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Shallow Strings spreaded
out in every spiral direction
in this hungrsystem
Where do I go?
To the strings that were already filled?
Where do I start?
To the strings that were already given?
Where do I live?
To the thoughts that say "i do not know."
Do I replace mu colorful battery
with a gray battery?
The fat spider likes them gray
for sure.
Do I replace my human eyes
with the spider eyes?
The eyes that are filled with illusions, paper, and profits.
Or do I keep my human heart,
still picking up the flies
that the strings "accidentally" drag in?
I do not know,
not in this spiral web
of struggles.
Robert Moe Sep 1
I have this urge to create,
To write,
To pen,
To elaborate
Upon my dreams
And set them free
To spell them out
For all to see
In their extremes
They do protest
That I have not
Finished
The rest.
Creativity finds its way out of our hearts and minds.  The words some days come easy and fast.  Some days they won't come out at all.  This was a day when the poems wrote themselves.
Haiku  ?
What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY
Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle!
Restricted,
confined
not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us.
What  I want is
not  poetry .
ITS A
SOAPBOX ,
not respected
Obeyed !

(Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. )

It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight.
Like rain-slick ****: shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage.
No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus !

Yor lame  brevity without weight is really  just laziness and incompetence .  What should  have  been a  paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet  sandwich.”
Most real writers can and  do enjoy words and or at least a complete  thought with actual  depth..

Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ******* zen garden ?
Are you being  forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture  or can you not  tell  poetry from sudoku?
Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn ****,
crybaby
daddy issues
art  act,
much ?
It makes  no sense to keep  perpetuating this nonsense in any other  language but Japanese, and  even then its pretty bad .  Their language counts on mora, not syllables. What we’re doing in English is cosplay haiku, vomiting it into fortune-cookie cosplay: "pond, frog, splash, deep meaning"   as if chopping up a Hallmark card makes it wise. Your word-count anorexia  shouldn't be allowed to be  mistaken for artistry.
Haiku  ?
What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY
Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle!
Restricted,
confined
not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us.
What  I want is
not  poetry .
ITS A
SOAPBOX ,
not respected
Obeyed !

(Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. )

It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight.
Like rain-slick ****: shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage.
No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus !

Yor lame  brevity without weight is really  just laziness and incompetence .  What should  have  been a  paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet  sandwich.”
Most real writers can and  do enjoy words and or at least a complete  thought with actual  depth..

Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ******* zen garden ?
Are you being  forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture  or can you not  tell  poetry from sudoku?
Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn ****,
crybaby
daddy issues
art  act,
much ?
"honesty, even when it’s ugly, is more poetic than polished syllable gymnastics."...
neth jones Sep 11
for a life of creativity
a clean voice and lung
calm weathered brain
i ought put effort
diary prayer from 23/10/23. minor tweak made (‘for’ added to beginning and 'i oight put effort' to the end) . taken from shorts iii no. 11
With the polar fire on;
I can catch me onto the muse of bliss.
And threads of words get slips;
with no intention of showing my ****;
just to enjoy the moments’ chills.

When it spirals downwards the stairways;
Mother kinds me with lulls.
Is it necessary that I need to do this fuss?
Ain’t I became the normies lulz?!

I just lit my wills, my mind thinks;
Juices flowing on the paper has no more stirs.
But I’ve seen this to care less, cuz I know it eventually hits.
This kind of depicts my Bipolar Type 2 Disorder and my mother on the downstairs is the only one who cares me(maybe I'm wrong or this is my notion at the moment) since my father and grandpa moved on.
The artistic mind, a fragile fickle beast
one is never sure of its morning temper,
sometimes savage, full of ire and broken glass
spitting **** and vinegar at all who pass
in a world which cannot understand,
the sheer fustration of creation,
at others more content to let things sit a while,
to smile and wait for the muse to rise
it is forever fearful, of losing any inspiration it has gained
worrying it may be forever chained
never allowed to roam,
hoping that it might return
not to spurn the feelings we lay bare
but to give us hope
and then to help us cope
with whatever wild and brooding notion we have hiding there
Nat Lipstadt Aug 30
those who wash in and wash out with tides of
their lives, peaking into ours
for a poem, a cider & doughnut,
a quick hit of a script,
like a rush of fresh ****,
that comes all the ways from states that end in A,
(ex: newyorkcitaaa baaaaaba)
but  they, don't stick around,
they, in possess and possess
other multi~typical addictions,
than just word flow,
tho artistic in temperament,
but lacking
the concomitant commitment of pleasuring others,
above and themselves.
with the musicality of their owned
alphabetical notes, rhyme, chime,
whipping, driving, yes, even chiming,
to their internal soul's baton,
a familiar friendly conductor,
who bids them greetings,
with a piecemeal peace,
a quick bite, lightly chewed,
sometimes not even swallowed,
with a greeting
of Peace,  
welcoming them and wishing them well
on their no staying way
to the next diversional
entertainment


postscript
~~~
creativity,
tho sometimes fast, even easy,
is never
cheap,
always come at a cost
She was taught to accept the doctrines
without questioning or critical thinking.
They robbed her of the willpower to evaluate,
think straight and voice out her opinions and thoughts.
Crooked, rugged, barbaric, and archaic were all the patterns.
Do not say, do not talk, do not think, do not wear, do not try,
do not handle, do not go.
Do not and don't were all the rules and tools deployed.
They muted her will and desires.
They used words to manipulate her reasoning, instilling fear,
self-doubt, insecurity, lack of confidence and willpower in her.
She never questions the norms, doctrines and dogmas,
the dos and don'ts.
She accepted all blindly, never questioning the vague
values and unwholesome expectations of her guardians.
Worst still, she internalised them and made them her standards and reality.

Now, she has evolved. She knows better than
to accept what she was raised to believe.
She is learning to ask questions and evaluate
ideas and beliefs.

She is becoming a better version of herself,
she has evolved.
MY POETRY, MY MUSE
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