Window

Window open
Breezy, wellbeing
Aliveness, liveliness

Window shut
Breezeless, ill-being
Affected, afflicted

Window a puppet
Puppeteer we
Strings, our decree

poem by Indira Renganathan
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They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

quote by Leif Garrett
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The Puppeteer

Oh master puppeteer
What is it this time.
What's on the agenda today.
Into the fray.
With no delay
Pulling strings that cause so much dismay.

It is still the cost is on our shoulders.
Leader of nothing.
With words of speeches that have no meaning.
They fell for it hook line and sinker.
Now it is time to pull off the shroud.
Show them the monster I really am.
Satan aint got sh! * on him.

Oh master puppeteer
What is it this time.
What's on the agenda today.
Into the fray.
With no delay

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poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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S. N. A. F. U.

Now, the industry has got me thinking twice
Thinking with the treble mix, gotta shake em like dice
Let the whole world know I cant go for that
Girls know that I got gold and stacks
In every cul de sac from the streets to the clubs
Im making hits and everybodys showing love
Fact is Im back and Im rolling like jackson
Wont stop until Im back at multi platinum
So I start with some action, Im the main attraction
Here to lie down to the west crackin
Stackin big chips, holmes, gotta get em
Hauling in lots of residuals, what you got
You cant choose me
Bring it to you live for the year 2g
Situation normal all fu_ked up
Situation normal all fu_ked up
Situation normal all fu_ked up
Situation normal all fu_ked up
Thought I was a puppet you tried to play me
Yeah - and Im going crazy

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song performed by Vanilla Ice
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

quote by Carlo Collodi
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The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

quote by William Jackson
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Goodbye Puppet Lady

Goodbye Puppet Lady, though they never knew you at all,

You told your Krendoll stories while toddlers at Barnes & Noble

crawled.

You walked out on to the Improv stage they whispered into your brain

Hemp named you Puppet Lady, but Razel puppet got in the way.

And it seems you lived your life like UniCandle unicorn’s flame in the

wind

Never knowing who to cling to when Razel’s ice spell set in.

Puppet Lady Fame was tough

The toughest role you ever played but Lake Worth created a Superstar

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poem by Suzae Chevalier
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Glissando of the Marionette's Strings

Impasse the futile grounds
A contorted plane by a contortionist
And a dancer the city crowned
A marionette played the optimist
Who breathe but does not live
Must she resign this grief?
Detest all that she believed?
End the direst and seek "what if? "
Docile plastic limbs are stringed
Steady your temporal haggling
Take this marionette under your wings
Underneath a promising coaxing

poem by Norman Santos
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The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

quote by Mark Bittman
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The Marionette

The marionette
Dances as it dangles down
From the plastic thread.
The hand commands it to move
With nimble fingers
And long-practiced maneuvers.
The hanging puppet
Sways in the sky, paralyzed
And helpless—playing pretend.

poem by Tim Stensloff
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lovemaking
we become shadow puppets
of the fullmoon

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon in The Shadow of the Wind (2001)
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Without Strings

if only there were no strings
there would have been no puppets of us
no marionettes
no domestication of our births in the freedom
of the wilderness

there are gods and if you see them
you also feel that there are monsters

(deep within one asks
for once, why can't we just be happy slaves?
contented pigs, singing cows, lapping dogs,
sleepy kittens? caged birds?)

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The puppet

I am not your puppet
You can’t pull my strings

I will only dance
To the tunes that I play

Arms and legs sometimes freeze
I can’t pull my own strings
Paralysed by fear

I am the puppet
And the puppeteer

So I take a knife
And I cut those strings

They were holding me back
But now my spirit soars free

I lose myself in the rhythm

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poem by Anne Morgan
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A Thorn In Their Side

(Homage to Helen Thomas)

She may be old but is tough as steel
A Journalist for more than 60 years
Asks tough questions with great zeal
Because long ago she…
Severed restraint of News puppeteers

ROTMS

poem by Ray Lucero
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Love Is Free

a puppet dances
to its own merry tune
no strings attached

poem by Paul Callus (2016)
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I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

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Easy To Know, Difficult To Practice!

We are nothing,
It is truth of Truth that
We are nothing, when compared to infinite wisdom around,
Infinite mass, infinite energy, infinite phenomena, infinite number of infinite knowledge on infinite topics around,
we were that puppets play on the stage,
Are we puppets and helpless, lifeless puppets?
No we are living puppets!

Puppets in the hands of destiny,
Is it true?
Nay, we are puppets in hands of our own desires and deeds,
Our own brilliance and folly!

If man's soul is in nature,
then he has to protect it from danger,
But a mind polluted by careless and reckless ego,
How can he keep environment clean?

If trees are cut recklessly, man will build his own cross!

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poem by Ramdas Bhandarkar
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

quote by Georg Buchner
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Episode 666

Welcome here, the squirrel-wheel begins
fasten the left hand belts
Remember not to think too much
and your trip will be numbingly pleasant
Non-caring is the easiest way
but to secure a passage to the 2nd plane
you have to complete level one
Their dead-smile lips turn on their TV
while urban gravestones scrape the skies
Rising over marionette cities and marionette skies
This is episode 666
destination chaos
Each and all an actor blind

song performed by In Flames
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