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Welcome to The McCarter Institute

Life's Teary View


Twisted under life's gripping hand

Holding time in bottles wedged cap

Our completed finishes as transposed

Unraveled through a histories rewind


Spilling furtively in evaluated examples

Left upon lights positional awakening

Carried beyond another spoiled view

Display is clear in abridged conclusion


And while revelations wide perspective

Overlooked by the faithful interactions

Falter not, reversed habitual rounding

We of higher pilgrimage rejoice blindly


Yet in the terrestrial horizons of space

Where things of the unexplained reside

Our reprisals in given situational response

Hold motionless the spinning deceleration


Saving only things we with selfish nature

Truly cherish between sheltered castings

Staged upon life's ever evolving heart-ship

While investigating miseries wanton cure


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 5/1/2025. All rights reserved



Blurry             5/1/2025

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The Road


Heavy the heart of remembrance

To be searching inside yesterday

Lost on the attainable absence

Plastered by a memories ghost


By the sands filtered movement

Teasing wishful occurrences held

Blissful recognition recedes further

Capability flails in abandonment


As cherished embodiment consumes

From a learned and practice state

Given significance to witnessed source

Still grounded before our fleshy demise


While thunderous clap of heavy heart

Pounds feverishly against skeletons cage

Igniting temptations reckless imposition

Cautions fraternal pestering serenades 


Alas the too familiar visitation to sorrow

Brings together repeat acknowledgement

Softly spoken but hardly ignored entirely

Remembrance again challenges hardship 



Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 4/1/2025. All rights reserved



Free Spirit               4/1/2025

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Somber inequities filtered through menial background

Testimonials derived of thyroid cancer, newly founded

Sheppard's following, a single-filed prone obedience

Miserables denial, the triumphant misunderstanding


Treacherous commodity, stolen advantages unknown

Sealed compliance, walking under the staged umbrella

Every waltzed footstep, a played consortium of refute

Preened anxiety, the scampered run-around deployed


Things from yesterday's rage, denominal circumstance

Flagrant degradation, wondering among tonal ignore

Myopic versions of human involvement, as bestowed

Everyday blasphemy, freshly brewed within accounting


Winters uninhabitable existence, commonly accepted

Mentalities social monitor, on permanent disconnect

Contrite presence, acting on a borrowed participation

Eventualities conclude, thunder struck before an expire


Relinquished command, times grand sutured witnessing

Sovereign engagement, spinning under repeated evolve

Timely minutes, running verily before the excited masses

Another column of character, song-and-danced abruptly




Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 3/1/2025. All rights reserved



Green Peace           3/1/2025

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Hibernating inside momentary slippage

Engulfed by random transitional speak

The flowered beginning naturally faded

Insistently displays again stayed moisture


The running of life's everyday carnage

Rounded upon our hurried inclinations

Diminish fully sincerities trying accolade

Leaving unfinished a profound meaning


And dwindling under the pressurization

Shielded beyond any redeemable grasp

Examples unforgiving ink laid scribble

Records thusly each stipulated guessing


A histories field-tested experimentation

Borne of the many temptations afforded

Flail despondently to a winded suffrage

Left billowing to a wanderer's imagination


Making totalities slow intrusive passing

Ground of repeatedly suggested homage

A series of ingrained delusional thinking

Unworthy of interpretations acknowledgement



Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 2/1/2025. All rights reserved



Bleed Through        2/1/2025

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Between The Speech



Blank signatures from invisibilities past stolen moment

Memories stringent recollections, lost in a flatulent flue

Sciolism, relinquished under muted arrogance emerged

Theaters dancing, a worlds ravished undertaking found


Spacious elaborations, spinning forth the bountiful array

Icy declarations strangle every truthful undertaking alas

Beings stone-harbored announce, timely minute's peek

Destiny, borrowed unto thy traveled everlasting abound


Pressurization, stunned between a crimped insistence

Filtered vulnerability, unto forged compliances avowed

Waning defiance's, trailing under moonlights dual comply

Clarity, spinning tween helpless shadows of fading light


Grounded denial, stages forth the chronicled reminders

Images from yesterday's beleaguered insistence remain

Evenings shade following, sheds light under twilight's fall

Spacious unfolding, dimmed of existence's known spiral


Appeasement, copiously injected on narrative pronounce

Literal insinuation, sanctimoniously broadened to height

Generality soft-spoken, within a triumphant testimonial

Tomorrow's grainer passages, tell the tale of bygone era



Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 1/1/2025. All rights reserved



Frightful Beginnings      1/1/2025

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