How does one merely object to corruption?

When all that would amount to is an exhalation

A statue is made to crumble

But a statement is eternal

I’m alone again

I didn’t know loneliness like this could exist

In my “home country”

Where I hide from even myself

The insidious sensationalist ethos

Entwined with noxious entitlements

Layered in chemical chaos

Wra...

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Could we once lie

Beside the river

Throwing cuties

Rolls one to the dog

Off-put and runs after rocks

Possessed and bathed

As jugglers hoop from shore

Drinking coffee kombucha

The sun holds and stirs

Waters working toward the seas

In solstice starlight

Scarf dancers offering kettle corn

Lives are lifted

Like the fog among the giants

Now we can fall asl...

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Dreams space

Take me away

Lift me away

Far from this place

Sleep womb

Vanquish my fears

Cradle me dear

Spare me from doom

Scenescapes

Show me a world

Give me a world

That I can face

High-noon miracle

Vigilante’s tale

Visions regale

An epic spectacle

Mask the sun

Bury the basement light

Tunnel down to the warm

Superhighway...

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Bathed in basking brightness

I’m breathing your sunshine

Nectar of divine light

Offering the purest kind

Of love reflecting greatest heights

Flying far from force-fed fights

Furthest from those who fashion ill design

Seeking to stunt our inner sights

And to mute our minds

Lo,

I’ll dive inside your blossom

Budding bedding of silken seas

Part the darkness, chart f...

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Our hearts are pumping for us

Need not control

As they are controlling us

But we mustn’t speak

Or expose us to the world

What may they think?

Hiding being denied

Having never cried

From the view outside

Chemically aligned

Such intense attraction

Avoidantly sibylline

Cosmically maligned

A most brutal retraction

Abhorrently resigned

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In winter
Cave dragons’ cold breaths
The sliding serpents’ squeal
With open mouths welcoming

Carriage cars cradle
Quiet commuters
Go gently gliding
Songs and stories surround

Bodies passing brusquely
Eyes revealing nothing seen
In one shell into another husk
Awash in this subroutine

A system of total trust
The riders’ code of honor
Amused or brought to tears
Beside peculiar hy...

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A garden gypsy gathering

At the rush of passing cars

Beneath our dancing feet

Engines’ energies sweeping past

To beats of beaming hearts

Coastal breaks in the distance

Fresh mist breathing softly

Sweet solstice sweat

Jumping on the pavement

A golden trolley traveling

Procession pilgrimage

Across slumbering academia

To be drawn majestically

Into the curtains r...

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We all have a birth mother

Each of us has a name

Each has a temple

We all die

We all breathe

We all live in the dirt

We all thirst water

We all hunger sustenance

Gravity prevails

Petals shed and settle

Atop verdant leaves

Vying for the sunshine

The flower’s final blood

Bleeds-out onto the leaf

Burning brightly through

Transposing its...

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Let’s go to where

Giants often sit and stare

Where dragons puff for air

With golden rainbows in their hair

Let’s fly atop

A diamond-feathered hawk

To the moon and take a walk

And dance past thirteen o’clock

Let’s sail away

Far beyond all time

Encompassed in our lights

To the center of our minds

A place that makes you high

A place that makes you...

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Serenity Slope, Saint Sebastian

Sunday; summer solstice ’77

Second Spire

Suite 17; 66th Storey.

She’s still sleeping…

Spontaneously swooping songbirds, serenading sacred seascapes, sing sentimental songs sailing swiftly southward.

“Stop staring,” she says sleepily, shyly smiling. Somehow staring seems so surreal since seeing Sarah; seems so somatically subsistent. So smitten, so ...

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The cats play on the beachside

The crows are filling up the plaza

Dogs are squirming in the pews

And the skunks are stinking-up the casa

The possums are building earthships

The egrets are asleep beneath the porch

Snakes bathe in the sunlight

And the red eyes are aglow by the torches

The silkworms are swinging in the breeze

The hummingbirds dance in the rain

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I once knew love

As stars above

Shone down like rain

In a lightning storm

Cyclonic embrace

Enraptured my soul

And brought me to tears

When it died long ago

I once had trust

As rocks below

Sturdy like mountains

In a typhonic blow

Earthy encased

Captured my fears

And taught me to doubt

When crumbled all it endears

I once felt truth

As suns...

