Five Words Thread

[aims]

withering, look, hook, took, hibernate
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Take a withering look from the high and mighty
the condescending hypocrites of this world
as a compliment,
as a sign of God's approval,
because they were just the kind of people
he took the most time to criticize
when he was here in the flesh in the person of Jesus!!!
Don't let those types get a hook in your self- assessment!!!
Let your attention hibernate when they start blathering on
with their words meant to shift attention from their own
less than laudable
in favor of putting you on the defense
so you won't spend the time to realize it.
Seriously,
people who endeavor to make others feel bad about themselves
want someone else to pay for what they feel or don't feel about themselves!!
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collect, smile, tingling, zest, applaud

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This poem is from a Christian perspective but if you don't believe in Jesus or God, the basic message about the self-righteous is still spot on and, also those were the people Jesus, the man, most Criticized!!

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collect, smile, tingling, zest, applaud
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At the Earth's magnificent beauty applaud
or stand in silence. . . awed.
Smile and try, just try to contain the zest for life
as it wells up within you at the sight
how can you describe it, blinding light!
A featherlight breeze rustles the leaves
before tingling your skin with it's tickling embrace
for one moment you are part of everything
not just the human race!
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solid, stolen, frozen, senectitude, enlighten

[phantasm]

Enlighten me now that the New Year is upon us:
How shall we move forward with the new condition of things?
One thing is rock-solid sure:
Life is bubbly and fluid, shape-shifting like slime
It always had been, it's simply easier to see nowadays
There's no freezing your life in a perfect Golden Age that never existed--
That is unrealistic senectitude, pining for the past.

Look with shining eyes towards the future, scry your path,
Steal a glance in the mirror.
Ask yourself this: what are you willing to live with?



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Pulp, yellow, haughty, sideways, eBay

[aims]

Pulp, yellow, haughty, sideways, eBay
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Yellow yellow yellow
no I want orange and fresh with pulp
guess I'll have to squeeze my own
she let go a haughty sigh
then cocoked her head sideways
to define the flicker of jubilant recognition
of something she scrolled past on Ebay!
ah, she yawned it's only 9 am and already what a day!!
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socrates, idiomatic, clete, teet , replete

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socrates, idiomatic, cleat, teet , replete
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For the students of socrates
questioning is idiomatic.
So here's a question:
What realationship lines can be drawn between
these three words:
cleat, teet, and replete?
here is one answer:
"He stomped on the poor cows teet
with a sport shoe cleat
until the dogs appetite for milk was replete!"
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hog, many, spoof, cruel, laughable

[phantasm]

hog, many, spoof, cruel, laughable

Laughable are many things in this life,
Especially when it comes to trying to control others.
Some people will do anything to control that which is external
Without having a grasp of how to control the things within themselves.
What brings out derision and cruelty for those deemed outside of the "tribe?"
What compels these people to act and call someone a hog, something on the outside, or something on the inside?

I wish I could show these people what they look like to outsiders
Could a spoof on reality solidify ordinary reality?


gate, movie camera, axe, script, furniture

[aims]

gate, movie camera, axe, script, furniture
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Axe the camera and throw out the script
stop living your life like it was a movie
and treating people like furniture. . .
like props!!
Throw wide the gate of your heart
and let them in
and while they are there
be a good host
and treat them like honored guests
give them rest if they are weary
feed their hunger
quench their thirst
wipe their tears
kiss their scrapes
give everything you have ever appreciated receiving
or would like to have received
and you will have poured the balm of love not just upon them
but upon yourself as well.
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steal, recompence, counter, igneous, bold

[aims]

steal, recompense, counter, igneous, bold
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Steal my heart,
you didn't mean to I'm sure
but now in your possession
I don't seem to be able to retrieve it.
I wish I could somehow counter
and steal yours
but it's not that simple,
is it?
though my love and hunger for you may be bold,
incendiary,
burning my heart alive
is it igneous enough to yours to melt it??
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well, talisman, asseverate, esperance, plonk

[aims]

well, talisman, asseverate, esperance, plonk
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My conundrum:
1. Despair will fill a vacuum left by the absence of esperance
2. I cannot drown said despair in plonk because I don't touch the stuff!!!
3. If I got down on bended knee to asseverate my feelings to her I may alienate her and get fired!
4. No talisman is powerful enough to break my cursed at love status.
5. I shall go to the well of eternal life and drink, to keep my heart alive, but there will be little joy in it except when I see her.
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froideur, simpatico, fulminate, katzenjammer, rectitude

[aims]

froideur, simpatico, fulminate, katzenjammer, rectitude
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There exists in this world
many kinds of ugliness
from the froideur to the juvenile twitter warrior
but they have one common bond. . .
they are simpatico in this:
they care only about what they want
and they don't care who is hurt in attaining it.
and while the saintly, the larger than life, the heroic
may hold the highest rectitude in their fulminations of
the katzenjammers caused by these selfish beasts and their agenda's,
the mob mentality and momentum unleashed by the angry powerless,
who, latch on to twist the knife vicariously, will turn on them like a pack of wolves.
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pussycat, tiger, contemplate, solidarity, complicate

[anirbas]

pussycat, tiger, contemplate, solidarity, complicate

~*~

Most of my family and friends
(including those on social media)
wish I would contemplate solidarity

purr like a contented pussycat
when the name of the usurper
of all that is dear and free
is mentioned in my presence
aka not my president

They whine I complicate things
roaring loud as a tiger
with a thorn in its paw
if anyone mentions
the usurper at all

I am so not sorry
I refuse to goose step
in public to keep the peace
you should know me better than that
I'm a feline whether purring or roaring
not a foul fowl shitting on its own feet

~*~

sidewalks*cosmos*addendum*sigil*device

[aims]

sidewalks*cosmos*addendum*sigil*device
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Our presence here is cemented in the sidewalks of the past
a sigil being traced into the present
and an addendum to the cosmos of the future
unless the doomsday device sitting in the whitehouse
manages to get us wiped from the pages of existence!
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corpus, mindful, sanguine, solvent, contextual

[phantasm]

corpus, mindful, sanguine, solvent, contextual


The corpus of all our work is piled high,
libraries and bookstores choked to the hilt with our books--
It's a thing of beauty. Somewhere in the context of that pile is the master key
to mindfulness and prosperity in our world.

How do people live their lives sanguine, without pursuing wisdom?
I confess I don't understand it.

All people want is solvency
when what we need is worldly fluency
and the wherewithal to honestly practice what we learn.

abrupt*abundant*empty*killjoy*rank amateur

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abrupt*abundant*empty*killjoy*rank amateur
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What is abundant at present is the worlds hatred of our new president
and indeed our own as well, any of us with a lick of sense anyway!!!
we all knew his promises to make america great were empty at best
and horrific, . . .more likely!!!
An abrupt Killjoy to the american spirit!!!
He is such a rank amateur
that the least cognizant of the dementia patients I care for
would make a better president than him!!!
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smarmy, sleazy, seedy, beedy, disgusting

[aims]

smarmy, sleazy, seedy, beedy, disgusting
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What bugs me about Trump?
a lot of things!!!
Here's one: in his speech,
he's not even smarmy
exceesively suave. . . not even!
just so insincerely patronizing when he says shit like:
"wonderful people, Tremendous people. . ."
there is not even one lick of sicerity in his voice
quite the contrary his tone and the way he says it screams I don't mean this at all and I think you are all stupid enough to believe that I do!!!
As for what else I don't like about him take your pick:
he is a seedy, sleazy, beedy-eyed, disgusting Pussy-Grabber,
besides being Putin's and Bannon's Bitch.
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crater, rocks, river, run, plead

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crater, rocks, river, run, plead
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May as well plead with the river:
"Don't Run!"
over the rocks
and through the craters
it's long ago been done
and you you are not the one. . .
to wave your staff
and part the creek
and lead the helpless
almost hopeless
to safety?
No the tides are rising
run rampant with rain
and when it washes away
the known
what unknown horrors shall supplant it?
OH! Friend
hunker down and pray
to survive the day!!
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stiff, relent, spent, bent, askew

[aims]

stiff, relent, spent, bent, askew
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Stiff will break instead of be bent
and when it breaks it will be spent
all it's stalwart plans gone askew
it will in effect relent.
Be fluid
be flexible
be open
believe ideas vs insisting you know facts
we only move forward
when we don't try to cast the world in hard cement
when all has been hardened and fixed in place
this world will be dead
inanimate.
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irredeemable, collude, penalty, frenetic, pool

[aims]

irredeemable, collude, penalty, frenetic, pool
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Thrashing about in a frenectic pool of sweat
the dreamer dreamed
and in the dream was running scared
from the penalty . . .
towards which they did collude,
in a shared irredeemable spirit
as with every clandestined endeavor
part of the thrill
is in the danger
of the possible outcomes
and therein is flawed
like a flame draws a moth
they sooner or later fly in and burn
and then. . .
is it worth the cost?
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salt, light, penetrate, wellspring, immerse

