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[ammcgee-author]

209. Attention

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

But not enough to have expectations of me –

I hate responsibility,

I don’t trust authority.

I want seniority,

with all the entitlement of an infant;

Don’t trust the majority,

But I believe in Democracy.

I need your hands on me,

Step back, don’t touch me!

I need you to want me,

And expect absolutely nothing of me –

Pull my hair out by the roots,

Slam my head against the wall —

I want everything that you have,

I need nothing at all.

Leave me alone in isolation,

I won’t accept complications;

I can’t meet your expectations,

Please don’t break my concentration.

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

And then leave me alone;

You are everything I want,

I am nothing on my own.

Take dirty pictures of me,

And then send them on your phone

You’re the only thing I’ve got —

Won’t you please throw me a bone?

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

Step back, don’t trust me —

I want everything you have,

if you expect nothing of me.

I can’t stand rejection, I wince at acceptance;

I believe in delayed gratification,

And I want everything right now!

Take everything I have,

I need everything you are;

Won’t you please buy me a home?

And then run me over with your car.

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

Give me all your likes, hearts, high society –

I need your validation for everything you can’t see inside of me.

I love your shallowness, and your vain dismissal of me;

Won’t you come and look at me?

I need everyone to love me. To love me.

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

Can’t you see the hurt inside of me?

How much more can I bleed?

Peel the skin right off my bones.

Humiliate me, hate me,

Denigrate me;

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

I don’t want to be alone.

— A.M. McGee

[dhamasmith]

WORD FOR THE WISE

Schools around the world need to change the curriculum. Teach, instead the importance of self sufficiency and preaching humility. How we learn should never be measured, by an education system that needs to rethink their position and resist its insistence, of shaping and moulding, our future generations to value money over gratitude, a soul destroying life of servitude, has led to the slaughter and torture of our innocents. How would you like to be remembered? If you got hit by a bus, walking your dog, too engrossed in your ipod. Who would even go to your funeral, or write your eulogy and speak glowingly. About your kind nature and forgiving character. Please try to remember, kindness is a virtue, that resides within you. Encouragement is nourishment to help you realise,that the mission of the system is to desensitise.

A seemingly apathetic hypocrisy disguised as democracy. These pretentious inventions, preceded food - driven monopolies. of genetically modified chemical activities. Basic human decency, should become our currency. A bartering of ideas, shared amongst your peers, leads to unity. I try to string together words, that kind of rhyme, to tell my story and make it relatable. One last thought to add to the list. An ingrained sickness so I must speak of this.

We drown in our sadness and regret at the implied, inexplicable insistence and expectation of perfection, in response to their questions. Expressing confusion, dismay or the perceived perception of devious intentions. Imperative we choose to refuse to engage in the rage and hate that is used as an excuse to abuse and defile our women and children with impunity.

{CHORUS}

We cling to bitter beliefs and toxic behaviours.

The truth is this.

Only you will be your saviour.

The greatest of our assets.

Basically innate, yet profound.

Our ability to critically think

and learn a new sound.

When something is amiss, we need to discuss not dismiss. The queasy, uneasy constrictive breathing, personifying your reality of crippling anxiety, whilst society, misunderstands your ability to act passionately, with humility, makes a mockery of the usual response of separation and disunity. You always have the option, to respond with kindness, empathy and compassion to painful interactions. Unburden your baggage, that festers in the crevices, created by memories of traumatic realities.

When all is said and listened to. I humbly ask of you.

Be the change you wish to seek.

Showing emotion is never weak..

.

[yesimmortalspiritblog]

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[phillprovance-blog]

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[vomit-garden]

Blood for the Car Gods

[author-mathomas]

Post Ten. Poetry. Perspective is always needed. Especially for newbie writers. #authorschallenge2019 #AustralianAuthorsRock #WritersOfInstagram #PoetryThatRhymes #HugEveryone https://www.instagram.com/p/BsdEKt6np54/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wulo22nbrpux

[ronovanwrites]

Décima Challenge 44 Poets Collected

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15 Poets from last week’s challenge of STEAL and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on. Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift. NEW TO US THIS WEEK: Laura Eliza Haynes: Regret Décima Ruth Blogs Here: Capitol Offence   Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson:   The…

[yesimmortalspiritblog]

