Long Disorienting Poems

I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...

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Fr. Time is with us today, again, 
or still bilateral, 
I guess I should before
and after say.

No, you just did
how I will play.  
You would be redundant, 
to say it again, 
like I just...

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The experience of leaving the ground was a sensation that she could never have imagined.  Her stomach felt strange and at first she felt light headed, but that subsided in a short while. ...

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I know    
I tell you this instant
I am under surveillance  
my life is being recorded indefinite
every movement
private or ordinary
including this moment
every event
big or insignificant
without my consent
there is no instant
when i am...

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Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a...

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FOX NEWS article rhymed 

When Donald Trump lost the presidency, Fox News lost too
“We’re bleeding eyeballs,” a Fox producer remarked “And we’re scared of blue”
But unlike Trump, Fox was never in denial about its loss...

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This room is odd…
Do I remember it? 
This house is big, but surely…

I have been in this room before
The paintings are odd in subject matter,
Execution: they show things that can’t be. 
Or should not be…

They...

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Rock paper scissors, 
Wizards of utopian flavored wizardry, exquisitely triumphs in every gamble beyond these doors, 
Flawless tangled reversed reflections, remain forever forbidden to thoughtless mentors, 
A cursed emotional seesaw bleeds and wrestles each end...

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Make hay while the sun shines.

I grew up as a closeted polypathic nature-mystic
on a marginal, at best, family farm
in Michigan.

This farm was my embryonic home,
an extension of my vastly loved and nurturing Mother,
more than my...

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I'm suddenly choking 
             On the disorienting fumes 
              ...

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cold, lifeless, stone;

on the battlefield;
feeling alone in the world;

boom;
crash;
explosions and shells everywhere;

confusion, panic, fear;
scrambling to get out;
scrambling to get to safety;
running...always running;
flee to safety, find safety at last;
safety is here...or so he thinks;

more shelling causes...

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Don’t ever wanna wake up from my
Tangled tender headed, over played day dreams.

Oh my, why did we have to fight?
While all the little ignorant boys n girls,
Wanna enjoy each others loving sea of grief?

I know...

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A peeping eye, like pendulum, swinging through the keyhole.
Just to pass the time.
It's a curious thing.
Flicks transfixed betwixed the clicks of the ticks of the clock as it shifts.
What is it seeking?
Is it trying to...

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Lost... such an unkind word.

Being lost...
   when we're young is frightening
   when we're mature is disorienting
   when we're old is more frightening.
We pray and ask to be found.

Being found...

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Immersed in the madness flood of crowd,
a verdant valley I find carved out
in the lonesome landscape within me, 
displaced from the psychosis stratum 
of disorienting dissonance,  
attached to the insecure mind. 

Away from the...

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Excerpt from the Book of Common Prayer,
                            ...

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I know she is lost 
but those lost 
can be brought home 

I want to print 
one hundred 
missing flyers

but how she’d hate 
to be found
believes she knows 
this twisting trail 

Like her mother’s 
weary...

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The turning wheel of time stirs up the dust of disarray,
that settles in the crumbling cauldron of disordered life.
In the maiming moments of disdained dejection,
truth tumbles in the mélange of disorienting chaos. 

Under the scorching...

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I don't want to hurt others with this thought
But my work can hurt others besides myself

I'm spinning, I don't know what to do
Like the ocean of other people's passion
I have a wooden boat wreck
My brain...

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Upside Down Town

Not a ripple disturbs the
Surface of Sunset Lake.
In the bright sun
I squint across the pond,
And there I see my town
In the water mirror,
Upside down!
Houses standing on their roofs,
Their colors bleeding greens
And grays and...

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Solitary on my raft
Drifting peacefully away from the anguish towards sanctuary

The land becomes distant and harder to see.
Hurt subsides gradually and security softens my body 
as the expanse of the ocean beckons me towards freedom

Languidly...

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The girl in the mirror says to me
"Don't fall in love, it only ends in tragedy."
I accept her advice and I go on my way -
Expecting a simple, ordinary day.

But then, it happens, and her...

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We were sleeping
When the dirty water
Came rushing down,
Drowning our arrogance
And releasing our fears
Into the atmosphere.

We were stunned.
Ravaged by consequence
Melting around our feet.
Disorienting panic
Was devoted to the air,
Igniting exhausting anarchy.

Pandemonium ruled
This day
While we were rendered speechless,
Ruined...

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Grossly entangled in the wretched vines, all the way ignoring the glaring signs.

Abandon all hope ye who enter, or risk becoming your own tormentor

This feeling, this train, so unrelenting. Back and forth, disorienting. 

What a...

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God, what is infinite mercy?
God, what is Love? 
God, forgiveness for what?
Fear not for God is with thee…
God, if you are with me I can’t see you.
I feel safe when I can see who is...

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