Poems without Explanations.

[Discount Bassy]

Seeking the wrong prize.
Pity is not empathy.
One can have meaning.

 

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Without foundation,
Nothing can be built to last.
Construct of the void.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Much is based on chance.
Randomness of resources.
Casino of life.

 

[Discount Bassy]

The past year is gone.
Many things happened, some good.
The next year is now.

 

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Like a bad penny,
Back pain returns when ignored.
Remember = forget.

 

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Compromised motives.
Actions do not obscure truths.
Privilege retained.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Petrodollar wars
Insure false supremacy,
Inequality.

 

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Lost in the ashes,
Foundations an empire
Smolder and then die.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Mouths owned by the rich
Mislead those who have small ears.
Truth's not the intent.

 

[Aric Bjorn]

For Renee Nicole Good
by Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose,
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we've been.

Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of out neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Always distractions.
Designed to keep eyes off truths.
Don't eat the candy.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Dumbest universe.
Dumbest possible time-line
It makes my brain hurt.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Non-existant past
Justifies current conflicts.
Self-made martyrdom.

 

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Always quite well armed.
No shortage of feet to shoot.
Milipede empire.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Although I don't know him
This guy wrote a poem
That reached in and tugged at my heart

With no explanation
Without hesitation
I ask you what passes for art

Composed on the zilther
Over words he did dither
But all that came out was a fart.

 

[Discount Bassy]

I lay out my clothes
Like a child ready for school.
Life is my teacher.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Deeper than oceans,
Faster than falling water,
Flows stupidity.

 

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Why attack your foes
When you can attack your friends?
All attacks on self.

 

[ImTheOnlyOne]

I once met a poet who knew how to author
A story of lusting and justice uncalled for
Where one of the persons now written within it
Narrated a bit thinkin', "That's funny, innit?"

 

[Discount Bassy]

The game has been won.
We are encouraged to play
To amuse the rich.