They did it @inkgladiatorspress ~ What a way to end the year 2020. I am humbly honored and grateful to the publication of Godzillion Worlds chapbook on December 3, 2020, on Amazon. . And I was pleasantly surprised with the announcement @ourearthians that my poem is one of the 9 selected for "The Stringing Word Challenge" triology. I am humbly honored to be alongside the other 8 talented and creative writers/poets in this beautiful opportunity. I humbly bow to @miriamo77 @picture_me_a_poet @brigids_fire @flawsome_words @wordsofa.nobody @shrutiscapes @bookwormpoet and @asmyheartbeatson ~ Congratulations to all of you!🥂🌹 What a way to end the year 2020 triology rolling its publication over into 2021. I look forward to its publication. Awesomely fun and creative!💃💞🥂🌹 . . . #godzillionworlds #thestringingwordchallenge #poetsoftheworld #poetsofwisdom #poetrythatrhymes #poetrythatspeaksforitself #poetrythatspeakstothesoul #poetryofheart #poetryofheart❤ #poetryofwisdom #poets #poetspotlight #poetrybooks❤️❤️ (at World Wide) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYbou5FILJ/?igshid=7iwnilidrnu3

[phillprovance-blog]

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[phillprovance-blog]

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[phillprovance-blog]

This poem (2 pics), which first appeared in the Rat's Ass Review's Winter 2018 issue (http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=2944), is something of a metrical, rhymed nonce (or original form). RAR's formatting didn't preserve my intended indented caesuras, so the only way to see it as I intended it is to read the version in my upcoming collection A Plan in Case of Morning, which will come out in Sept. 2020 from Vine Leaves Press (https://www.vineleavespress.com/). #poetryofinsta #poemsthatrhyme #poemsabouther #poetryislove #poetrythatrhymes #poemgasm #poetryisnotdeadyet #poetryaboutlove #poemsaboutlove #poemsofinsta #poemthatrhymes (at Southend Pier) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3NBAGdnjUA/?igshid=1hbha7llcs2hi

[yesimmortalspiritblog]

Dreamy Bubbles by @godzillionloveandlight ~ Utilized "Outwtitting the Devil" prompt @tealmoonrising ~ Great prompts as always Lainey👍👍😉🌹 . Dreamy Bubbles Beyond the wonders of dream worlds there is a world that is greater than all of them. It's a world of realism where true freedom triumphs. Worlds of illusion are dreamy bubbles of simulation that is in the mind. Dreams come from within thoughts. They come to help us find the way out of dreamy bubble worlds. In illusion, seasons come, seasons go. Rain pours, thunder roars, lightening brightening, rolling misty fog sometimes pea soup, sometimes not. Winds whistle, ocean roars, dust blows, here comes the snow, goose bumps quiver, body shivers ~ A seasons past, spring emerges, green leaves sprout, flowers bloom, scent of fresh green grass passes through. Breathe in all the lovely freshness anew in this new season and spew out all the troubles of old. Take a sip or two of wine, relax, do not wind. Embrace things to come in dreamy bubbles no matter what happens. Remember through forgiveness we outwit the devil. Peace emerges through forgiveness. Let her glisten golden stream wash away all your devastating dreams. For something powerfully majestic always emerges out of something nightmarishly aggressive. Even through the bark and growls of others, remember love and light tenderly outshines its dark of night. Through all the toils and snares it's okay to care and be humbly kind to merciless minds. People beware, through forgiveness this is how we outwit the devil and flee dreamy bubbles that offer seasons of bittersweet storms that come and go. Thus escaping its merciless grip outwitting the devil and this is what truly matters. Peace. . . . . . . . #dreamybubbles #snowmoonrising20 #outwittingthedevil #prompts #poetryprompts #poeticallysmitten #poeticmaestro #poeticallyspoken #poeticallywritten #outofthisworldpoets #poetessofspirit #poetsoutofthisworld #poetswhoknowit #poetryofsoul #poetryforchange #poetryinme #poetrythatspeakstothesoul #poetrythatrhymes #poetrythatspeaks #poetrythatspeakstome #borntowrite #borntopoeticallywrite #allpoetsrock #borntowritepoetry #borntoexperience #tealmoonpoetry #tealmoonlive https://www.instagram.com/p/B76DGneJoE9/?igshid=1txi5zymt6cjf

[ronovanwrites]

Décima Challenge 43 Poets Collected

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10 Poets from last week’s challenge of SPRING and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on. Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.   Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson:  A Spring to Forget http://www.engleson.ca On the Passing of My Friend, Charan Gill I think…

[ronovanwrites]

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14 Poets from last week’s challenge of CARE and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on. Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.   EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti:  The Couple http://www.engleson.ca Deep Winter Despair This may be where I take my…

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13 Poets from last week’s challenge of SHIMMER and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on. Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift. NEW POETS THIS WEEK SHIFTNSHAKE | D. AVERY:  Sojurn     EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti:  A Sad Changing Of the…

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11 Poets from last week’s challenge of FLOAT and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on. Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift. Here are 3 I thought were standouts for various reasons, those being reasons my strange my caught mid-flight. But I Smile Anyway… |…