Best Residuals Poems


Premium Member Childhood Dreams

Naiveté wraps the child
until the chills slowly
begin to snuggle in,
smothering the illusions leaving
the residuals of sickness
and disappointment
that is man.

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Contest: Fallen
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Entrant: Rob Carmack
Written: 11.29.15
Word Count: 25

My person was the entire human race.  As a child, I viewed adults as ethically advanced and emotionally stable.  Thought of world as an Utopia – the best trip I ever had.  From this disappointment, I was given the contrast to appreciate forgiveness and those I found that are advanced.

Premium Member Alphabet Constructs 3 2 1

Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees

Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities

Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios

Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires

Echo endophfins eulogize bullet brain excrement

Fecal folly fantasies reveal relevant frivolities

Gonadal grownups gulp secret scrotal generosities

Helical hemorrhoids hinder senior stricken hemocraps

Idiotic ideals idioiosyncrate postpartum iconoclasts

Jack Jill juxtapositories seek sexestential jouveniers

Kryptic killer kisses ascot arrogant kingdumbs

Liquid lipid loiners fear frontline lucklullibies

Malevolent mommies masterbate rich reflective mommocules

Nevertheless nightingales nourish ruby rich noonbeams

Ovulatory occults outsource torrent tofu outrages

Pensive pisces picnics lovelorny passions 

***** quiet quintensials release rancid quotients

Rape ripe residuals nullify nimble repercussions

Silky seafoam silhouettes fornicate frothy sandlets

Tepid torch trilogies belie belligerent tourniquets

Useless utterances utilize organize orgasmic utopias

Venomous vixens violate cruel.com visions

White willow wombs softly seed hospice hell winds

XX XY xfactors envision extracurricular xraydoms

Yearning yoyo yesterdays calculate clearcovert yields

Zen zealous zions mirror magnify Zoneotones

Me, Myself and Critique

Allow me a moment to deconstruct,,
Every wall characteristically set up.
And all the fabricated stories from corrupt
Individuals; Residuals of a past, 
I broke through and shattered like sugar-glass. 

Let me tell you; I'm not invincible. 
My personality is not intrinsical. 
My body nor mind isn't irresistible. 
Sometimes my heart and my head cosmically clash,
Emotion covers my face like a rash.

I'm a disastrously lousy liar; 
I can't hold piss for pounds if its worth a few pence.
In debates I can never just "sit on the fence", 
I need to say my bit no matter how intense
The opposite argument may make sense.

I like to drink like most twenty year olds, 
Though sometimes I drink more than my emotions hold,
And sometimes I let those emotions slip in tears 
And open my heart to all my sorrows and fears.
But god forbid I should have a pained heart. 

God forbid I should live a life of youth,
And drink from it all the human traits of life's juice.
When happiness and suffering go hand in hand
I still bleed love and loyalty from every gland... 
...Because I believed in those sacred fruits.

Well just because I build a barricade,
And paint on a brave face to replace my true self
Don't categorically place me on that shelf;
Among alcoholics, arrogant clowns and thieves,
Who handed you the gavel to judge me?

Though all of this stuff may file under "Me",
Don't think I wouldn't move sun and earth, part the sea,
To bring to you what you hold dearest of the dear. 
That I wouldn't hunt through fire-filled chasms, your fears. 
Because, what is love without a few tears?


The River Styx

Atmospheres of the weary tears that flow through the river Styx
Bonded by the watchful eye for Hades is in the molten mix

Cerberus is in his bliss as he watch’s the grotesque gates of hell
Death becomes as it nocturnally numbs the souls underneath its spell

Eurynomos watching rotting corpse’s aromas of the dying dead
Ferryman extends his hand, Charon’s purse must be faithfully fed

Grimly graves in massive waves of victims frivolously falling in
Hell awaits with open gates as the pandemonium does begin

Ignominious retreat for those that would repeat many lifetimes
Jagged rivers edge for those who would wedge their cunning crimes

Kabbalistic rituals leave their residuals as the underworld is overflowing
Lachrymal souls never reach their goals even in their constant crowing

Many do make it as the rest can’t shake it, to outrun the rivers grasp
Necromantic wizards cross the rivers to help undo the candescent clasp

Odysseus in his cunning shall be stunning the querulous Queen as he planned
Persephone in her majesty rigidly rules the underworld by candid command.



In Greek Mythology...a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld (the domain often called Hades, which also is the name of its ruler)


Cerberus...often called the "hound of Hades", is a monstrous multi-headed dog, who guards the gates of the underworld, preventing the dead.

Eurynomos...was the netherworld daimon (spirit) of rotting corpses dwelling in the Underworld.

Charon...is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx...for a price(coins)

Odysseus...hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey...was a frequent visitor.

Persephone...was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and the queen of the underworld. She was abducted by Hades.