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The hounds of heaven howl

To the home of hunger’s call

Beds made, layered in dust

Silver flies flitter and feed

Off the dreams of once-before

Distant echoes fading away

The hanging mist of solemn chains

A twisted haze of stolen tears

This broken maze leads only to death

Through emerald bay and Tessie’s leers

Sunbeams piercing ancient shields

Now swel...

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Reality ruthlessly runs

Responsively recollect repentant revelations

Reprehensible repercussions, renowned redress

Refute regimes, religions, rackets, racism

Resist

Recommence running

Raconteurs rivetingly rise, romantics reverently resonate, reporters rigorously reveal

Ruses require representative reasons

Reminisce remorseful regions, relegated repugnantly

Resurge ...

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When lose-lose feels so sordidly satisfying
To forget the draw of win-win
What is actually leading the life-defying?
Will I ever see life like a child again?

Ask questions to quell having to champion
Swim in chemical lobotomies
Either escaped in blissful oblivion
Or dismayed by moral dichotomies

There’s kindness in self-sabotage
Buried beneath the frailty and fear
From what does one ...

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With the oldies playing nearby, I’m alive on the edge of living

Doubting if it’s worth the try to keep enjoying the losing giving

The sweet taste of mediocrity piles onto a heel of wheat

Livin’ on the heat of withdrawals, and the milk of south G street

When the taking is always off

And I find myself lost

I’ll be hanging by the door

Lookin’ for the morning frost

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A fiery brand
by darkness's heavy hand
Woefully woven into latent lattices 
of raw remembrance
Too shrouded by shame's lofty shadow
for the shallow-sighted

A tangled tether spun
from the fallen ashes
of defiled dreams
Freshly festering
like bifurcating lesions
beneath the broiling flames
of hardened hatred

The trailing tendrils
of parasitic impression
Whose burrowing roots bore 
...

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Forty-five minutes to nowhere

Maybe then I’ll feel like an adult

I could have sworn that I don’t live here

How did I become part of this cult?

Did Santa come?

Quiet! O.J.’s on the TV again!

Just another eight miles to run

Then we’ll be allowed back in the pen

It’s constantly something

Sometimes nothing, or you forget

Will I win this time for losing?

I alr...

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Q

Quadrennial quacks

Quantifiably questioned

Quotations quashed quick

Quondam quarrels queue

Quislings quibbling, quiver

Quietly quelling 

Quagmires quaking

Qualified queues quiescing

Quintessential quos

Quixotic quorums

Quadrilaterally quest

Quicksand quandary

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Pause, perchance? Pacifistic people pine pandemically. Prophetic, poetic prose proffers purpose, protection.

Please pause! Perilous, pernicious players perpetuate programmed partisanship. Precious poetry provides peace, prosperity! Please perform. Per people's possibility. Promises, palliative promises, please!

Pardon. Pardon persistence. People's paradise pulls powerfully, painstakingly. Pl...

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With breaths incomplete, more like a robot's

Who am I, if not half of a whole?

My starving heart is tangled up in knots

And the grip suffocates my soul

Dreams invade my implanted thoughts

Shiver through the pain and cold

And so I am

Seasons peaking with perfect promise

My summer flame faces the unknown

Joining the gold-bleeding artists

I strive to find a sense of...

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O

Once only of old, originated one omniscient overbearer ostensibly overseeing one ocean oasis omnipresently. Organic, open obedience over optional ordinances oriented obviated omnipotence ordinarily.

On occasion opposite order orchestrated oppressive occurrences, obligations obviously obstructed optimistic operations. Original offerings often ousted opprobrium, omitting oligarchical, offici...

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N

Now never nears. No novel news nor notable notion need negotiate navigation. Nobody, nothing, notices nature's neglected nadir.

Natty neophytes neurotically network nascent, noxious notoriety nonsensically. Naive narcissism negates noble neighborly neutrality. Now nonchalance nourishes nervous, novice negligence normatively.

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M

My muddy memories may make my meanings maculate, marred. Much mental madness, mustn't misconstrue my method. Mustering my mettle, mulling meticulously...

