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~ A Subversive Opus by Cara

I love the broken

I love the fall from grace

I love the out of sync

I love the mess

and the mud

and the doubt

and the dirt

I make love to failure

And asymmetry

and the just-a-little, little off

I love the missed details

And the mistaken

I love the lost

I love the forgotten

I love the spilled

And the leaking

I pray for the hopeless […]

Right

53 thoughts on “Right”

  1. Your lyrics express a deep appreciation for imperfection, messiness and struggle, seeing these qualities as essential and valuable. It is a tribute to what goes beyond the norms and to those who face difficulties, recognizing their beauty and importance.
    Greetings.

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    1. Yes . . .
      We can
      All Kardashian
      Influenced
      By Social Media
      With all the cosmetics
      Of Artificial Intelligence
      Reality TV
      Has become my destiny
      Where only the prettiest
      And the petty greediest
      Fed on mindless mediocrity
      Are fit for survival
      Upon the surface
      Of Planet Superficial
      No place for the spiritual
      To be uplifting
      A Love Revival

      Yes … Princess 💛
      Beauty can even be seen
      In the drips and drops 💧
      Of a drunken Jackson Pollock
      Where does it come from
      that insatiable desire for perfection?
      Perhaps it takes a rolling stone
      to find the Rock of Salvation

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      1. She has been running away from old age, in that she has made herself unrecognizable. Perhaps not to her eyes but in the eyes of others. I on the other hand embrace my aging self gradually with each imperfection. 😁😎
        I’m still kool and groovy, snap 🫰🫰

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      3. I love me some Morrison with his Irish poetic lyrics. When my daughters were young I’d sing Brown Eyed Girl except I’d change it to blue eyed girls ☺️ they still sometimes sing it to me. My girls were Irish twins. 😂

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    1. From deep inside a burlap sack, my
      thanks for your response to this poem
      by the Tigress Cara.
      Mucho aprecio, Karima 🙏😎
      I just had to do a reblog after reading.
      If there’s anything humanity can learn
      from imperfection it’s humility, with a
      touch of empathy and forgiveness for
      the shortcomings in others.

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    1. I may well be 🤔🕶️
      A square peg 🔲
      A nefarious pirate 🏴‍☠️
      With a wooden leg🦵
      And not exactly
      The pick of the crop 🍏
      So bless my scurvy soul
      I’ve now given up
      Trying to hop
      Into a round hole 🚫 😎

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    1. With much affirmation, Priti.
      Cara’s poignant poem spoke to me
      of how love can grant a presidential
      pardon in any situation. Might don’t
      make right, just as righteousness
      cannot be taken … it’s a given thing.

      “In the dime stores and bus stations,
      people talk of situations,
      read books, repeat quotations,
      draw conclusions on the wall.
      Some speak of the future,
      my love she speaks softly,
      she knows there’s no success like failure
      and that failure’s no success at all.”

      ~ Bob Dylan

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  20. It’s like a hymn for the broken, a prayer for the imperfect. There’s a relentless, almost defiant love in these lines, an embrace of the flawed and forgotten, as if to say that in all the mess and suffering, there’s still meaning, still hope. The rhythm feels like a chant, a call to arms for the lost and discarded. It feels deeply personal, yet universal.

    Cara did an amazing job on this piece!

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