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their absence has been in my mind

The sound of their croaking tonight awakens me

frogs in the hidden Moon

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“Throw everything out of your mind. Read a little, sleep. The world will still be here when you wake up, and there'll still be everything left to do.”

~James Baldwin

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"You can be converted from one belief to another, from one dogma to another, but you cannot be converted to an understanding of reality. Belief is not reality."

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

- Confucius

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“The unfed mind devours itself.”

–Gore Vidal

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"I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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VOTE in Everyone Hates Poetry 2024

Click the link to vote for up to five favorite poems for the first round.

Judges will vote separately and votes will be included as the rounds progress.

I wanted to randomize the poll for fairness, but that means poem links are not in the same order as the poll. I suggest reading all the poems from the links and then voting accordingly.

This round will end next Tuesday.

Poem links by title or first line

A Good Honest Poem

Sand, Wind and Time

It is a Kind of Animal Sacrifice

Thenody for Alchemists

Montauk

I Wish Some Days You Could Open Me

Maybe There is Something

Words

The Sky's Back in Blue

Bad Social Interaction

Heartfelt

T4T

When You Have Words I'll be Waiting to Hear Them

Fragment 1

The Noseblind Fox

Just Bow

I Do My Own Haunting

Defabricated

Riverrun to Repeat

The Truth Is

Secondary Succession

Tabula Rasa

Eating Spicy Noodles at Midnight

Observations

Dalek Haiku

Rococo Route

Wintering Grounds

Pig Aproxm

Bull Moose Shedding Antlers

Death of an Erotic Photographer

The Sounds of the City

New Years is Bullshit

With Each Year That Passes

I Found God in the Campfire

Again

Wasn't There

For my Brother

Man Made Machines

Ode to Dining Hall Meals with Friends

Xquic Speaks

She Taught me Poetry

I Wash Our Comfort Objects

Six Feet Under the Bridge

Carlos

Musings from a Simpler Time

Distant Driver

We Were Friends

Morn

Longing to Hold

Lens

Fruit from the Womb

Solstice

Epiphany Day

Small and Painful Wound

Feeling

Black Between my Thumbs

One Drew my Grandma

Here is the Truth

On the, in the, from the

Blessings

Mad Science Erotica

I lose my Faith in People

XO

Stars

Skin in the Game

Love

Walking Round and Round in an Aimless Square

Buck Moon

Shifting

Can You Feel the Fall

Onan

Come Seek Us Once You Become Human

You're an Enigma

Broken Doorknob

Radioactive Purity

Seven and the Fourth

The Apparition Seated at His Desk

The High Rule

The Doors are Left Open

Wether it's Direct

When I grow up

Storage Space

Who we are

Home

When the Message Comes

What is Lighter than a body left behind

Conservation Talk

Eulogy

Amor

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“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit; there’s no use being a damn fool about it.”

           -  Mark Twain

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“The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.”

~ William S. Burroughs

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Buddy Guy

“If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.” - Buddy Guy

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“Our enemies are not the Jews, Muslim or the Christians, our enemy is our own ignorance.”

― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

― Groucho Marx.

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"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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