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Category Archives: Poetry

Poems, writing with poetic imagery

Spinning Tops

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: January 5, 2023   Categories: Poetry   Tags: Personal, Relationships
A half-dozen toy tops painted like women with flared skirts sit on a table top.

A poem from the polyamory era likening lovers to spinning toy tops.

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Christmas Eve Poem

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: December 24, 2022   Categories: Poetry, VidBits   Tags: Personal

Written at age 15 in both English and Latin.

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The Bluebird of Happiness

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: November 30, 2022   Categories: Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards   Tags: Animals, MemeMyself

How the Bluebird of Happiness makes you both happy AND blue.

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Creating, Rather than Rearranging

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: November 26, 2022   Categories: Poetry   Tags: Metaphysical, Personal

Poem, written in 1972 upon seeing a miserable-looking dog tied to a post while walking to work, about creating happiness from misery.

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Welcome to the Hotel Paranoia

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: July 4, 2022   Categories: Poetry, Video   Tags: Political
The Eagles' Hotel California Album cover, altered to say Hotel Paranoia.

A parody rewrite of the Eagles’ 1977 hit song, Hotel California, relevant to the current times.

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I Must Do More Pretending

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: October 16, 2021   Categories: Poetry   Tags: Personal

A poem, written in 1972, prompted by seeing a stuffed toy lion and bear, contrasting the make-believe play-world of a child with the more biting reality of adult experiences.

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This Poem is Good

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: August 13, 2021   Categories: Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards   Tags: Personal

Processing a friend’s passing while walking in the park.

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Cracks Where Beauty Pushes Through

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: May 30, 2021   Categories: Photography, Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards   Tags: Metaphysical, Motivational, Nature

Flowers always find a way.

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My Spirit Bear

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: February 26, 2021   Categories: Photography, Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards   Tags: Personal
A pink-tinged, washed out teddy bear slumps at the base of a tree trunk in the setting sun.

My Spirit Bear,
Forlorn and frazzled,
Worn down with cares,
Stares off into the distance,
Contemplating his existence.

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Depression’s Masquerade

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: December 21, 2020   Categories: Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards   Tags: Personal
The classical tragedy and comedy masks, somewhat stylized, with the headline: DEPRESSION'S MASQUERADE

The face
I face the day with
Has a smile
That does not fade.
It’s depression’s masquerade.

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August Evening ’73 (Supposed)

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: April 7, 2020   Categories: Audio, Poetry   Tags: Personal
Photo booth photo of Ned, taken around 1973

Poem written by Ned Buratovich on January 5, 1974 about expectations leading to tense confrontation one August evening in 1973. Audio of Ned’s reading recorded in 2004.

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Somewhere in a pawn shop waits …

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: December 24, 2019   Categories: Poetry, Visual Imagery   Tags: Personal
Glowing text styled as neon sign saying, PAWN SHOP ~ guns ~ gold ~ BUY ~ SELL ~ TRADE

Somewhere in a pawn shop waits… a pistol. Poem, with premise: obliteration as anodyne.

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Cow Encountered by a Poet

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: July 15, 2017   Categories: Poetry, Video   Tags: Animals, Nature

A spoken word performance of a puerile poem written as an adolescent, captured in a semi-spontaneous video when both a brown cow and a poet became available.

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Death of Walter Cronkite presaged in poem, Lamentalogue

imagiNed Conceptual Artistry Posted: July 17, 2009   Categories: Poetry   Tags: Personal
TIME magazine cover featuring Walter Cronkite

Lamenting the loss of innocence and the feeling of trust from the age of Walter Cronkite.

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