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Complicated Understanding | December 2020

Troubled Mentality

Today’s thread of a borrowed existence revealed

Periods dancing reminder shadowed unto truthful

Dreams finality sailing to struggles night guided slip

Evenings shechted follow the unsung rueful deny


Troubled aftermath running among ubiquity found

Stipulated onslaught gangly administered abruptly

Feelings taught control staged in apprehensive sty

Deliberations stolen collaboration field fodder seen


Skepticism wading before the channeled advance

Leveraged promises spinning of redundant spying

Every-day’s stolen compliance to ruled agreement

Forever’s mimed concurrence, again blind stature


Wander’s bland experience to natured revealing

Memories freefall inside thy real-time departure

Black butterfly’s aged connectivity, sorrows display

Sky’s fire routed boundary, the blazed aftermath


Remembrances staggered compliance to understand

The Sheppard demanding to sheltered encumbrance

We conduct wayward journey of pressured demand

Yesterday’s unfolding of reality, a conclusive finality


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 12/1/2020. All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Ink Blot Interpretation| November 2020

Meaningful Understanding, of False Truth

Today’s fashioned deliverable, of enhanced result

Evenings engorged aftermath to a witnessed spy

Thunders passionate following into a complexity

Beginnings borrowed tomorrow sheds ugly truth


Actuality derived of a shady persistence allowed

Memories cadence, stomped within benign view

Pressures grounded remembrance alas tone-deft 

Wheeled engagement, languished fundamentals


Shadows hardship running through fielded concur

Feelings stretched reminder, unsung, and crimped

Recalled viewings, from a yesterday’s beckoning

Gilded interceptors dance upon the fire hot plea


Spears tonal inception to occasional reminders

Things derived between our life’s hurting moon

Visuals involuntary insinuation, sounded verbally

Boisterous accusations, again heatedly inferred 


Witnessing’s grimaced control, the solemn ending

Evenings miscue, a damnation’s stolen compromise

All the pretty flowers, a falsely stained collaboration

Newly found information, reveals a chronic unrest


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 11/1/2020. All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Turbulent Viewing | October 2020

Today's Unleashing

Evenings tried patience from daily’s understand

Faithful’s solemn meander among walking’s sty

Winded peril once again, a biased understanding 

Gathered compliance, today’s harrowing peek


Selfish bother, living a temporary timeless setback 

Insiders betrothed following from memories allow

Destiny’s agitation, alas beyond flagellating repeat

Grey-scaled destinations reveal fabricated real-life 


Theaters controlled altercations of biased lively

Clothed participants dancing to lyricize innuendoes 

Sustenance built of a stature’s false compliance

Bred collective, spinning under the microwave


Trepidation's televised broadcast, the unraveling

Generational miscuing lost under timely minutes

Secular evolvement divided unto a period’s stager

Routines blinded following, the cherished agree


Pressured happenstance, a histories alignment

Floating passages from soothsayer’s calm repeat

Colorful alliances unite the dreamy affirmations

Predatory conclusion file endings after-glowing  


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 10/1/2020. All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Weary & Worried | September 2020

Growing Pains

Enemy's precious conundrum, filed unto residual

The rounded kaleidoscope blends before eyeing

Verily a sounded happenstance, grinds profusely

Winded are  challenged investigations, untethered


Grimly unto a featured compliance, as witnessed

Stony hemorrhages flow under a silenced comply

Terrors foiled defamation, crying raged aftermath

Memories accountable departure, a toothy betrayal


Today's challenged revival, nose-dives to abandon

Deceitful allure running thru gleeful resuscitation

Earthy happenings, again blue-filled propaganda

Heresy stepping onto a main-streamed broadcast


Stature, glorified because of the shining epidemy

Flavors sweetened spoilage, a sour remains fruit

Levelers attempt at justifications holy inclination

Witnessed accounting, runs the gambit of reveal


Pestering involvements slow-drawn to conclusions

Twilights ongoing sonata, dancing unto mooniness

Cloudy betrayal sinning before a grateful releasing

Timely minutes again running familiar roundabout


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 9/1/2020. 

