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Post by aims on Jul 26, 2015 11:19:08 GMT -6
mordant*morbid*macabre*audacity*candelabra
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There was a sick symmetry to him,
a mordant wit
a morbid preoccupation
a macabre sense of style
and the audacity to invite the unwitting guest to see it,
the candelabra,
each candle held aloft
by shafts depicting increasingly gory torture and mutilation.
he was, when divided up,
equal parts disturbingly sick,
and if you had sense, a single lick,
you'd get away very, very quick!!!
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balderdash, clod, nod, prod, sinister
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Post by aims on Aug 1, 2015 12:20:06 GMT -6
balderdash, clod, nod, prod, sinister
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She's not such a clod
I give her a nod
because she doesn't need a prod!
She's on it
and she's all that
and she will swat you like an iritating gnat!
You try for mystery
you try for sexy sinister
but your game is balderdash
too much mouth
and not enough cash.
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quirk, jerk, tinder, qualify, snarky
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Post by moseley on Aug 1, 2015 22:46:55 GMT -6
quirk, jerk, tinder, qualify, snarky
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my new account on tinder makes me feel a bit more snarky
if I qualify or that I am feelin sparky,
sparky enough to lit a fire, hoping not to get the shirk
hoping not to have to do all the work,
sometimes just to feed my new quirk
in case I need to video me doing a twerk
and trying not to feel like a jerk
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jocular, corpulent, lentil, axe, monkey
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Post by aims on Aug 2, 2015 13:05:08 GMT -6
jocular, corpulent, lentil, axe, monkey
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There's a monkey on my corpulent back
and it aint the lentil monkey
if it were. . .
I wouldn't need to give it the axe,
and my back, not to mention the rest of me,
wouldn't be so damn fat!
Jocular?
I wish. . .
oh wait, that means joking
not like a jock!!
Open mouth,
insert sock!
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caper, crock, flip, delectable, villain
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Post by phantasm on Aug 2, 2015 19:10:23 GMT -6
caper, crock, flip, delectable, villain
Flip a coin
Do the George Costanza Experiment
Chug a paradox and let it ferment in your stomach
Can the void be as delectable as a heavy meal?
Most would call that a crock
They would rather eat rocks than nothing at all
Yet
What is missing from our lives when we bolted for the nearest exit sign
in the primordial forest to begin the project of civilization?
Is suffering encoded so deeply in our genetic code that we'll never root it out?
What if we could pull a caper that ended all the schemes of all the villains in a single night?
Would anyone bother to get out of bed the next morning?
antagonist*protagonist*observer*sidekick*plot hole
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Post by moseley on Aug 19, 2015 3:00:21 GMT -6
antagonist*protagonist*observer*sidekick*plot hole
I am babalooey sidekick to Quickdraw Kneivel
the observer to love shared with Mona Lisa
as an unsung protagonist goes free from Othello
white squares,the office antagonists, dreaming
cupescent dreams in coffee cup clouds
oblivious to the plot hole, where Waldo knocks up...
knocks up Caitlyn Jenner
Spin me a yarn...make me a sweater
Tell me a lie but make me the forgotten
oligarchy; lacrimal; pundit; gorge; taciturn
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Post by aims on Aug 28, 2015 19:40:13 GMT -6
oligarchy; lacrimal; pundit; gorge; taciturn
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To the illiterate
and the under-achiever
academia seems
an oligarchy of taciturn pundits
who gorge on knowledge
sharing it with the elite worthy
whilst the lacrimal ignorant masses languish.
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Post by phantasm on Aug 31, 2015 7:13:57 GMT -6
grain, salt, wound, mountain, running
Arguing with an illogical person is like running an infinite race,
like trying to hurtle your body up an infinitely steep mountain face.
Sweating, exhausted, you look ahead and see the infinite regress of the foot path
and you see how far you will have to go before the other sees reason.
You despair. Your brain locks down in the face of a box that is a tight, circular argument.
Some circular arguments are more like ellipses, even roller coaster rides in a wicked groove.
In the end they all come back to the same place. It's the Mobius loop they use
to hit you over the head with. It wounds, then leaves salt behind in the wound.
It is their appeal to tradition.
It's their shoddy self-referential reasoning.
It's their propping up an authority and appealing to it at all costs,
even if they can see logic is not on their side. It's an offense to our intelligence.
Grains of truth are scattered all over the Earth.
Why should we stay in one place all our lives?
Logic, verse, argument, courtroom, artful
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Post by aims on Sept 2, 2015 22:43:01 GMT -6
Wow I really Love that one Phantasm!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Logic, verse, argument, courtroom, artful
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Logic is always a handy tool in an argument
but some people are just gifted
versed in the art by osmosis in the womb!
In a courtroom
or at a podium
some people are so artful
that logic seem pliant in their hands
they are able to bend and shape it into something
that appears to carve their argument in stone.
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sacrilege, heretic, hypocrite, humble, tolerant
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Post by phantasm on Sept 8, 2015 22:06:24 GMT -6
sacrilege, heretic, hypocrite, humble, tolerant
What is sacrilege?
Give me a reliable definition and we can discuss.
Do not throw the word at anything that happens to disgust you.
Please don't let yourselves become hypocrites.
If the god you worship really is:
omniscient
omnipotent
everlasting
all-loving
Can't that being defend itself from little ole me?
Heretic hunters are the worst kind of hypocrites
They should stay home popping their zits
Rather than try to make everyone everywhere think and believe just like them
Tolerate my beliefs and I will do the same with yours
Don't try to change me
I may become unreachable in return
The vastness of the cosmos rolls ever before us
The canvas of time stretches back further than anyone ever suspected before
Life is far more diverse than we had embedded in our lore
How vast does the universe have to become for you to humble yourself?
Harmony*Theme*Resonance*Allegro*Pit
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Post by aims on Oct 17, 2015 12:18:43 GMT -6
I was waiting to see if anyone would use these words in a poem about music because although I like music, all kinds, I am not that well-schooled regarding classical music, but since no-one did I used them my way. Harmony*Theme*Resonance*Allegro*Pit
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Life lived allegro. . .
no more!
I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach,
it tells me that what whizzes by
is not even registered
and therefore means nothing.
Life does need it's undefined,
un-dissected parts
but even they are not meaningless
they are just not chosen for reverse engineering.
I am seeking harmony, resonance,
with the universe.
This is the current theme of my life.
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Post by aims on Nov 23, 2015 22:40:43 GMT -6
one of the definitions of tribe is: 1. A social division of people
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wise, acre, elevation, tribe, song
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In the poet tribe
everyone has their own vibe
it's never the same old song and dance
but there is one common posture, or kindred stance,
we will defend one another's creative license & imagination
salute one anothers escalation to a creative elevation
and respect each other's acre of cyberspace.
This must be because poets are wise,
you might surmise,
and you would be right as sure as the sunrise!
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Post by phantasm on Nov 27, 2015 16:20:16 GMT -6
click, tap, slide, roll, tumble
Click on the link
tap the mouse or mouse pad
tumble headlong into something you never expected
roll up into a ball over Black Friday frustration
slide away and try again some other time.
Damn society with its' constant manipulation of prices.
All it does is sing to our worst vices and encourage impulsive behavior.
The sooner this day dies a grisly death via guillotine, the better.
steady*metronome*grandfather clock*Nile*photograph
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Post by anirbas on Dec 1, 2015 21:16:13 GMT -6
a photograph of me
with the Nile
in the background
sits beside the silent
metronome on the piano
steady tick of the grandfather clock
I paid to much for at auction
reminds me time is flying
rueful*ruthless*ribald*quintessential*empty
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Post by aims on Dec 2, 2015 21:43:29 GMT -6
rueful*ruthless*ribald*quintessential*empty
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I spent too many years rueful towards others
and ruthless with myself
until I finally realized
that those who want you guilty,
don't want you anything else,
Even when you paint yourself
into a penitent sinner,saintly humble corner
all they see is a someone willing to take the punishment
for their unhappiness in this life.
So I dropped the timid quiver
and donned the ribald humor,
I'll let the empty fill themselves up with someone elses sorry.
It's the quitessential "come back around",
because I saw it and seized it. . .
istead of waiting for it.
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Post by phantasm on Dec 5, 2015 21:36:11 GMT -6
clip, doodle, crystal, mindful, slow
Crystals form in a highly ordered way
They build slowly, over time
Like coral reefs
Or the geological layers of the Grand Canyon
Maybe a Greater Mind is just doodling with matter and energy
Perhaps they are newspaper clippings from the great beyond.
nerf herder*lightsaber*The Force*X-wing*cloud city
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Post by aims on Jan 1, 2016 9:48:10 GMT -6
can't afford to go to the movies right now and it has been eons since I saw the old ones, so I think we're going to be stuck til someone else picks it up!!! clip, doodle, crystal, mindful, slow
Crystals form in a highly ordered way
They build slowly, over time
Like coral reefs
Or the geological layers of the Grand Canyon
Maybe a Greater Mind is just doodling with matter and energy
Perhaps they are newspaper clippings from the great beyond.
nerf herder*lightsaber*The Force*X-wing*cloud city
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Post by phantasm on Feb 16, 2016 20:06:08 GMT -6
here's a new batch to try, then:
Bibliomania*eulogy*vicissitude*luminous*zenith
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Post by aims on Feb 18, 2016 16:01:21 GMT -6
Bibliomania*eulogy*vicissitude*luminous*zenith
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For me the acquisition of a Kindle
did not prompt a eulogy
of my bibliomania of the hard copy variety!
Maybe it should have,
but it did not,
merely a vicissitude that expanded my library
beyond the physical space available!
Having such a collection of thoughts, of words,
at my fingertips is luminous,
a virtual zenith, looming, verging,impending, larger than life.
