The Milling of Mind
...Unrealities and realities
grind together in mortar’s mouth,
spilling, pulverizing, volatile perfumes—
succumbing scents of citrus, crushed copper,
musks of bruised lightning,
threshing thunderou...
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Categories:
unrealities, change, conflict, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Mushroom God
...Millions are bowing to a mushroom God
who guides them down paths of pyrite and blackness
Minds falsely expanding into an unexplainable universe
with things mechanically terrifying and satiny glori...
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Categories:
unrealities, drug, god,
Form: Free verse
In a world of broken mirrors and half-forgotten dreams
...In a world of broken mirrors and half-forgotten dreams,
The elites weave webs of augmented unrealities, keeping souls captive.
In the vast labyrinth of the internet, fragments of truth mix
With de...
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Categories:
unrealities, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Search For Idealism
...Going within the shrine of my heart's hidden mind,
In things without, the truth I often do not find;
I dream of greatness. This I expect in others.
As each, in life, have individual druthers...!...
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Categories:
unrealities, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Idleness
...He slept under the moon
He basked under the sun
He lived a life of going to-do
And died with nothing done
The spring well and root of all vice
The canker of the mind
An appendix to nobility
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Categories:
unrealities, absence, abuse, adventure, grief,
Form: Free verse
Restless Repose
...I am broken
my bones
will not endure
this sum of
memories
feelings
thoughts
under the
loveless sun
they are crushed.
Peer long
into this grave
this pit of
despair
this black permanenc...
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Categories:
unrealities, angst,
Form: Free verse
Imagine the Unrealities
...I’ve chased my tail for thirty-seven years,
September. And I would do us all well,
my night of whittling wicks to waxen tears,
to blow my wish that truths be lies we tell
and birth a better vers...
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Categories:
unrealities, birthday,
Form: Sonnet
Clearly Understood
...Urban Sonnet
Is it so hard to say the things you feel?
Why seal up thoughts in words that beg for truth?
I braced myself to read a languid spiel
and first assayed to read it as a youth.
When t...
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Categories:
unrealities, angst, poems, poetry, song,
Form: Sonnet
The Crystal Palace
...THE CRYSTAL PALACE
The gods awoke, as they occasionally do,
and found Fred Cross in multitudes, alone.
Unconsciously aware of their unblamed fault,
they dreamed fo...
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Categories:
unrealities, angst, corruption, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 21
...The waters of the Holy Spirit stirred with strength
And commenced to churn itself alive inside the well,
Forming a new maelstrom so radiant it seemed to rise in special presentation,
Roaring its h...
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Categories:
unrealities, change, conflict, courage, devotion,
Form: Epic
Against the Raging Now
...Finger in the hole in the dike
Holding back vast volumes
Of raging emotions
Surely to sweep me away
I try some comforting
Favored music from my past
Grab a book
To distract my fear
Linger in ...
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Categories:
unrealities, allegory, angst, depression, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Add It To the Others
...The hurt builds inside, with no way to get free from within.
It’s havoc safely locked away, unable to wreak the divine chaos it so desires To spread like poison amongst cravings of unbridled fury.
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Categories:
unrealities, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse