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Tag Archives: disillusion
Amerigeddon
There is no need to stop the clocks, nor try to dim the constant noise; let those who listen, soldier on, despite the sonic din’s abuse. There are no hidden codes to find, nor secret doors along the wall; let … Continue reading
The End is Near: a chant royal
The end is near, and what is worse, it looks so very much the same as the beginning. How perverse! We’d best start handing out the blame before the opportunity is past, and we are forced to flee elected our … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged apocalypse, chant royal, daily poems, disillusion, dreams, ending, grande ballade, poetic forms
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Better Your Dream Dies Young
Better that your dream dies young, its promise as yet unfulfilled, a youthful willow Juliet to your enamored Romeo, than that it live until old age, when riddled through with cancer scars, its cracked voice jaded with regret, it makes … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged disillusion, dreams, futility, Romeo and Juliet, sadness, youth
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This Place
Everything about this place just tends to bring me down; I look into the mirror and see one more hopeless clown. The people on the street have a sad tendency to frown and no one wants to be the only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged communication, depression, disillusion, fear, isolation, small towns
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Welcome to the Undertown
Undertown (n): Like the bottom part of the wave that actually moves all the water (and can do all the damage), that beneath the surface pulls you in and gives you an appreciation of the ocean, the undertown is that … Continue reading
Why Things Burn
A moment of brilliance, shot through the heart and left for dead on the side of the road; An instant of insight, unclouded by the circumstance of reason as the teardrop explodes; A spark from a fire too long extinguished, … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged awareness, confusion, disillusion, loss, Why?Things Burn
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