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Best Poems Written by David Maxoptimism

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Deadwood

Acacia tree satel’ the prairie land 
 
townsfolk gather the witnessing stand 
  music man muster the rhythm band... 
    a waltz they played, 
gravedigger prep a solo grave, 

shackles jingle accursed limbs... 
   hands & feet, 
each thwack step... weak, weak, weak,
 
hidden from popular sight 
   a woman, Abigail, weep  
latched onto mercy’s flee. 
hers the lie condemned the meek, 

hangman readies the gallows floor 
  spring-door  springs,  dangling legs swings, 
neck snaps a hoarsen gasp, 
                        buckeyes bleed,

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Kindle

Once dolorous by 
     the might of 
   disaster's lick 

and hope flick 
  the luminous Cross 
and it was... ‘Red’ 

RedCross, 
   flame eternal wick

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Of Seekers

Heat laden dust 
 fluff scorch searing 
desert plains---
     earth seems aflame; 

gust twirl 
   it's stinging grains, 
rays of sun bake 
 minds of us who dare & 

foray hamlets that 
   know not rain, too 
tame austere in name

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Love Missed While Waiting

Westward blown… 
sprinkled mist of wind’s wisp 

bathed in summer’s blazing heat 

upon iron frame bench I sit 
my legs they dangle above madness, 
sandy ledge, 
not a cloud shield me from sun’s bake 
baking my starving arms… 
hunger’s thrum 

I wait here for love to come 

my eyes they roam the torrent angry sea 
splash of wave’s cast swab my face 
amid gentle breeze 

so consumed with the wind’s mist,
   the sun’s bake,   the sea’s splash,   
my hunger’s sass  
I missed the love that walked pass 
 
daydreaming… what a drag!

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Thread of Dreams

Dangling upon 
       thread of dreams 
forbidden love snagged 
   arousal... unseen, 
for a maiden clove 
                              serene

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Normality

Normality

ills of academic hordes...
  sought to lampoon the rest 
 into robotic construct 

notable exploits ~wings of creativity~ 
 via abnormality
certainty of hordes' unquizz 
  fore they conceal 

wee might in twilight’s hour 
 meager lab’s florescent 
shine dimly against darkness peep 
 of night starry

luminesce cuff 
  lonely Scoffer draped in madness 
abnormalities 
  isolate unknown gene’s molecule 
dispel horde’demic norm   

certainty of normality quizzed 
   by abnormality… fore 
he is said not to be illuminati

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To Escape Inequity

In the years of 
nineteen-hundred and sixties 
in palm of muggy 
Mississippi Delta 
we would walk around 
in thick & bitter air, 
we would hide 
in denial’s shadow 
too witness laissez-faire 
across forbidden tracks, 
then I, as a child, nine or ten, 
would sleep 
and dream of flying, 
of flying above thick 
& blinkered, & pungent clouds 
into flare of 
greeting nihility, 
and as I would awake 
for another chronic day 
rustlers mounted 
jimmy crows 
awaits to shatter our rise

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Torn Vestments

Upon swollen knees 
        beg mercy... please! 

surely hail showers 
     dirty deeds 
    save only deity forgive 
     thieves of moral trust... pan liars, 
    bloviating from tainted pulpit 

surely hell awaits 
               ,demonic soul, 

from pious froth, 
        earnest turn shoulder cold

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Convene from Keepers Rebellious Gallery

Brother. O Brother.
   O when when we were callow 
	In days young  Shakers  of the movement before 
gray & silver turned our locks we held in idol 

	Spree even damned were we 

	Lessen a very score ’til callous became un-sore 
away had you myth into the far-off seeking a northern star  
	Thus did dim of you re-turn filled 
privileged besiege ferrying scripted jots of the novel are 
	deluged in assure 

Brother. O Brother. 
	Dont forthwith tell to me nor else what I do not  
forth I have continued a militant pace 
	Dont mid uncommon lot tell to me nor else  
demur girding resistance rebellious plot

	If you must speak a hair tell 
of owned stead mid factional fight  In the absence 
	tell of owned gallant march for quality rights 

	If adapt if no longer a sworn knight 
tell of owned rationalism of moralism the plagiarism of 
Quisling plight ill-gots   Are you not at will zealot  

Brother. O Brother. 
	Here in the brawling depth the course bowl clear  
onward the struggle un-stop  
	You we in pledge had warrant to our brethren aged  
to carry the pillars in lift 

O out furthest yon you hither re-turn elope dystopia sum utmost grift   
	—whitewashed literacy  alien pensive — these snares  gate 
earnest mental width so readily turncoat gift  
	in errand of handmade suits and seasoned goose  
be too un-loathed the dandy one who tend the noose 

	Steady are the angered us of sternly force 
undue toil seizing liberty under conquer 

Brother. O Brother.  
	If for reasons untold at sun’s godly will alms’ shine 
shalt fetch flicker of brotherly chime 
	O the left-behind aggrandizing autocrat-kneeler sprawl  
as liken wayward owl  
	cant find luminous in eyes of kinship kind — formed 
across absolutist allured far-off whereat darken desert loom 

	Muse this   Steely-dusk rise leap desert’s sandy sweep   
to the heavens it seeps to hand the moon its imposing greet   
	if for reasons untold

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Petulance Gone Wild

twerking minds rain, 

   sins are a-flame 

aloof corset a-blame, 

                             and fame...