Time...

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In a place full of technicalities,
And immorality,
Many search for financial immortality,

Few fight feelings of gravity,
Unable to agree with reality,
Another casualty, accepted casually,
Blind faith of causality?

Bad or good,
Yet not so simple,
Sword of shield,
Choice is instrumental,

Black and white, are details,
On track, not derailed,
Subliminal messages make things seem,
But where's the grey area in between?...

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My past glimmers. 

Like spikes of metal, bent by hammers. 

My crooked past prods me into the present. 

So I may forget those that I used to resent. 

I remember my family’s last smiles. 

I would see them again, but not for a while. 

I thought I would become a monstrous memory of theirs. 

I try to hold onto them by a hair. 

That is cut by shards of reality. 

As I lose all sense of causality....

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When I dream, my Dreams are spiced with Sodium 
That is dripping down thy Spine every time you tremble 
Impossible to distinguish is the finest Darkness
From every chaotically rearranged Thread of Coal
Framing thy Face, thou, Princess descended from the Times 
While Marble was still pale and the Olive wild 
Acroteria still consisting just of fresh Flowers
Arranged as carefully as the inevitable Causality of our Love...

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*Image of Apple Pickeress by Pixabay

A Slice of Hope

An apple announces avarice appealing advice
before behemoths bite biblical bits by
connection, can causality creatively compromise chronology
distancing disastrous demonic development duly dissuade
eating Eden's elated enlightenment edibleness evermore?

2022 August 03
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 August 07...

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Do you see my folly?
It strikes me every.
Flying bolts of guilt and shame,
Seek me out and call my name.
You may see them, you may not,
But I doubt it for you know naught.
An assault of unsaid words,
A rush of possible consequences.
What will happen?
That's the point.
Possibilities of actions,
Effects and reactions.
All this burns inside,
Waiting for the truth you cannot reveal, 
For you fear the truth,
And the wounds it won't let heal....

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Who is to question who I am? 

And for what I do?

I'll tell you who I am.

I'm the one you wish you knew in all your sorrow,
gather with me while you wallow.

There is no fake recognition of your causality,
accept and swallow your reality.

I don't play games even though you wish I would,
I feed off of all that is anything but good.

No mistaking me for who I am or cease to be.

I'm that fear in the back of your mind.

If you can't see me then you are truly blind....

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Bipedal beings moving with
extra emotional thrust
Triangular sight triggers
kinetic causality — 
Death forfeits life
An attached third arm
goes to the concealed side
Legal modifications
make for cybernetic relations
Metal and flesh merge,
inseparable 
since their hunter moon birth
Tripod creatures
who pass through the smoke
of the atmospheric burn
The third arm
teaches the symbiotic host
how to cancel the metallic consequences
of the fatal revolution turn...

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Dear Mrs butterfly I ask that you remain perfectly still 
‘For if your wings quiver for the slightest of  moment’s  ‘
then that action could kill .

I’ll bring you nectar and keep you warm and safe 
‘ but for the sake of us all remain static in that place .

Oh beautiful lady pray don’t flap your wing 
‘because of the unthinkable ramifications that it could possibly bring.

Stay where you are and please never forget ‘
That the world apparently balances on your fluttering effect ,XX...

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