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Masks (Of Hallowen)
Darkness uttermost
Howl gobblins, gooks, grinch and ghost
Dripping touch of night

Blood like curdled light
Candle tears, white serpents hiss
Shadowing the mist

Hell has broken free
Behind the masked jubilee
Of death's silent screams

Rats, pumpkins, dead dreams
In dried fairytales of leaves
Mark, our prank deceives

The shuddering knife
Not again, jack ripped his heart
With...

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Categories: gooks, mystery, seasons, visionary
Form: Haiku
My First Limerick Banger
My first car was green , red and black .

 Part Nissan , Jeep and Cadillac .

 When you pulled out the choke 

 The boot filled with smoke

 Flames farting straight out the back .


 I called it my old Batmobile 

 Made of...

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Categories: gooks, car, funny, old,
Form: Limerick
Lets Have a Toast
Lets have a toast for the jerkoffs
Lets have a toast for the assholes 
Lets have a toast for the dirtbags
Lets have a toast for the criminals 
Its not all your fault dickheads

Lets have a toast for the vigilant 
Lets have a toast for the lovers
Lets...

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Categories: gooks, corruption, fear, growing up,
Form: Ballad

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Grabberwocky-2
(November 2016)

Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove
Did whine and witter in the Brext.
All Szyddly was the Orban cove
And Grabberwock out-Mexed.

“Beware the Grabberwock, my dear,
The salesman’s talk, the dubious thatch.
Beware his leakiwick, and fear
His groomious undersnatch.”

She took her righteous sword in hand.
Her people cried “Deplore, deplore!”
So...

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Categories: gooks, humorous, parody, political,
Form: Political Verse
Red, White and Blue
Red, White and Blue

I fought in the Revolutionary war
To win freedom from tyranny 
I fought for the right to choose my religion 
For the right to live free!

No taxation without representation
Was our battle cry!
Fought to uphold the system of slavery.
We would live free or die!

I...

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Categories: gooks, america, body, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Requerimiento
(The Spanish conquerors of the
Americas read out their legal
document, the "Requerimiento",
to the Indians.  Failure to comply
meant the Spanish were free to
do what they wanted.)

Conquistadors in Vera Cruz 
found themselves a radical ruse. 
If pillaging was muy, muy lento, 
they just whipped out Requerimiento. 

Composed...

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Categories: gooks, history,
Form: Quatrain



They Caught Me Young
They Caught Me Young


The first cut is a cut so deep-
Internalising this impression
Has made me stir and creep
With invariable precision!

Great Writers caught me young
Whilst an exploring youth.
Leaning on the sublimely tongue
Exorcised my being uncouth!

Teachers, too, were adept or apt
For immersing head in writ
Could I’ve been...

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Categories: gooks,
Form: Verse
The Ranch Hand's Babies, Part 3 of 3
(When the true toxicity of Agent Orange
was finally comprehended, the Johnson 
Administration could think of nothing
better to do than simply dump the
chemical on a chain of Pacific islands,
where it sits today.  Ironically, the
place is named "Johnson's Reef".)


Johnson's Reef

This nasty gunge
is worse than nukes.
It's carcinogenic.
(Ask...

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Categories: gooks, war,
Form: Rhyme
E Pluribus Unum
It’s time, by now, we did away with nations.
I tell you, hand on heart beneath the flag,
This jingo jag has now become a drag.
Those puerile patriotic palpitations
had meaning only when we lived in tribes.
Today our people mix and mingle freely –
so can’t we now dispense...

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Categories: gooks, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Golden Triangle Snow
Golden Triangle Snow
Old skool rock and roll on the decks. Takes me back to before I was born. Smoking the best ing weed in 'Nam. Swimming in the river. Worshipping dark Gods. Making love to even darker women. Those were the days. How I miss...

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Categories: gooks, conflict, drug, military, political,
Form: Verse
A Land Without a Single Crook
A land without a single crook,
Because criminals they don't brook:
They'd out fish them with a hook
Relying in their roguish look...

A District without a Half Crook
Battered eyes to one make a spook
And as unpleasant as damned gooks...
The criminal, without fail, cooks
First claiming that he lives took

Then,...

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Categories: gooks, change, conflict, evil, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Hero Worshippers
Cherishing The Triumphs of others,
Ready for their suicidal orders:
Spellbound by their Astonishing Peaks,
These discussing for tireless weeks:
The Tall Mountains France has ascended,
In their praises lowly descended …

Marvelous ideas of US Tribes,
Whereas they can challenge their own scribes;
World Bests’ become their Third Cousins,
Only last week with...

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Categories: gooks, beauty, sports, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After Fifty Years
You won't kill the spider that scurries 
across the floor of our living room, 
but you once killed solders at the Chosin.

You called them gooks, then,
now you know each was only a man
masked by the face of dehumanizing war.

After fifty years true faces turn toward...

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Categories: gooks, war,
Form: Free verse
Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 31 May, 1970
B-52: a city on its own. 
You mess with us, we’ve got technology.
I loved it when we flew into the zone:
as Ernie said, “We’ll kill ’em till they’re free.”

My job? To watch the black cascade of death
and myriad explosions in the woods:
Louisiana lilt – “You...

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Categories: gooks, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry