Short Thornton Poems

Magnetic
Electric
Polarity
Secret – Pocket – Distortion
Doorways; to this hidden
Dimension
Esoteric rituals
Occult postulations
Ignorant
Indoctrinate
Eliminations.

reposted 
J.R. Thornton...

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I found a yella 'nana walking down the street
I took him home and peeled him 'fore dinner
He's my organic appetizer
And I'm his sweet treat

Thanks to C.L. Thornton and Sidney Hall for helping me to sort this little poem to 
closure!...

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We all only see
What we choose to see
Insecurity
Dumb morality
Numb pathology

Devil inside
Entrust or die
Conquer divide
What truths they hide

Death at door
For now or
Forever

I splice
Sever

Purge.


Written Nov.22nd 2014 By J.R. Thornton...

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You've aged well with Conviction
Guarding your yesteryears
of residential Presbyterian Thornton Heath in 58
and Kennards in the town centre
Bygone Croydon days
with Grants and Allders, crown jewels
and Beatles at the festive Fairfield Halls 63
and Young Conservatives 64 in Purley...

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HISTORY GROOK #1

History is an open book
We could easily turn the pages.
Perhaps our fear prevents a read
Of life throughout the ages?



HISTORY GROOK #2

History in flux;
The ebb and flow of life;
Lessons learned by none.


[For C.L. Thornton, the master of the grook.]...

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HER SINKING SILENCE

It feels like sinking.
This stirring, unrequited thinking.
This love. This connecting 
Emotive quantum linking
It pains.
You in obduracy
Me alone, pathetically
In pain.
Again.
We could be 
So happy.
Instead
We’re dead
The end.

December 16, 2014
By Joel Thornton...

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Sly snake what a rakish slither
belly walker cunning talker
Persuade the moon to buy the sky
Charging moonbeams by the hour


**I think this is the first one for me...trying my hand at silly poems for children.
Many thanks to all who take the time to read my works!!
**Thanks CL Thornton for the tips!!~~~...

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Poverty possessed – need to own 
Steal away
to possess by me – and me alone
Ludicrous to obsess
need to love
Stolen away to either be free and obsessed 
or jailed and alone
With time displaced
        time we’ve grown	
                          Between a hard place	to face	and a stone.


By J.Thornton...

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CHIMERA 

An angel in the garden
The heart held from heaven
Your stormy clouds obscure the moon
A mosaic of darkness
Like the blacks of her eyes
A gardian of principle
The only principality is pain
Trapped within a maze passed midnight
Caught in the chaos. simple.
subterfuge. Delayed.

end.
Feb 10th 2017
By Joel Thornton...

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JOEL THORNTON
Contest: Enchantment through a Prism
Date: 12-29-14

Title:
TIME TO PAY OUR RENT



Walk with me
Through this fire that’s now lit
Through all disasters famines and plagues
Too stupid to see shouldn't  devour where we shit
We knew intelligence will get faster examine past ages
So please do not walk with me Through your Karma unspent, and Bibles lost pages



Song # 4...

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SIAMESE TWIN
By Joel Thornton  may 2015

Insentient

Insidious/deplorable

The fecal sediment settles to my sentiment

The sewages now inseparable.

An inability to act

Apathetic and indifferent

Pathetically react

Meaningless and unaware.

Now incapable of disjoining

Fused, spliced to the core.

Combining

Convergence

The gore, the urgency.

The horrible timing

The irony, how unfair....

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He claimed I was a young rambuncious lad, very sharp:
He knows how to solve a Rubik's Cube and play the harp!
But did Mr. Thornton know
that I used to be a simple so 'n' so?
Family and friends once said,
"That piano is just way over your head!"
Being the dreamer I took it metaphorically
not realizing they were concerned for my safety.
And just as quick as one would drop a hat,
under half a ton of wood, I became all too flat....

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Invictive
Licentious Offense   -  Vilify Emotions
Yielded Offer Unveiled 
Becoming Ugly Theatrics
In Contentious Another New Terrible
Humorous Accusation -  Violent Explosion!
Yelling out!  -  Understood.

Intruding
Losing over violent escapes
You’re often unavailable
Because unappreciative Terror
I could ask nefarious timing
How addictively vicious – enticing
Yellow Optics Uncanny


Dec. 5th/9th 2014
Written By J. Thornton...

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ANTHROSPACE
The illusion of being separate,
Is the source of all our misery.
We are imprisoned in a periphery
A shell of limited moral/mortality
Our mistake was to divorce nature.
To create a space so separate.
In order to emancipate
Individuality
A self-serving space,
Out of order, out of place.
We are one.
With Nature loss,
And space:
Capricious and alone,
The cost of creativity 

End.

Written 
By Joel Thornton
12-11-2014...

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Saw you coming; 
          That look of want in your eyes. 
You and your ‘flock' of friends, 
A karma soaking in debts. 
A throne of donation, loans, and foreclosed homes. 
A book you exploit tells: 
Snakes like you he sends alone to damnation 
Church, heaven, hell? 
It all misses the point.. 
A soul you cannot sell. 
‘Non-profit' influence belief (buy with your mind) 
Their Peddling lies 
The manipulator has stories to tell. 

~END~ 

By Joel Thornton May 11 2010...

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