Best Cache Poems

Therein lies your beauty
testify to me no longer
of dandelions and daffodils
of butterflies and bumblebees
do not chant as crows
beyond sight scatter
then gather
in frigid naked trees
diseased with
discord
disaffection
malfeasance.

The recompense for
transgressions
lays waste to beauty’s cache
of finery
of magnificence
of splendor
do not disgorge sorrows
breathlessly
from your heaving chest
that conclave of muted
dreams vague and dreary
do not yearn
for lovely things
that
evade you
elude you
avoid you.

Talk then of
gnarled...

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A sunset, pixilated, colored RGB,
a virtual bit world envelops me.
Watch .gif waves break upon a gravel beach,
in endless patterned loop Mew glide and screech.

Each click leads to another, yet unplanned,
connected all by fiber optic band.
As users pass with only offered tweet,
hash tag emoticons, each is so sweet.

Sound in MP3 and addictive chat,
all input loads in...

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Filch sweet treasure
Filch my cache
Cache in gut now
cache your hide
Hide dear brother
hide your skull 
skull so empty
skull obtuse 
obtuse to pain
Obtuse maneuver
Maneuver wisely
maneuver quickly
Quickly dodge
Quickly duck
Duck my swing
Duck your head
Head for door
head for hell
Hell won’t have you
hell rejects
Rejects your kind
rejects too wicked
wicked and vile 
wicked transgressor
Transgressor supreme
transgressor remiss
remiss to insight
insight that guides
insight that condemns
condemns injustice
condemns...

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Hidden by glasses dark and thick, what color, the eyes that glimmer?
I often wondered at the intellect hidden deep in those orbs.
Wondered at the mystery that laid back head tilt simmers,
what wife, what child, what family, what allegiances absorbed.
His cheeks are full, his brow is high, the classics he's informed,
but where is his better half,...

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on ...
those "some" days
u smile
u wink
u laugh (pity)
sing, maybe
get the "gotta" done
baby steps
(babies can't walk)
still ...
place each foot
put IT on -
the mask
the act
la grande scène
you've perfected it
yeah ...
takes years
but u get it down
HAVE 2
cuz if they
knew what churned
within ...
or, even worse
what DIDN'T
they'd freaking bury
your sorry
aching
empty
ass ...
without 1.
consecrated.
tear.






Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, November 30, 2022...

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cool waters gurgling
across seven soft sandstones
coy crawdads cache

written January 17, 2022
written for "Nature Haiku with Alliteration" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Tania Kitchin
syllables checked by PS...

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on ...
those "some" days
u smile
u wink
u laugh (pity)
sing, maybe
get the "gotta" done
baby steps
(babies can't walk)
still ...
place each foot
put IT on -
the mask
the act
la grande scène
you've perfected it
yeah ...
takes years
but u get it down
HAVE 2
cuz if they
knew what churned
within ...
or, even worse
what DIDN'T
they'd freaking bury
your sorry
aching
empty
ass ...
without 1.
consecrated.
tear.






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