Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
Bobby O said:

I wrote a piece that speaks to sudden loss and in my case it was my mom. I’m gonna send it now in this reply box cuz it wouldn’t let me inbox you. Hope it’s ok to do so.

SHAKEN BALANCE
Suddenly My Path Got Jumbled
My Certain Plan Suddenly Was Unclear
Instinct , Find Strength Internal, Instead , I Just Found Fear
Charting a Courageous Course
a Jumbled Plan That Quickly Crumbled
Deep Sadness Lives Here , Now I Just Pray ,This Deep Sadness Disappears

This Jumbled Path Defines a New
Never , Starkly Alone, I Face This Bridge I’m Forced to Cross
I Take no Solace Knowing Billions
Have and Will Be Familiar with This Loss

See, My Mom is Gone
I Was Not Prepared
I Never Imagined the Sharpness of This Grief.
Denial, Anger, Bargain,
Depressed
Imprisoned in the Maze of Disbelief

Raised on Her Wisdom, I Must Trust Her Love. I Must Trust These Tears Will Turn to Smiles,
and That My Memories Turn to Blessings, After a Little While
Her Strength is in Me, Her Mighty Spirit My Inheritance
Her Guidance Leads My Jumbled Journey
My Acceptance Her Deliverance
Bobby O



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May 11th, 2023 09:56

The boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
L. B. Mek said:

great ode n dedication
to a stalwart giant
of modernity\'s musical
legacy!
thank you, dear Poet
\'now rightfully claim status of I’m a rocker/
local hero and I’m goin’ down
meeting across the river
if I should fall behind
on the downbound train as living proof
within light of day magic jungleland
policed by highway patrolman i.e. johnny 99
alias johnny bye bye – held up without a gun\'
(have his biography, saving it for my summer reads
if I remember I\'ll try and read your poem after, when
more of your references will be accessible to me)

April 21st, 2023 05:40

Existentialism emancipation proclamation manumission...
jarcher54 said:

Hell of a proclamation! I absolutely adore the line \"clubbing with Mother Mary.\" Witty and yet profound.

April 7th, 2023 19:26

April 5, 2023 – refracted reflections:
Eugene S. said:

Well that was a nice way to say it! Enjoyed the read!!

April 5th, 2023 16:30

Back to you Billy, for ways I whiled away herding ennui
David Wakeling said:

I read this twice but didn\'t understand a single word.The mystery to me is why you would work so hard to be meaningless

March 11th, 2023 15:34

The howling winds of March
L. B. Mek said:

Brilliant!

March 10th, 2023 04:23

Atomic brinkmanship double edged sword of Damocles
2781 said:

Lots of losers, who are the winners

March 1st, 2023 15:14

Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023
orchidee said:

Oops, seems TMI (Too Much Info) at the start, and I don\'t mean the length of the poem! lol.

February 12th, 2023 13:50

Happy 211th birthday Charles Dickens
jarcher54 said:

This was fun and creative... and a fitting tribute to an author who enriched our lives with memorable stories and characters and places like no one else. I recently read Dombey and Son and laughed and cried quite out loud. Thanks!!

February 7th, 2023 22:57

Rampant and endemic police brutality...
L. B. Mek said:

\'Rather than raucously riot,
I craft emotions courtesy poetry
mine feeble attempt to agitate and protest
sublimated thru scathing poetic indictment\'
no dear cherished Poet, there is nothing lame
in these words, you gift the world
this is enough
we need not all bleed, to affect change
wisdom and insight disseminated
within our society
for generations to heed
can move more boundaries
and open more closed minds
than any act
of violence inducing, prostration or marching...
those days
of Thoreau heralded
and MLK, adopted
\'civil disobedience\'
are quickly becoming as forgotten
as the rest of history\'s, legacy
for heuristic methods of evolving..
modernity, instead
increases societal bottlenecks
of repressed tensions
then lets them spark
(in to shop window broken glass
and the looting
of the very neighbourhoods
being marginalised and neglected)
and then, all that self-righteous
unthinking fury, as energy
simply dissipates, with futility
once in a while, with a timely
news break or two
with imagery and words, angled just right to insure
such an impotent reactionary
blind zeal, to take hold
of embattled minds..
then
its, pseudo social movements
with tax exempt charity status
and clickbait branding hats n shirts
to fraudulently steal millions
from wannabe, money pledging
reactionary
@ # trending fashionably topical
feigning empathisers..
to shovel out of sight
centuries of complex
and regurgitated, subjugation tactics
far away, beneath
their pristine Persian carpets
out of sight
till those volcanoes of strife, once more
threaten to their way of life
and
its back to the old, tried n tested
methods of appeasement
distractions and evermore feigned
insidiously, subtle
subjugating, systemic tactics
(no dear Poet
were we to live in a time
when words could be heard
your sincere words, would have achieved
far more
than any modern day fruitless
march of anarchy and riot...)
you should be Proud
and humbly, I thank you!
for daring, for caring, for sharing
permit me to name you brethren
in this endless fight
for humanity, to not lose
all its ambitions, of humane
oneness
and genuinely empathetic togetherness...


January 27th, 2023 05:25

Ephemeral social media rendezvous
L. B. Mek said:

\'fledgling cyber acquaintanceships
dead on the vine, yours truly sighed\'
I read and related, sighing in mutual
lamentation
there are far more poisonous
humans, than
insects or snakes, on our planet
far, far more!

January 20th, 2023 06:08

Inextricably rooted with hair fixation
L. B. Mek said:

so funny!
an early happy birthday for the 23rd
in case I forget or have miscalculated
they say 60 is the new 40
hope you have a great day and a peaceful
yet rewarding year ahead, dear cherished Poet
here\'s to you and yours
Happy New Year as well
🍾🥂👏

January 9th, 2023 05:31

CIPROFLOXACIN HCL 500 MG remedied urinary tract infection
BlessedbyGod said:

Been there, countless of times,that medication leaves a bad taste in your mouth

December 25th, 2022 17:25

I relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
L. B. Mek said:

\'after enjoying repast,
(fit for a tarnished king),
yours truly able, eager, and ready
to soak my ego freezing carcass in a hot tub.

Hmm... on second thought

lemme apprise others
on the verge against starving themselves,\'

\'to deliberate paranoid Machiavellian flub
courtesy the missus attempted to poison me
(courtesy arse cynic
no – not really)

actually
aborted cuz nanobots
loosed upon body
gripped with rigor mortis,

a minor inconvenient truth
with earthling in balance,

cuz odorless and tasteless deadly toxins
rendered me convalescing
from bout with death, an oxymoronic

former slenderman gourmand.\'

\'truth be told, I
only eat one meal per day
all day
from son up to son down, me
a force
tubby reckoned with, who
if he gives way to vice
event chew wooly (mammouth)
experiences remorse.

Hum glad to share
mine reasonably rhyming hook

twenty six letters linkedin amidst
various combinations, formations, permutations,...
allows, enables, and provides a look

into the mindscape of Matthew Scott Harris

doth show himself with steely dangling
nonsense without pride nor prejudice,
nor sense and sensibility he forsook.\'

November 25th, 2022 04:06

Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
L. B. Mek said:

I\'m sorry for your loss
dear Poet
may she rest in peace

November 14th, 2022 04:28