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    One Hundred Poems, Volume IX
    One Hundred Poems, Volume IX
    One Hundred Poems, Volume IX
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    One Hundred Poems, Volume IX

    By Tuomas Vainio

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    One hundred poems, one poem written a day, a simple concept to follow through. In more ways than just one it is almost like writing a diary. Something happens in the world at large and I cannot help but to write something down as a response, and at other times it is just life in its all mundanity. A poet’s way of distilling a single day into a few lines to be remembered through aeons. A lot has happened and most of it already feels like something a life time ago. Thus without further adieu, I present you these one hundred poems.

    The sound of loneliness
    An oppressive country
    Avoiding a thing...
    Cowardice of Scottish newspapers
    Golden Showers

    'Hate speech'
    Final Fantasy XV
    Cunt
    Back to work...
    Moment of pessimism...

    Brexit...
    'Two European Leaders'
    The day many have dreaded...
    How did that song go again?
    “#WomensMarch”

    Gender Marxists
    Despicable behaviour
    White river
    Reform or revolution
    Generic villain species (For a science fiction novel)

    Suspended from Twitter
    Election promises
    'He will not divide us'
    Sleep rhythm
    Pretence of love and fake news

    Reeeee!
    Berkeley riot
    Salt of the internet
    Blink
    Just thoughts of today...

    Bleeding-heart liberal
    Soul-selling conservative
    Where are the jokes?
    Eiffel Wall
    Sweden's Feminist Government

    'Dear White People'
    Politics in comics done right?
    Lego Batman
    Thy name comes from hypocrisy
    #PewDiePieDidNothingWrong

    A meaningless word in ten years
    It begins anew...
    Trump 2020
    300 Russian hackers? To sort emails? REALLY?
    Trenches of a culture war

    So much for that peace
    Nothing but fake news
    Future Filtered
    A thing about free speech
    John Wick: Chapter 2

    I'm sexy
    A poem about online polls
    Lone wanderer
    Trump's “thin skin”
    European union silences any dissent

    Slush
    The age of walls
    A touch of madness (For a science fiction novel)
    Two five year old friends
    Half a moon

    Those men of ill intends
    After a snowfall
    Yet another '#' about women in the west...
    Vault7
    How could you not love humanity?

    And a novel draws to a close...
    Toothpaste
    Power of repetition
    On a distant world (For a science fiction novel)
    Dutch Election Results

    The radical left and garbage bins
    Faces of Andromeda
    That topic that escapes me mind
    Cover songs
    Go ahead, make my day...

    Some tears of joy
    The world that wasn't
    Art is not fit to stand among STEM fields
    Almost done...
    With headlines like these

    Iron Fist and its reviews
    Old media's war on the new
    Summertime madness
    Brexit Day
    Speech at the wall (For a fantasy novel)

    A society of ropes and canes
    So tired
    Ghost in the Shell
    The last multicultural empire of old Europe
    Distrust

    Winter is dead, so long live the spring
    The horrors of Syria
    I spat on the back of a flying seagull
    About recent events in Sweden
    Vote

    Sleep...
    No need for broadcasting licenses
    Life is strange (For a science fiction novel)
    Loneliness is bad for the economy

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuomas Vainio
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9781370409235
    One Hundred Poems, Volume IX
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    Tuomas Vainio

    I write, I read, and the typos are still there. It is the crux of my life. Anyhow, my published works should not be overpriced and in some outlets you might be even able to set your own price!

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      One Hundred Poems, Volume IX - Tuomas Vainio

      The sound of loneliness

      The house sounds so empty,

      Every second feels like twenty,

      And it is a day just like any,

      But I would not wish for many,

      Because loneliness is heavy,

      Unseen force that is truly scary,

      The hardest burden to carry,

      Blinded within any great library,

      It is an impossible adversary,

      And there is no hope of sanctuary,

      As an experience unnecessary,

      It is a foul curse to become solitary,

      Its horror may remain imaginary,

      Until finally thrust upon involuntarily.

      An oppressive country

      Do you know what lies underneath the snow,

      Is it dirt and stones or plants ready to grow,

      Just biding time with temperature low,

      Waiting for the spring sun's glow,

      But days pass ever so slow.

      Imagine if a mere opinion gets you killed,

      Then silence alone makes you gilled,

      But you are never truly thrilled,

      As reality lies unfulfilled,

      Yet truth gets instilled.

      The pressure remains ever growing,

      With a rate that is never slowing,

      But without strength showing,

      You will not see elbowing,

      But it is still ongoing.

      Thus on one day barriers break,

      It will seem a massive shake,

      But if you had been awake,

      It is not much of a quake,

      And world is less fake.

      Avoiding a thing…

      And here I am slacking off once more,

      Editing my poems feels like a chore,

      So things remain in my drawer,

      Perhaps for a day or four,

      Not a moment before.

      Cowardice of Scottish newspapers

      Are they addressing issues or doing honest reporting?

      No, they have chosen the path unsporting,

      One of dangerous courting,

      And self thwarting.

      A man online spoke views they did not exactly fancy,

      Ones that I do not even find slightly dandy,

      Yet the newspapers did something nasty,

      Perhaps in hopes of a headline flashy,

      They revealed his address and panty,

      Throwing him at mercy of vigilante,

      With no mercy granted to his family.

      And yes, this was just an attempt to deny credibility,

      One born out of pure bigotry of mental senility,

      It doesn't matter if views lack agree-ability,

      If this man becomes a victim of hostility,

      By granting him the victim's legibility,

      You absolve him of any culpability,

      You have increased his audibility.

      It really is a sorry state with our far right and far left,

      Because neither side is actually acting deft,

      As bigotry blinds them from bereft,

      It is each other they heft.

      > It is only a matter of time…

      > Until the far right answers in kind…

      > And reveals reporter home addresses online.

      Golden Showers

      Someone on the chan boards has claimed credit,

      And that is unsurprisingly all it takes to discredit,

      Whatever was previously pushed out by the media,

      As their mistakes already fill an entire encyclopedia.

      And if you ask me; Trump can sleep in tubs of uremia,

      It is not that odd if you recall one victim of ophidia,

      Perhaps some are now furiously typing a new edit,

      But it is too late, this nonsense is their only credit.

      'Hate speech'

      Few days yet ago another man was put on a trial,

      For a reason as nonsensical as it is vile,

      Because some words might rile,

      There is a need for a spile,

      So pretentious twats could smile,

      Abuse power just for a moment while,

      Before they are pushed aside by the electoral dial.

      Huge headlines about tears shed before the court,

      A lurid example of how they comport,

      Without a single thought to abort,

      They

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