Myriad moons, many miles; multitudinous. My maritime migration met malevolent maelstroms, maladious moments moving, meandering.

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L

Life.
Labile lands. Legerdemain longevity.
Lucid lunar luster lingers. 
Last leviathan lake lies like liquid languor.
Lethargically, levees let loose. 
Levels lower, leaving little leeway.
Lone, lurking life lackadaisically lionizes long-lost luminaries.
Lulling landslides leathally lessen livelihood.
Lightning laconically launches like lancet laughter. 
Lurid loss looms.
Loathsome ...

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K

Kinetic kisses
Keenly kindle kilowatts
Kaleidoscopic

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J

Japanese jungles
Jade jaguars jauntily jive
Jovial jesting

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I

Inside I'm imagining idyllic inhabitances. In inchoate intangibility, I intrepidly inaugurate indomitably international iconoclasts, interring industrial intimidations. 

Innovative independence is inalienable, including impartial indigenous idiosyncrasies.

Intrinsic introspections inherently incite imbroglio innocently.

Its idea is incorrigible, if incipient.

Its inception is immi...

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H

Hurry. Halcyon havens herald happiness. 

Hostile hordes harbinge heinous havoc. Hurry. 

Horrendous human hysteria hails hallowed hunts. Holocaust heuristically hones hierarchies. Hurry. 

Head high, heed her horizons. Hold...horses here. Hide. Hush. 

Hegemonic hirelings haughtily hunt. He hears, he'll hew. Hit him hard. Hurry! 

Honorable, his head hemorrhages. Hasten! Hurtle hil...

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G

Great golden guidance
Gallant generosity
Galvanize grandeur

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F

Flagrantly flabbergasted, Fitzy flees from frenetic fiasco. Fearfully fraught, footfall flounders fast, freeing forward form forthright. 

Feral factions fecklessly feed fatal fracases, fomenting fatuous foes fervently firebranding forlorn foreboding.

Fitzy follows forsaking footsteps from fortified fortress forges, facing forest frontiers for formidable farness. Feeling felicitous, fort...

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E

Erstwhile, early evening, eight excellently equipped elephants encountered exquisitely effulgent extraterrestrial entrepreneurs esoterically extolling earthy edifices elatedly.

Each expressionless elephant experiences earfulls equalling elementally electric energy effecting ebullient epiphanies edifying enigmatic, existential envisionings.

Exulted, everyone exudes exuberant exercises eq...

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D

Do dragonfly dreams depict dystopian dissolutions? 

Did darkness dauntlessly destroy dusk's devout display describing distant daylight?

Does defending defiant descendants deem dissidents diabolically dichotomous? 

During dire discord driven deliriously duplicitous, doesn't dormant debacles dissuade deleterious dissipations? 

Do desert doctors drink dry decisions, depending determi...

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C

Chimerical clouds covet clover-covered cliffs crossing coastlined country culminating climactic cerulean concertos

Coral colonies clamour cumulatively, causing changing currents cryptically correlating copiously copacetic

Colossal causeways collude cogently, coercing clandestine cartographers callously capitulating covertly

Cinnamon chambers conspicuously confuse complacent captains,...

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B

Before bedlam, beyond babylon burning bright

Baleful brothers bring broken branches before besieging bastions built by banished barbarians

Brandishing, both battle brazenly; busted, bloody bones best blows brutally, brawling brashly betwixt burgeoning braggarts

Barren, brackish beds bolster boisterous boasting, blaring bilateral berations

Brunt bout by belligerent bout, both boys ...

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A

Abandon all actuality, anticipate any approach

Align aeronautic anchors, and advance agnostically

Ambient after-images accentuate algorithmic allegories

Ashen animal appearances adorning amber airwaves aspire authentic awe

Adroitly avoid antiquated acute angles accordingly

Abstract answers are always apparent after ambitions appreciate adaptability

Alert agreements activate ...

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*This poem comes with a preamble, and I wish I could look into all of your eyes and that you'd be able to hear my voice as I tell it. February marked one-year since I threw caution to the wind and embarked on an indefinite world-travel adventure. Unlike my other trips to Australia, Fiji, and Bolivia, I've had no plans to return; no timelines or reality to snap back into, I was really letting go of...

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