Reality or Falsehood
is it real?
am i real?
are you real?
is anything around us real?
everything is perceived as fake.
i know it’s there.
i know it exists.
but for some odd reason,
it all feels hoaxed,
surreal,
dull,
empty,
ambiguous.
but why?
if i know people exist, objects are real, and my feelings are real,
so why does everything feel misplaced?
lost, even.
i discern as if i am fraud.
it’s a
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Categories:
vs., conflict, confusion, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Great Debate
(“Citadel of Light Merit Badge”, 2016, original pen and ink)
The Great Debate
The great debate in buddhism
Specifically in ancient Tibet,
Was between the sudden and gradualist schools.
Even though the event is apocryphal
And never actually happened,
It’s a good and relevant story
Because it is the debate that happens to this day
Between students and teachers,
Dharma brothers and sisters
And within our
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Categories:
vs., allegory, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
The elegance of privilege
Privilege is elegant
Graceful, as it glides like a breeze
Unnoticed by those who catches its attention
Noticed by those who live in the shadow
Although it's voice not loud
It's presence demands to be heard
It's violence shows in its hidden claws
Knowing when to pounce and when to be quiet
It lives within recognition
And if quick smiles
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Categories:
vs., discrimination, power, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Mind Vs Heart
Poem of the day
My heart and brain, a constant fight,
A war within, day and endless night.
Emotions rage, like a stormy sea,
While logic whispers, "Think clearly."
Love and reason, in discordant sway,
My heart beats strong, while my brain says "wait".
Feelings flood, like a tidal wave,
While facts and reason, my passion try to save.
In this battle, I'm
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Categories:
vs., heart,
Form: Rhyme
POLK COUNTY EMPLOYEES CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION McLAUGHLIN VS FLORIDA ABOLISHING MIXED MARRIAGES
THANK YOU JESUS FOUND A NEW HOME WHERE VETERANS AND BROWN PEOPLE OUR RESPECTED CELEBRATED AND LOVED AFTER SEVERE TERRORISTS THREATS RACIST BULLYING BY CIRO GARGANO MY JAMAICAN TALIBAN IDENTITY THIEVES HACKING INTO OUR LIVES THREATENING VIETNAM WAR HEROS EXTORTING VETERANS TO FUND GARGANO CRIMINAL GROUP OF POLK COUNTY AS MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS IN
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Categories:
vs., allah,
Form: Naat
Joy vs bliss
caged in a form in this domain
fleeting is joy as also pain
since we feel not one with the source
thus are prone to struggle and strain
if we give up the use of force
discarding feral instincts coarse
befriending silence, love entwined
we read script of bliss penned in morse
head melds with heart, love aligned
one with oneness, the truth’s
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Categories:
vs., spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Puzzles vs Riddles
A puzzle’s like a riddle
You hope to be surprised
But to solve a real-good riddle
I often close my eyes
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Categories:
vs., success,
Form: Rhyme
Correlation vs Causation
When you look around at the world
How do you know
If it’s correlation or causation in effect?
You don’t.
The only way to really objectively know
Is to subjectively know
Which means we don’t really know squat
About the larger world outside our bubble.
And this ambiguity
Leaves us open to suggestion and doubt
And manipulation and control
By those with more confidence.
The truth
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Categories:
vs., life, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Conceptual vs factual
in the heart of the absolute
an intent arose
to manifest as a soul seed
then see how He grows
hiranyagarbha: cosmic egg
shaped like head ovoid
was the first manifestation
pure and unalloyed
both immanent and transcendent
Self as living light
crystallised then as body-mind
where ego blurred sight
earth life’s real and yet a dream
twirled by gunas three
yet light innate cannot be
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Categories:
vs., self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Memories vs Merits
The good times, and fitness
In albums borne witness
Disappoint on the test
That determines one’s ‘rest’.
The stakes can be raised
By giving G-d praise,
Respecting a spouse
Within one’s own house,
Being noted Above
For doling out love,
And enriching ascent
On the charities spent.
Descendants who’ll place
On the mantle, Grand’s face
Will frolic near the shelf
Making memories of self.
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Categories:
vs., grandchild, grandparents,
Form: Rhyme
Black joy vs the world
They hate us not because we’re bad but because we are everything they cannot be
Because while they stew in their own misery
Formed from their own jealousy
We live life fully
Because that’s the beauty of Black people
We create joy where joy has been locked out
Then try to hide it through false superiority
Whilst trying to convince the
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Categories:
vs., beauty, discrimination, joy, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Good vs Pleasant
Ego, the thought we are this body-mind,
delusion, since we’re in truth living light,
so good is that which leaves desires behind,
all transient pleasures that opaque clear sight.
To reclaim our light that banishes night,
thought cessation is the optimal way,
joyful heart like a child, given to play.
Employing our free will, God-search the quest,
body-mind then is like a car
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Categories:
vs., introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Jofra vs Burmrah the crown jewel duel
Is there any other sort of sport.. that can hold a candle to having to handle
Getting caught in the ripsnort onslaught scandal…as speedsters hold court
Fraught as they face a serious deleterious imperious express pace ace
At their sleek peak..unique freaks..bombastic..iconoclastic mercenaries
Havoc to wreak on adversaries.. and their own physique..
So as we’ve read..will the King of swing..zing
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Categories:
vs., sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
CLOUD VS CROWD
Just attempting to compare CLOUD
having simili with word CROWD.
Words are changeable to view :
Replace L by R : U by W.
Both Cloud and Crowd appear in mass
Common factor ! Oblivious.
Cloud
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Categories:
vs., fun,
Form: Couplet
Black people vs the world
No your burdens are not for us to carry
We know your game
You fake a smile
Bat your little eyelashes
Pretend you care
Then reveal your true motive
You want us to fight your battles for you
But when we need help
On your end all we hear is silence
While you sit back and watch
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Categories:
vs., color, discrimination, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
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