[phantasm]

salt, light, penetrate, wellspring, immerse

There is immensity of spirit in us all
It pulses and throbs in the heart
Dip down and immerse yourself
Drink deeply, let it penetrate your consciousness
The wellspring will not run dry

The salt mine that is this world
Leaves our throats parched for a kinder reality
We must not let ourselves be held in thrall
To the worst examples of humanity around us

Good intentions combined with good actions
Will light the way to the Gloried Wayafter--
Not the afterlife, but a better world in this life.


peace*fury*wanderer*wilderness*transcendence

[aims]

peace*fury*wanderer*wilderness*transcendence
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Peace comes,
when you stop running
running from the larger than life boogeyman.
As long as you are running,
you are a scared rabbit in the wilderness.
but when you summon your courage
and channel it as fury
to turn and stare down your pursuer
you become a wanderer a wayfarer
in the land of Transcendence,
where the scary shadows have been shined away
by the light of truth.
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solitude, food, intrude, exposed, insight

[aims]

solitude, food, intrude, exposed, insight
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Solitude
it can be food for the soul
especially if you are an introvert like myself
while I am imersed in others my insight sits on a shelf
truths gleaned from those moments in the company of others
are exposed in the darkroom of my mind
later
in an aloneness where no one intrudes!
that is where my pondering concludes.
where the rough clay of life is molded before my minds eye
into opinions
the wings upon which I fly.
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soul, fear, clear, love, near

[phantasm]

soul, fear, clear, love, near

What does your soul long for, what does it wish to draw near to?
May your love be allied with clarity, may your respect be allied with openness,
May your fears slip away like a cloak of nothingness.



glasses, crystal, light, transparency, light-year

[aims]

glasses, crystal, light, transparency, light-year
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Transparency,
we are lightyears away from that
and we didn't need a crystal ball
to see this coming!
we let this happen in broad daylight
like people who thought they read what was on the page
without their reading glasses
and the people who voted for him need kicks in their asses!!
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searing, cry, sly, deny, clock

[aims]

searing, cry, sly, deny, clock
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Sly smile
searing desire into my flesh
I could cry
or deny
that my solitary status hurts,
aches in fact,
as I look at the clock ticking
and I imagine my life like an hour glass
with the sand draining away.
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continuum, over, overt, covert, cover

[phantasm]

continuum, over, overt, covert, cover

We all live on a continuum, a sliding scale, a bell curve
Whether overtly or covertly, and that's the difference:
some of us know what we are,
some of us choose to ignore reality and attempt to go under cover

The violinists are warming up, ready to play the overture
We are on the precipice, nervously looking over the edge
Is society going to jump, or walk away from the ledge?

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National Geographic, National Enquirer, lover, fighter, watcher

 

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National Geographic, National Enquirer, lover, fighter, watcher
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I'm a lover
not a fighter
sometimes a watcher
of national Geographic. . .
now and again
a reader. . .
sometimes. . .
of national Enquirer. . .Aw Hell no!!
unless you count rolling my eyes at the headlines in the grocery line!!!!
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euclid, socrates, anesthesia, clock, sneer

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euclid, socrates, anesthesia, clock, sneer
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Euclid would have to come up with a new shape for me
he would certainly never mistake me for a square
and socrates he would probably have some new questions
after we talked!
Meanwhile the right wing sneer
the left wing I hold dear
and the clock ticks
too much time left for me
when the clock has already run out on other things,
it's times like these when anesthesia
might please ya!
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metaphor, folk-lore, core, shore, door

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metaphor, folk-lore, core, shore, door
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My heart is a bottle washed up on the shore
That's the metaphor
aching to the core
knocking at the door
for someone to let me out
for someone to come in
but I can never win.
Women like you
are my folk-lore
legendary lovers I've ever and never had!
ones I want so very bad
a hero that never rescues my heart,
and I . . . the needle in the haystack that you wouldn't want to find.
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vaunting, smaragdine, cimmerian, luciferous, stravage

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vaunting, smaragdine, cimmerian, luciferous, stravage
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While the vaunting extol their own praises
and the would-bees turn bright smaragdine
the rest of us stravage
in the cimmerian political terrain
praying for someone luciferous
to elucidate the way out
of the downward spiral.
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fusillade, hydra, lotus-eater, scapegrace, code-switching

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fusillade, hydra, lotus-eater, scapegrace, code-switching
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Hi,
scapegrace here
adept at code-switching. . .
the hydra in all this!
and then, underneath it all
there is a lotus-eater
dreaming of a far more thrilling life behind closed doors,
where a fusillade of satisfaction is ever-present!
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throttlebottom, comportment, ort, esoterica, canard