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lucent, stable, intangible, concrete, beguiling
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Post by phantasm on Feb 22, 2016 19:56:26 GMT -6
lucent, stable, intangible, concrete, beguiling
Beguiling to me is the intangible
Equally mysterious is the concrete
Sometimes I look up and wonder at the universe
How wondrous and transcendent it all is
Yet it provides us with fulfilling experiences
And stability, no matter what
The universe itself is lucent,
Showing us the way to fulfillment.
microbe*mushroom*tooth*black bile*ear wax
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Post by anirbas on Mar 6, 2016 21:39:59 GMT -6
Oh, to be a microbe!
Or a tooth!
Even black bile
perhaps ear wax!
Oh, to be anything
besides a mushroom!
~*~
trumpet*strumpet*plummet*summit*audition
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Post by aims on Mar 25, 2016 22:38:49 GMT -6
trumpet*strumpet*plummet*summit*audition
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The angel who played the trumpet. . .
was definetly not a strumpet,
and there was no audition necessary. . .
just one push,
and no plummet
from the summit
was all it took,
and there I was . . .
on the hook!
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Post by moseley on Mar 25, 2016 22:53:19 GMT -6
solvent, galavant, grant, rant, costume
After breathing alot of solvent
I dare then to rant a boistrous noise
adorned in a costume of mere underwear
and tattered shirt
as I galavant and arabesque
In my best black velvet poses
and grant unto all my unsolocited musings
Like a very coherent Gary Busey
ilk talcum fulcrum lever oil
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Post by phantasm on Apr 18, 2016 16:02:54 GMT -6
ilk talcum fulcrum lever oil
Take up your talcum and make yourself pretty like all your other ilk
Put on your mask that hides all your flaws
Pour the olive oil all over your head, let it flow like milk, baptize your scars
Leverage your artificial beauty into a world of pretty falsehoods and lies
Carry on like the illusion is absolute truth
You only provide the fulcrum that will one day be exploited to hurt you.
fugitive*prisoner*illusion*gilded cage*freedom
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Post by aims on May 2, 2016 20:53:03 GMT -6
fugitive*prisoner*illusion*gilded cage*freedom
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Love . . . once held my heart prisoner!
or was it hormones?
Sex drive
and romantic longings,
they were my torturers.
Illusion had me convinced
that freedom was beyond my control
that the gilded cage of unrequited love
held me fast;
but my friends I am free, at last!!
It turns out that a strong sex and romantic drive
tied to lofty and noble ideas about love so true. . .
wasn't so true!
and freedom,
it lay in menopausal hormonal drop
caused all that tragic
longing for romantic magic
to stop!
Time does heal all
in surprising ways,
these are the good old days!
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serendipity, clause, trepidation, initiation, mist
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Post by aims on Jul 24, 2016 9:26:42 GMT -6
serendipity, clause, trepidation, initiation, mist
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Each time I buy a lottery ticket
I cast my line and grapling hook in to the mist of serendipity
without trepidation
hoping for initiation
into the world of good fortune,
but so far there is a clause I cannot get past,
it says:" you must pick the right numbers!"
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wallflower, mind, linguistic, crack, ingenuity
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Post by phantasm on Oct 30, 2016 12:22:54 GMT -6
wallflower, mind, linguistic, crack, ingenuity
Linguistic order spills out of us so easily
It's because babies are wallflowers, absorbing everything
all around them, until a crack shows up in someone's thinking
No matter how much ingenuity one has, there's no getting around that,
When it's encountered. Children are the best when they're calling out
an adult's flaws. Remember when you used to be like that?
Why does the mind abandon this habit?
Superman*fortress of solitude*kryptonite*tights*the planet Krypton
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Post by aims on Nov 24, 2016 19:38:37 GMT -6
Superman*fortress of solitude*kryptonite*tights*the planet Krypton
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Not superman
wrong parts
also don't look so hot in tights!
immune to the danger of Kryptonite
If I've ever seen the light
in the night
from the planet krypton
I'd never know. . .
but fortress of solitude,
that sits on a stem atop my shoulders. . .
part time fortress
part time prison
where the I that exists as cognizance
dwells and yet does not
for,
by virtue of it's intangible nature
it does float beyond the confines of time and space
tethered to a time and place.
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socks, stocks, tether, feather, rocks
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Post by aims on Nov 30, 2016 20:59:36 GMT -6
socks, stocks, tether, feather, rocks
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When winter has arrived
invest in stocks
of socks
lest your warm and comfy cozy
fall upon the rocks!
Buy coats filled with feather
with gloves on a tether,
and belch from your chimneys with smoke
roast marshmallows and drink
hot cocoa, . . .
not coke!
Hot soup
hot tea
stay in
and stay cozy
warm snuggled and dozy!
Don't dare sneeze
or go out without coat
and freeze!
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cringe, alone, creak, stalwart, fire |
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Post by aims on Dec 17, 2016 10:29:09 GMT -6
cringe, alone, creak, stalwart, fire
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Stalwart this heart
though it does creak
with the creap of age
you'd think with more sage
alone
I parse
my love life so sparse
but I keep myself firmly to my hinge
lest I make you cringe
and my own self cry!
Would those tears put out the fire?
I seriously doubt
but of my job I just might be out!!
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withering, look, hook, took, hibernate
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