Tag: Poetry
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The New Dark Ages
The New Dark Ages from the declineof the Roman Empireto the Renaissanceover a thousand years clerics and kingsdestroyed most of theancient wisdoms andsciences with burnings books and witcheswith blood-letting‘medical’ and warringconquering and conjuring religious incantationsrule by ‘divine right’butchers blessed byclerics’ sanctions it’s happening againfor the last half-centurytill who knows whenbook bannings and burnings another world…
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Blue Skies Smilin’ At Me
Blue Skies Smilin’ At Me once again on the Loopblue skies smilin’ at meover the mountian peaksand through thewinter-bared trees early Brittlebush bobs itsamarillo heads in glorioussouthwest sunshinethat washes postcardpanoramas of the high Sonoran desert a lone roadrunner exitsstage left as I scanthe nettles for ACMEroadrunner traps or anvilsand just maybe Wiley E… –LE –…
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Pensive
Pensive pensive positive perhaps memories warm and cold melancholy unresolved be happy so the song resolves left with myself alone and pensive –LE – 1/23/25
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My Moring Darkness Returning
Wrote this about the closing moments and aftermath of one of my ill-fated relationships, in case you were wondering… Morning Darkness fadingthe lyingangry voicesviolentlycrying alone againtryingsighingdying searing pain againmakes mortality plainconstant wishing forhealing rain but that’s OKwe’re all to blameonly a gameour claim to famepretty lamegoofy even I forgetwhichfirst manhis brianare theysame – same now…
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Woke Up Dreaming
Woke Up Dreamingby Joe Bonammasa Woke up dreaming I was gonna dieWoke up dreaming I was gonna die’cause my baby said herSaid her last goodbyes Reached out for her and she was not thereReached out for her and she was not thereLord, I miss her bodyAnd her long brown hair Hard rain falling, river floodBlack…
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Controversy
Controversy sandwiches of lunch meats and cheeseonce a heavy dietary influencenow makes me sneeze lactose intolerance, it seemslike most of humanity’sdietary allergies plus carcinogenic proteinsfrom animal fleshsuper processed to last forever at least at Micky-dee’s sounds appetizing, I knowprocessed foods killing youever so slowly in your sleep with incurable cancersand legitimate questionsgo unanswered from the…
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Memoir Memory – High School Silver
A humbling experience, as has been most of life so far… I was going through an old journal that rekindled a humbling experience from high school, my senior year, of an audition I’d hoped to walk away from, a big gold medal winner… It didn’t happen as I’d hoped.. Second-place Mantra I am the chosen…
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Writers of Old Collectively Groan
— From Some Old Tomes — The Deerslayer Groans Deerslayer-HawkeyeUnwilling agentChingachgook lastChief from genocideUnleashed David CopperfieldUriah HeepDark capitalistHistory seenTold and sold asHuman natureNobility civilityMust maximizePower and profitFor utility sakeA necessity Plato and AdamSmith gave coverWhile AureliusMentoredMethods andMore platitudesFor conquestNever ever rest One world ruledBy philosopher kingsWholly ownedRaped ravagedAnd squanderedThe devil’s ownApostles andPriests of theNew World…
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Fate’s Illusion
Romantics may disagree, but love is a process that must be cultivated carefully over time (IMHO)… And I was raised by a romantic (my mother) to be one; but my life experience has shown me otherwise. –LE Fate’s Illusion what are the chancesof love at first sightof a soul-mate what I see everywhere islust at…
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From My Winter Haiku Collection
Or again, from my Winter Wage-slave Collection… # 012 – Desktop In Winter Desktop in winter,cursor points at START button —mouse sits on its pad –LE
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