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Welcome to The McCarter Institute

Murky Mindset


11/1/2025


Tinkered backlash pound grounded before shadowed bow

Happenings continue to flutter back and forth under ruse

Filtered shenanigans conjure up the crimped affirmations

Pestered abominations cruise the jungled avenues of time


Howls, again pushed under the cloudy misdirected by-lines

Destiny's chosen postulations scamper through realities seat

Brambles characterization intensifies between timed hustle

Everybody spooled upon yesterday's thunder collaborations


Quiet's themed departure from administered undertaking

Bludgeoned services smoldering, in unavailable reproach

Sovereign commodities sashing under and between a guise

Breeched promises flowing loosely down intentions stream


Carnage engaged with nefarious partnerships doubled dialed

Painstaking evolvement transformed into the benign dribble

Tabulations stony record, fissured among tomorrow's awing

Wanderers footfall, sliding froward to oblivions sequestering


Blind attack, a personal advantage ingrained in upbringing

Consummated defamation, affluent to a mimicked plight

Gainful change, decimated from normality's proven concept

Autumn's growing popularity, now daily's preoccupied show




Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 11/1/2025. All rights reserved



Pumpkin Pit Fall  11/1/2025                                                                       

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Darkness, The Unveiled Truth

10/1/2025


Memory, combined unto theatrics stolen moments

Flightless migrations wonder the spindled passage

Egregious unveilings within a times peppered allow

Midnights darkness, uncovers realities blind revolt


Grave innuendos feathery upon glided insistence

Visions broad based calamity a sheltered resolve

Tonal acknowledgement as scarcely heightened

Winded examinations trail, life's silent following


Blended infractions, host preparatory involvement

Sailings abandoned tutelage belie intentions rathe

Menial connectivity, danced of flagrant callousness

Watery conclusions fall to eyelid pressing, two-fold


Promised shenanigans, retreat in embarrassment

Heresy again spun of deviled intentions, unfrozen

Decimation ingrained in deviations spiraled web

Thunders resounded echo, a pounded repeating


Dreams collective, overshadowed by the remorse

Cradled pampering, long ignored within awareness

Stepping's drilled cadence, angry filled compliance

Holograms positioned appearance, staged fodder



Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 10/1/2025. All rights reserved



Scary Ooh No 10/1/2025                                                                        

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Up And Down

9/1/2025


The witnessed account of time

Delivered through patience

Have meanings declaration

Presented in judicious light


Swollen matchstick caricatures

Visually exhibited among canvas

Aged to history's proper demise

Languished sportingly in unison


Livings momentary courtship

Twisting beneath pressures thumb

Continue along to rhythms stanza

Forfeiting any chanced redemption


As prepositional understanding

Investigates the vicarious spillage

The minuscule delivery rendered

Loosely infiltrates saturation's end


And each missed opportunity realized

Wasted to hastily garnished ideals

Those images devoid of recalculation

Hover knowingly beyond consciousness



Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 9/1/2025. All rights reserved



Life's Lazy River 9/1/2025                                                                        

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Sweet Dreams

8/1/2025


Misty enthralled remembrances

Gathered under visual highlights

Softly echoing the spent minutes

Uncover again a savory blend


Every inch of bright glowing blend

Sincerely delivered in wonderment

Hypnotizing in all its pure nature

Capture the released understanding


Feathered temperament alas swayed

Giving of the highest found example

Newly announced to simplicity's end

Spin the rounded passages of routine


The heated macabre to involvement

Solely transparent of maliciousness

Placating skeptical tip-toed advance

Bleeds readily inside trying solutions


And once more timely stayed minutes

Rejoicing to history's known accounts

Playfully remind of theory's wanting

Staging finalizations sweet goodnight


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 8/1/2025. All rights reserved



Cotton Candy       8/1/2025

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Me Without You

7/1/2025


Serendipities mongrelly surround before egregious behavior

Testimonies vicarious unwind, a sculptured witnessing review

Degradation beholds a challenged belief syndrome unleashed

Theaters announced presentation, fraudulent characterizing


Remedial trauma, forged tween thy nocturnal forgetfulness

Pestilence emanating decayed blaspheme throughout ranks

Heathenism languished afore eyes cloudy introduced alliance

Mimed occurrence the staged happenstance of regurgitation


Clemency retreated under filings standardized unfolding truth

Macabre's total grounded, hegemonic undertow relinquished

Breeched channeling surrenders to destinies barbaric miscue

Thunders horrific demise, timely minutes social ignorant blind


Minstrels dancing dilemma, shaded soft-shoe tappped sonata

We ponder outrageous aftermath slovenly administered afar

Paralyzing rebuttal analytically processed investigative convey

Witnessing rapture from a buffoons grifted, mind twisted ego


Tyrannies showering affront to existence, leads unobstructed Fated parallel of reciprocity dangle among weak minded allies

Another stale reminded of indecisive commitment to a cause

Grievances squandered of non-participated acknowledgment 




Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 7/1/2025. All rights reserved



Foggy Mentality         7/1/2025

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Memory Lane

6/1/2025


Inside minds dangerous avenue

Lost among the traveling psyche

We revel in blemished wonders

Seeking audience with honesty


The twisted wreckage of memory

Spoiled of yesterday's primping

Dutifully performs the rendition

Mesmerizing in sporting glory


As every calculated dispensation

Coined in longevity's stony arena

Withers unto the dusty finality

Spilling forth a graying solution


Our neatly folded understanding

Tested before irony's laden path

Blend sparingly rainbow's results

Casting expressive shallow outlines


And preening to tried examples

We broadcast temptations calling

Hoping for a remedial forgiveness

Something for the long, lonely road


Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 6/1/2025. All rights reserved



Thinking Green           6/1/2025

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Life's Teary View

5/1/2025



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

4/1/2025



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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See Me

3/1/2025


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

Welcome to The McCarter Institute

No Answer Required

2/1/2025


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

1/1/2025


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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