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Self-centered all-out, blinded to all fall-out

We are on a mission
self-centered, all-out
in blazing volition
blinded to fall-out

That’s how the human neighborhood
by self-will been sent crashing
Who looks out for the common good
amidst all egos clashing?

Solidarity ignored
or even outright rejected
can it ever be restored
when we’re scattered disconnected?

Leaving each other in the dust shamelessly
while we’re trying to hog it all, blamelessly!

Are we on a mission
self-centered, all-out
in blazing volition
blinded to fall-out?

That’s how the human neighborhood
by self-will been sent crashing
Who looks out for the common good
amidst all egos clashing?

Solidarity ignored
or even outright rejected
Will it ever be restored
when we’re scattered disconnected

Left each other in the dust shamelessly
while we try hogging it all blamelessly!

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Smooth sailing as we’re throwing up over the railing?

“Just ride it out”, says my cheery wife,
“watch a video, write a verse
enjoy your late life without the strife!”
Until carted off in the hearse

But spared suffering, struggle & strife
how can humans live well in life?
If trivial coasting til last breath
we’re not alive before our death?

And how to pretend Life is smooth sailing
while throwing up bent over the railing?

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railing = here: a ship’s (hand) rail

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Thrives between boulders, behold her!

A tree will grow
almost anywhere
perfectly slow.
Of what, whom aware?

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We cannot you or me
thrive between boulders.
Lacking unlike the tree
patience, behold hers!

By Nature’s fashion bedight
chilled or damp shade endures
as well in blinding sunlight
stoically inures.

Imperceptibly stretches
the tree shall persevere.
On faintest skyline etches
foliage crystal clear.

While trees shiver in still silence
humans rage in chain saw violence.

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Are Human Species character flaws beyond redress?

Do our character flaws
whatever the cause
detract like tearing jaws
or mere scratching paws?

Flaws shall keep us estranged
make us seem deranged
and while feeling shortchanged
still persist unchanged

Human Nature unruly
which we ought but abhor
it keeps us ensnared cruelly
Just doesn’t work to ignore

Keeps persisting immutably
while doing so inscrutably

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Shun words when served as buffet!

In sweet voices lilted
while vocabulary wilts
communing gets jilted
very language itself tilts

Why is it presumed painful
in case word-flow slows to standstill
to ‘conversation’ baneful
when cliches pile on as ‘word fill’?

Mutter not in soliloquy!
Select words which dance ballet
most willingly and willowy!
Shun words when served as buffet:

Insist instead to see the full menu
or you shall be cast as the ingenue

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To plod on in soulless workplace bog

A person’s unique essence
in human interaction
business views as excrescence
treated as infraction

But scripting won’t make us sincere
(sincerity needs no script)
puts up but a flimsy veneer
in obsequious prescript

Leaving our hapless corporate cog
to plod on in soulless workplace bog

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Suffering no mere antics crossing our own Atlantics

Piercing, plaintive
shrieks of lone seagulls
faint, complaintive
such eerie earfuls

Beneath graphite clouds
on fierce waves metal grey
we’re tightening shrouds
while drenched in lashing spray

Rolling, pitching pinned
on old ship rusty
drifting sideways, downwind
in gale bursts gusty

With hollow hope, we wail
hearts pounding, bones chill
frantically we bail
while bilges still fill

Thus we’re crossing our own Atlantic
getting worn out in pumping frantic