Best Maniacs Poems

iPhone Maniacs

crankshaft tendencies secure a brace of sly meatballs
truth daggers entice the worm girls with petite pastas
creature lilacs uproot themselves for pink dippity-do gels
white nylon...

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oh. dear. gawd.

another patently
meaningless
crush of stanzas, jam-packed with
adjectives and color words
straight from Roget's,
strung together in
strands of misuse and
improper context -
syntax-scraping adverbs and
prepositions dangled
at inhuman angles,
rushing...

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There’s a howling in the air tonight
A baying at the moon
For the hound is running free again
And his voice has joined the tune
Of a thousand...

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Hello and my name is Claire
I’m twenty three years of age and come from nowhere
When I was young my parents moved around the UK,
Every place...

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Bike Riding

Once, I was able to navigate my sleek black Fuji racer, sitting arrow straight, pushing hard, and hands at my side. It’s amazing to...

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Her world is black. Dark,dismal,depressed.
She sees through the eyes of a maniac. Not a killer,but a twisted mess.
She is damaged. Torn apart at the very...

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I still have that letter somewhere.
You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it.
So I kept that promise,
I kept it for thirty years.
I’m...

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The the real maniacs to dread
Are ones you don't think will kill you
Not the murderers in the news you once read
In the morning think about...

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Please note this is written in Dactyl Verse and not Double Dactyl

Charlie je suis, Charlie je suis
Je suis Charlie
Freedom is us
Freedom of speech
No to violence...

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Windowpane

Sitting on the rocker above the street
Chair takes its station with the man, old and weary
Placed there in time to look out side
A broken window...

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Computers can absolutely drive us to drink
It's programmed into their memory
Just when we think things are all hunky dory
It lets us down unceremoniously

To frustrate us...

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Once the dream was to make America the shining light of the world 
a caring and compassionate country with opportunities for all
but after questioning the...

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It begins in the neurons of the brain
It ends in the stained wall most often
But pardon him for it just skids excitedly
From nowhere as a...

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People are starting to add up the facts and most don’t like what they see,
The world is rapidly deteriorating at an accelerated rate, call it...

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Eternal love is what you give me weekly…and, honestly, you put me on Cloud 9 naturally
Vivacious, vibrant California sun’s heat makes me sweat, so I...

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