All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Wondering from yesterday’s blackened existence
Livelihood drowned between borrowed comply
History al

Judge Who? | August 2020

Half Past The Hour

As the dance of the brooded dilemma, surrounds a skepticism

Hosted vestiges cringe before destruction, awaiting an invitation

Menial fodder, a timetables arrangement to tokens spoiled deny

Carriages abandoned suites, drowned inside miseries tunneling


Neutralized acclimations, redundant before the banded routine

Habitual compliances spell-drenched in languished compromises

Trepidation soiled of histories combative, long defeated engage

Solitaries squalor, toying with limited possibilities of aberration


Eclipsed visuals under the direct guidance sanctioned denials

Perishable attributes skim, timely minutes surfaced landscape

Broadness compelled of whispering shadows, thinly interwoven

Destiny, gliding just above irony's composed forefront, knowingly


Strength, running thru a worm-holes ever shrinking entrapment

Memories volitle recall, raging to minds high-winded ineptitude

Painted caricatures rehearsing scripted entertainment from life

Nomenclature written, and produced, under stupefied contract


Solitudes lonely administration compassion, ablaze to falsehood

De-monstrous struggles, waning under weighted apprehensions

Worldly phenomenon, a towering ineffective proclamation stat

Bumbling confirmations, colorfully spun unto life's stolen fabric



Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 7/31/2020. 

All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Black Roses | July 2020

Blue Sky, Grey Vision, Stone Heart

Minstrel investigations of plagued abandon

Volatile conspiracy tone-deaf to occupancy

Yesterday’s happenstance occasional fatigue

Tonight’s breathing is difficult in actuality


Repeating apathies to a life-long patronage

Skillfully blended under a lethargic absentee

Daily’s grounded insinuations silently awry

A memories stagnant undertaking, besieged


Faux Pas emanating before gatherings peek

Shielded propaganda conveniently unveiled

Histories fickle recollections thistly drawn

Bygone days wasted in denials paraphrase


Sutures twisted fate to acute manipulation 

Tidings willful pleasure, an inside tutelage

Heresy’s compliance under lawful pursuits

A gangly following, staged between repeat


Dream seepages, from mentalities domain

Cloudy unto rainbow leaking colorizations

Plentiful are tragedies slow-drawn filming

Tungsten maneuvers, wield iron atrocities


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. 

Copyright 7/1/2020. All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

This month's poem and painting is both a reflection and an interpretive rendition that reflections of "Redundancies Image." This poem is written by and the painting painted by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Black Man | June 2020

Because We Still Believe

Mirror’s profound deciding of righteous reveal

The staged compliance from yesterday’s speak

Evenings thunder, of confrontational revolving

Theater’s practiced arrangements lost resistance


Weary traveler’s destined advance, a struggle

Heresy strung of a biological repeal, unknown

Mentalities conflict dealing inside rudimentary

Pressured pilgrimaging, a life’s ended resulting 


Following’s blinded allow, a memories abandon

Diversified beginnings, again at timely forefront

Totalities conditional exempt, undone on denial

Statures resulting allowing missing solid anchor


Trifecta’s round-about conclave of weird science

Colorful pledges spun thru a collective resolving 

Thriving passages scraped thru the picturesque 

Evenings colorful unveiling upon timely minutes


Today’s parade between totalities understanding

Stolen belief’s thunder, stuck on rains borrowing

Cloudy insinuations again smear horizons future

Livings broad expectation, the unspoiled untruth


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. 

Copyright 5/1/2020. All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

The event of Monday, May 25, 2020 (Memorial Day) has us all seeking a collective resolve. 

In memory of George Floyd.

This is a literary work and painting of 

The McCarter Institute. 

All rights reserved.

Corona-Mona - Copyright 4-28-2020

Corona-Mona | May 2020

Another Round of Real

Today’s memories from a theater's dynamic entry  

Bounded sequences under times biopic displaying

Miniscule deprivation overshadowed by blind repeal

Gristle alliances, field check the wondering persona


Yesterday’s homage floating under midnights spiel

Corridors sashay, tiptoeng through remembrance  

Again, the quantified example finds a putrid palace

Silence migrating beyond empties bellowing merge


Tenacious insistence fielded, unto innocence held

Cowering guidance, from precarious understanding

Withered examples to pragmatic ineptitude renown

Times reboant decertation permeates ground zero


Thunder ridden catastrophes upon cloudy review

Striking suffrages viewed tween misty eyed glow

Fearful collections to a misery’s bonded accolade

Harrowing the timed renewal of ageless reminder


Revisited sanctions run again in unleashed squalor

Grounded sacrifice, thinned of purposed release

Invisible audacity, spinning a tale within destitute

Corona-mona paced to succeed a quested resulting


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. 

Copyright 4/28/2020. All rights reserved.

#Corona-Mona

This literary work and painting is an Interpretive Concept for Life, our motto, of the Coronavirus, entitled, "Corona-Mona" a copyright of Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. (4/28/2020). All rights reserved. 

For more information or permission to use the "Corona-Mona" coined mantra, any poems or paintings on this website, please email us at rsr@TheMcCarterInstitute.com.

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Dream Catchers Viewing | April 2020

What we See, we Witness, we Reveal

Again, times dwindle; stings of life’s cycled conclude

Veins engorged failure toppled before route to flight

Feathery commencements shine of dreams deferred

Landscapes cloudy destiny, a peer-pressured involve 


Sinister fabrications align theaters show-cased peek

Happenstance composed of borrowed remembering

Evenings conclude, a stolen moment in down-time

Brackish compilations to uncertain realizations felt


Brevities shining accolades, aglow to a suns heating

Fluid the binding connectivity before eyes unfold

Shadows conspicuous nature, running unto stealth

Grievous innuendoes dance among daylight’s spy


Footfalls shooing, wandered onto a times disbelief 

Survival’s minute, timely undertaking inside futility

Today’s unheralded following, the blind insistence

Memories investigated unfolding, lost to a triviality


Timeouts calling, bouncing afore diction undisturbed

Exceptions flounder unable, inside responsive rebuttal

Healed defiance, alas running under earthly revolve

Windows uncontrolled visual, a red-eyed witnessing


Written by Raymond J. McCarter. Copyright 4/1/2020.

All rights reserved


Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

This month's poem and painting is both a reflection and an interpretive rendition that reflects stolen "a stolen moment in down-time." This poem is written by and the painting painted by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Witnessed Accounting | March 2020

In loving memory of my Son, Raymond Jeffery McCarter, Jr.

My feelings of distinct removal, hurt beyond real

Yesterday, and today; fight for control of my soul

Misery swells, thru the veins of my embodiment

Dreams of future life for my son’s, fades abruptly


The senseless act from a stranger’s carelessness

Seals the chapter, consuming an extinguished end 

This factual, and repeated acts of inconsideration

Continually wreaks havoc upon my innocent family

It pains me to the core, while leaving me helpless


My living, bleeds with the absolute avoidable tragedy

I try to console the completeness of the ended result

However, every step I attempt, holds a certain disdain

Fevers livelihood, strongly disagrees with the repeat


Horrific incidents happen because of critical mistakes 

However, when done venomously, in repeated casual  

Yesterday’s blistered involvement to witnessed account

Reveal total disdain for all of life’s humanitarian welfare

 

Every moment relived in the yesterday of my son’s life

Stealing vibrant theaters of my accomplished following

I believe that justice will sanctify their removed presence

However, when the dusty settlement comes, I still weep


Written by Raymond J Mc Carter Sr. Copyrights 3/1/2020.

All rights reserved 

Spoken Colors | February 2020

Shielded Viewing

A fever stands between the now and tomorrow

Times distant following on blind-sided allowing 

Investigation's detour, minutes traveling oblige

Revival's compliance, turning a silent insistence


Gravely minstrels, wonder through a guilted spy

Evenings destruction, steps along putrid resolve

Pressure scans along theaters bleak life horizon

Aftermath sinning the swan songs completeness


Verily, the monologue's sanctioned retentiveness

Seasoned factions delved upon the ruptured cry

Feeble reminders to yesterday's stolen depression

Grinded apparitions swarming around fires blaze


Tension tightly strung between involvements deny

Livings dancing sonata twirls under lighted display

Merrily those timely minutes transpose awareness

Situations diagnosed conclusion, ill-fated conclude


Pestilent happenstance donned before a perverse

Memories blended unto a collided sense of  reveal

Overtures commanded thunder, rounded dispute

Tomorrow's stolen moment, our silent departure


Written by Raymond J. McCarter Sr, Copyright 2/1/2020.

All rights reserved.


Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

This month's poem and painting is both a reflection and an interpretive rendition during black history month. - This poem is written by and the painting painted by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

Trails Following - January 2020

A Call to Life

Eve’s brand-new beginning, shuttered before mine reveal

Today’s eye, spinning upon the rising clouds of tomorrow

Memories total recall, sheds light upon yesterday’s flaw 

Things of a backward following, uninterrupted negatives


Captured sequences run through hurtful remembrance

Shadow figures dance among feather-fragile heartbeats

Feelings squandered threshold of pressurized existence

Bonded presence wondering in lost heart-ship sacrificed

 

Deepened awakening from travels slow-drawn cadence

Preservations hard defined statutes of a ruled agreeing 

Sorrows connectivity long-winded in actualities comply

Penalties divine remittance collides with wanted result


Beginnings harrowing experience tread a lined resolve

Mindful acceptance challenges the educated remember

Repeating, a theater of acknowledged understanding

Landings polar exploration, things from empty promise


Winged migrations from here to the earthy Netherlands 

Searched interpretations of a truthful deemed evaluation

Destiny, rounded before the timely minutes of ubiquity

Life’s horses running to the chant of humanities revolve


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 1/1/2020. 

All rights reserved.

Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

This month's poem and painting is both a reflection and an interpretive rendition of new beginnings as we transition from 2019 to a new century of 2020. This poem is  written by and the painting is painted by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr.

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