Short Disparaged Poems

A decade and two,
He has persevered and toiled,
Basic needs unmet.



April 16, 2022....

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Processes

Are sometimes

Disparaged because

There is no

Immediate revelation

Of This..

Until..it seems

The process itself

Is found to be

Already This...


(This is a poem relating to what is called non-duality. As are most others.)...

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I have no regard
for other poets
how could it be other

As they conscript
the words away
of which I’ve not discovered

A battle royal
zero sum
as phrases block and parry

The winner left
his voice reclaimed
— the loser most disparaged

(The New Room: February, 2024)
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Living alone
in quantum space
vibrations
dually churn

Hiding behind
a simple rhyme
their essence 
undiscerned 

Turned into words
exposed at last
where time and
memory join

Feigning the praise
for something they’re not
disparaged
— and purloined

(Villanova University: May, 2024)
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  Got married
    settled down
  Bought a house
    heart o’ town

  Three kids later
    left my job
  Wife lost faith
    ceaseless sobs

  Bitter divorce
    lost my shirt
  Five human beings’
    feelings hurt

  Is there a way to
    hold onto each other 
  For now I reside in ~
    the garage of my brother
 

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A groundbreaking weather struggle has evolved today 

over the length of this Year,s chill

Early Spring said Staten Island Chuck 

forecasting through the muck

 whilst he was disparaged as a quack 

by Puxstawney Phil

 Whichever rodents predictions fits you best

it might be time to second-guess

 whether Puxstawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck 

need to take a new meteorologist test!...

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Triple cointreau not a good idea.
I read books before they are thrown on the fire.
Leviathan and Iliad
Good books sometimes seem bad.
This land I inhabit not a place I want to be.
A desperate odyssey set for home.
Vodka and a redbull so disgusting.
Everyone I meet so distrusting.

Idle in a dream I sit.
Disparaged of a life that I skit.
A divine misery I write and live.
And in Inferno I die.
As silently I lie.
Sleep takes me
Sleep takes me.
Sleeping.
Silently....

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The lifetime of a mayfly is a
single day leading to eternity,
while a single day for a man 
may be lost and ever forgotten

Within seven days mayfly 
colonies die, while for
months and years a man 
lives silencing own breath 

Within a single week flowers
in a vase bloom to rot, while
throughout decades a man is 
stuck in a rot unskilled

The speed of time is a virtue to
flowers and flies, while the speed 
of time kills a fading man with
regrets and disparaged sighs...

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