Metaphor Society Poems

Do I remember when...

Better breezes blew
Cleaner waters flowed
Teasing memory so... 

For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you?
Softly now, in your own...

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Rebel/artist/slave, a long, long, near lone life spent swimming against

a bourgeois tide, he makes shore one last time, drags himself back 

onto the beach: a...

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Committee of Vultures

There they sit squabbling
Up in a tree or on the ground
Waiting greedily for the next carcass
Laughing, they don’t care how it got dead

Always...

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Freedom with far    Freedom with         Order with less      Order...

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Man O’ Man can’t conquer the mother!
Hitherto, the quoth be gather.

To the havoc, thy avarice, foment;
The virulence is a channel of chastisement.

Man O’ Man can’t...

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("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)

Love is Love - and other absurd truisms

“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to...

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A society full of,

Self
Obsessed 
Cruel
Individuals
Absorbing 
Lies

Manipulating 
Egos 
Despicably
Influencing 
Aesthetics....

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Sensitive skin 
Scraped by sensitive information
If I don't know who I am, then what will I tell everyone? 
A scuba diver without his mask is...

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The sheer maintenance of the probability,
Nothing is comparable to our garrulous mendacity.
Nothing can be called a consummate pattern,
Except for any tremendous aching, this life would...

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One day, a petty thief 
Stole a piece of bread.
She dashed away in a spiff
“Stop her!”, the trader yelled.

Along came a couple who,
Upon hearing the...

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Trying to normalize 
My differences
They took my spine
And crumbled it
As a stale bread

Now they’re enveloping 
Their parts
With my pieces

So they can taste better...

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Thunder god 
Oh, thunder god might be the harbinger of an eddy, 
He is a potent striker and a deity, 
Yet his mind bores him...

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Mysterious box
Speaking word salad's accent
           Withering to rot...

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a thousand tragedies paned
onto the community headlines
slashes the idle spirits

the wound enrages them to
seek out sadistic glee for the sake
to title themselves as  'woken.'

pitchforks...

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Amidst the savannah roam conniving beasts,
Their motives mask their actions all too well,
In politics, their power never ceases,
Nigeria's fate, it seems, they seek to quell.

A...

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