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The Night That Changed EveryThing
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By: Mister Más Sobre Nosotros
For: The El Patrón Observador

              Rubato Relacional
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Perhaps the experience can shift seamlessly
seamlessly through  beautiful emotional highs
and obsessive behaviors
cautiously planning for the future
without any assurance or care
seeing things as normal speaking a 
beautiful story when the narrator is
more matter of fact instead of that hopeless
romantic one neither swoons or are happy
in your sight and away from you ,you are only 
a point of reference of Rubato were the shift
in romance to unromantic is heard
no support for depending 
in every stage of romance 
the survival mechanism allows you
to keep your faith for hope might
the tables turn
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Damp Subject

I am here to confide it's countrywide
as whenever the British gather together
the first topic of their conversation
is almost always the inclement weather
whatever precipitates such predominant
drizzle discussion drenching debate
or downpour discourse
I do not know and cannot relate
soggy foggy or boggy it's one and the same
altho' it's plain we know where stays the rain in Spain
it has also been seen to land on England's pleasant green
yet after such falls mostly all goes down the drain
yet without its descent on the Emerald Isle
there'd be no rainbows to make me smile
but fleeting I do remember it well and can recall
out of three hundred and sixty-five it was the one day
when nothing liquid dripped down from the sky
and as a result last year summer was on a Monday

Premium Member Subject matter

The title of a poem is what seems to attract interest
Sometimes not many views  so change the title,
 maybe twice or thrice the viewing  numbers  increase with added zest


On the subject of BORROWED DESCRIPTIONS ----My quest to appreciate my island roots

I live on an island in the Pacific region
The largest body of water is the OCEAN
Like, can we be more Pacific?

I think Christopher Columbus got lost
Because the directions were not pacific 

Oh, excuse me, the Pacific Ocean
Where you will find the small islands (Micronesia)  
Where you will find the black islands (Melanesia), 
Where you will find the many islands (Polynesia) 

Generally, the islanders are like coconuts
So hard on the outside
But succulent on the inside
Yet they always end up wanting Samoa

Get this,
An assault by an Islander
is called a Hawaiian Punch

At times, these islands need a therapist when they are in a tropical depression 
Some islands have sunk
Oh no do not laugh
That is not funny atoll
Sea yourself out

Therefore, I live on an island
A small island
I am a MICRO
I mean, how can I get more pacific than that?

The Overthinker's Mastery

I said a lot to myself 
Without spitting any words.
I created the world where 
Talking is a waist 
But thinking is a curse.

No body heard me talking 
But I said a lot to myself. 
I traveled over mountains 
Even the skies were beneath my fit
But soul and flesh was there with 
Everyone. 

I've seen a lot and I kept talking
But no one heard me, until I was quite.
I felt craziness in me
But I realized that I'm not
Alone in this curse.

Most people failed on this subject 
And end up in a ward with high walls
but I've mastered the art of soul 
Searching.
Continued with the conversation 
In my mind.
Laughing is norm
And silent cries filled with hope.
Questions asked but 
Answers are minimal. 
All I can do is to overcome
Overthinking be normal 
Like everyone and every body else. 

Overthinking is a curse...

Toothsome Subject

“Why is it called a toothbrush?”
(he asked rhetorically)
as I use it to brush more than one
it makes no sense to me
surely 'teethbrush' would be correct
for dental care and gums
so from now on that's what I'll use
to remove food residue between my teeth
while I still have some


A Qualitative Report on a Single Subject Ego Death

Hypothesis:
What is an ego anyways
Are we born with it
And from the moment we have the willpower 
we’re tasked with muting it
Or does it grow from experiences of rejection
Fed by whom? 
Is it intrinsically preserving,
Extrinsically repelling…
For the sake of avoiding philosophical debate
Let’s say we have an agreed upon theory

Experiment:
I’d like to think my ego dissolved
The moment my mother dropped me
From her arms before I ever had a chance to challenge Piaget’s concept of object permanence 
And when I plummeted to reality
I landed upon the selfless idea
That if their need for affirmation 
Could supersede my need for survival
Then I could keep from ever falling so tragically again

Analysis:
And though ego death happens in silence
It’s showboating that sustains ego life 
Suppose one without the death 
could never question their impulses. 
Without an initial fall
The ego can’t even see it’s own reflection

Premium Member A Weighty Subject

   Appetites grow

    Metabolism slows

Premium Member the subject is sleeping -1-

sleep something away
thing trades day ~ that's slept away
e'er slept day away

to burn the candle
at both ends ~ workaholics
early grave earners

sleepover at friends
or your place ~ white Lab/doghouse
spare room o'er garage.

to let sleeping dogs
lie ~ let go say no more ~ OR
stir the fire and burn

to go to bed with
the chickens mean early to
bed early to rise

to sleep with fishes
gangster talk ~ murder dump in
body of water

Premium Member the subject is sleeping -2-

to lose sleep over
a person or per thing just
sleep dream best not worse
-OR-
to lose sleep over
a person or per thing then
just stay up and worry

to put one or thing 
to sleep one is bored to sleep
or euthanized pets
-OR-
to put somebody
                               to sleep read H*'** P**'** <--told Tolstoy keep writing
verbosities yikes/writes

rocking to sleep use
back-forth-motion helps ~ OR
use real rocks ~ they'll sleep

Premium Member the subject is water -4- FINAL

water under the
bridge ~ past wrongs can't fix life flows
free of wrongs can't fix

I'll go to pay the 
water bill ~ means someone will
go to urinate

to walk on water
 ~ do the impossible that
which is difficult

carry fire in one
hand and water in other
hand ~ meant to deceive

throw the baby out
with the bath water ~ means junk 
and jewel gets tossed

to spend money like
water ~

Premium Member the subject is water -3-

muddy the waters
 ~ taking all the footwear when
the rain starts to fall

Father waters he'll
hold ~ I swear it's gospel truth
chicken little's right 

pour cold water on
should stop fights with you ~ but not
all sayings perfect

uncharted waters
 ~ idea map for ships to
follow make-up one

be water off a
duck's back ~ finger pointing an
axe to grind slander

blood is thicker than
water ~ our family line
has drawn our pure blood

Premium Member the subject is water -2-

fish out of water
 ~ drowns to death in an ocean 
of new blue yonder

one can talk under
water ~ is Aussie's saying
one who's talkative

like a duck takes to
water ~ are folks showing off
acting like a duck

to dip one's toe in
the water ~ are baby steps
slow start to master

one oar in water
 ~ is home lights left on while light
in your brains is off

get one's head above
water ~ is to stand up tall
and see how shallow

Premium Member the subject is rain

to rain on someone's 
parade ~ is spoil ruin someone's
fun joy happiness

saving for rainy
days ~ are when good turned bad and
you're ready for it

raincheck ~ simplify's
life scheduled prupose arranged
sequentially yours

charge it to the dust 
and let the rain settle it
 ~ just pay or get out

come in out of the 
rain ~ it's a losing battle
wake up to the facts

it’s raining pitchforks
British to rain stair rods ~ is
to rain heavily

Premium Member the subject is water -1-

if you are in deep
water ~ you're in a fix/catch
can't patch nor fix it

blowing thing/s out from
water ~ is winning and let
the loser know it

to be like oil and
water ~ whence aha moment
be a couple's fate 

to cast one's bread on
water ~ whence thank you's silence
is golden ... and more

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