Tag: Poetry
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Your Heart Is As Black As Night
Your Heart Is As Black As Nightby Melody Gardot Your eyes maybe wholeBut the story I’m told is your heart is as black as nightYour lips maybe sweet such that I can’t competeBut your heart is as black as night I don’t know why it came along at such a perfect timeBut if I let…
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Small White Goats
Small White Goats small white ‘goats’bait for insidious ‘wolves’at our cognitive gates sacrificial offeringstied to metaphorical postseasing guilty complicity the ‘wolves’ of conformityand turning a blind eyeslavering over our disingenuous sacrificial offerings –LE
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An Homage To Man
I made the mistake of listening to the so-called ‘news’ one morning, and that ‘sewage’ prompted this, my response… Homage To Man testosterone-soaked psychecognitive dissonance on a rampagecivilization swan-song based onme, me, me techno-innovator, mankilling each other more efficientlygenocide, ecocide, suicide forprofit and power, what a noble plan yes, cognitive dissonance runamuck in the testosterone-soakedpsyche…
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Music Of The Universe
Music Of The Universe long agoPythagoras speculatedmusic of the spheres physics of the quantumhas shown usthat all is vibrationsabove and belowaudible soundcosmic raysto the molten metalsin the hearts of stars every atom within usvibrates to a frequencyall its ownbut harmonic resonancebuilds the strengthand powerour own frequencyan edifice of harmonysympathetic wavesmusic of the universe perhaps evenmusic…
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February Morning Ride
February Morning Ride first ride with electronic assistheart attack hills no longer resist blue sky abovemarbled withwhite fluffy clouds while the vistasnorth through southbutt up against mountainsriver gorges and high passesthe main ways out the interim planes filled with yellowBrittlebush and Greasewoodlike pastel paintingslandscapes hung to wow only a few walkers and ridersin the morning…
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Profound Rest
Profound Rest too many bemoantheir experiencesand hardshipsas ifthey played no rolein the twistsand turnsthe highs and lowsof their lives while lives unfoldjust as they mustbased on the ‘luck’of times and placesof our birthsour complicityin and withspace-time currentsseals the dealultimately salvationis acceptanceand patiencesatisfaction withwhat we’ve attemptedand achievedwith continuing effortsto improvewith certaintyit’s enough thenprofoundrest –LE
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So Much Beauty
So Much Beauty there’s so much beautyin the world all aroundbut I find it difficultto praise it with allthe poverty and painthat abounds gazing at sun-drenched landscapeswith mountain vistasfading in the distancebrush and critter-filled riverbedwinding norththe path of least resistance social and economic promiseis nothing but bleakwhile the apex-predatorthe ‘elite’ of the human freaksguts the…
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Small Change
Small Changeby Tom Wait Well small change got rained on with his own .38and nobody flinched down by the arcadeand the marquise weren’t weepingthey went stark ravin’ madand the cabbies were the only onesthat really had it madecause his cold trousers were twistedand the sirens high and shrilland crumpled in his fist was a five…
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The Primordial Ooze
The Primordial Ooze darkness is growingand I’m oldso what to doone thing onlyfight the growing darkstrike a sparka match a candlelight a bonfire spark it whereverthe tinder liesmake daily choicesthat brightennot darkenour collectivefutures don’t be deceivedall actions have impactsmostly somewhere in betweenever brighter futuresand dystopian dreamsdark superstitionsreverse evolutionsliding backinto the primordialooze –LE – 2/11/26
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Ravens v Crows
Ravens v Crows Circling high above the dry washThe inherent unkindness and treacheryIn the ravens’ conspiracyRegarding the murder of crowsScavenging the nooks and crannies belowA conspiracy, both treacherousAnd unkind… –LE
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