Sept.03.2016
Alphabet Soup - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman

Ode To Race

I could write about the white man and everything he’s done

or I could write about the black man

and all the victories he’s won

I could write about a person of every stereotype

but thats just a hype

and judgings not right

I could write about racism

and all the civil wars

or I could write about a place where hate is no more

I could write about a place where all individuals

are not solely based on ancestral residuals

No more colors, races, or creeds,

Just helping our neighbors with everything they need

This is the Dream that Dr. King had,

To stop looking at skin color,

would that be so bad,

I could write about how things will always stay the same,

 or I could write to make a difference,

And be the one to start the Change

Premium Member ''Quantum Mechanical'': An Exercise in the Lyrical

So, so lyrical,
yet logical,
it's certainly atypical;
and not proverbial, 

but integral
and oh, most controversial!
But is it topical,
optical,

even for the intellectual
to see the actual
pragmatical
to its theoretical?

So casual, gradual, 
and implausible,
it’s almost incomprehensible
were it not for the owner’s manual.

It, too, appears eternal,—
not temporal.
Never mind paradoxical.
Damn! it’s infernal...

Alas, it'll be too “illogical”
for the head magisterial,
whose financial
committee might find it problematical.

Still, the crux is perennial:
it’s too pivotal
to not state the irrefutable
with extra audible mega-decibels

if the funding residuals
for scientific experimentals
like the quantum mechanical
are incommensurable,

which is thus deplorable,
intolerable, insufferable,
disagreeable, horrible,
and most unsupportable
(in my view as a professional)!


Little Orchard

Stand there tall beautiful orchard
Your green 
shine to dilate my visions
I have seen you wilt at your worst
And I have seen you ride the tide to flourish

O flourish. Wet my tongue in season
And bank my life's residuals
I share you with the ones that rent a nest
The ones that mourn the day and fly the 
night.

I will never know any more invisible hands
There are the ones that steal a gallon of 
seeds
There are birds that feeds on your fruits' 
juices
Then the ground that hugs you in 
complements

Little Orchard lay a busket on my doorsteps
For I had closely nurtured and nursed your 
buds
Feed my spirit for in you I have self 
fulfilment
In you I am proud to watch and whine 
with the guests,
'beautiful orchard it is'.

Premium Member Red Hearts


"Red Hearts" 

In black and white, 
openings 
and dead ends abound;

Words read. 
Hearts read.

What matter the colours 
of skin and minds now? 
The best of us 
sat in hell. 
Take consolation in that -

He made His way out, 
for us, for Himself.

A Poet-Prophet - no doubt, 
lessons in complexity, 
embedded deep, 
forgotten by most of such belief. 
Isolated and removed, we try hard, 
we try our best to follow 
like hungry sheep.

You’re in good company now. 
Aren’t you? 
You’re in good company now? 
The best of us
has sat in hell, 
He, 
made His way out.

We look inward daily
at our self-imposed rituals, 
each word hung on a line - 
dissolving into a wall, we're just residuals. 
Our reflections mirrored in the all-seeing power, 
the paler shadows cast outward 
from our removed selves, where –

Love casts its spells. 
Love will always cast its spells.

Blind eyes turn away, 
laughing it all out loud 
like simple jokes needing to be expelled. 
Blind eyes turn away. 
What is past is forgotten here, 
in the mostly untarnished always.

Hearts hearing truth 
will tell it as it is – 
always.

Without hesitation, without doubt, 
they cast their spells out loud.
Their words speak truth, bleeding, 
swimming like salmon upstream, 
just as they are – 
alone, unclouded, would-be poets 
with muddled hearts up in the clouds,

watching for their Shining North Star 
amongst all the falling stars.

We look inward, some of us, 
for the meaning of who we truly are.  
It seems so close, yet removed, so far; 
We make our way out, 
in the end, somehow. 
Words read. 
Hearts read.

Love 
has the strongest power, 
somehow.

Love 
is what is needed most. 
When delivered without proof – 

unconditional, 
Love will always save us.

This could hurt…

pierced hearts are read here, 
bleeding strong power.


Candide Diderot. ‘26

Premium Member Innovation

innovation? that's easy
take a genenorater attatach it to a rope
connected to a down hill skier
and let him go through a planed down hill slope
and that's energy.
repete over and over again for a substancial amount of energy
for the winter months. contact me for the residuals.

Moving, Slow Motion

Had to move back to the city
 the suburbans too sidity  
had me and my feelings and I couldn't even feel it
Got hit with a brick and didn't fidget 
Hard knocks knock sense in ya or knock ya senseless 
My strength is 
within  
Mysterious and mystic


Superior submissive-ness
A Derivative 
of the state of delirium 
We need  to be delivered from
 Ancestral residuals 
Leave us descendants 
Either scared are relentless 
Getting    back to it 
I had too move
Out the way 
to get back too it
Turn my back to it
Go back through it
But do it
To detach delusion

Premium Member Midsummer Midnight

midsummer midnightand sweet dreams
orchestra of crickets
    a steady snore
blades spinning overhead
     moon tapping the blinds
midsummer              midnight
eyes darting back & forth
      between fantasias
and goosebumps, nebulosity
      between reality
and surrealism
                                midsummer midnight
the court of inside & out
       each one, unknown
to the other - a cup of joe
       extracts the residuals
fog lifts with cream and a pour

One In a Billion

Eyes shift left and right filling,
With every one in a million,
Or should I say one in a billion?
Willing to believe in the odds,
That each of us were born with a purpose from God,
To be unique and one of a kind,
One spinning fantasy built on a fallacy,
That we are all individuals,
When we’re really residuals of line,
Stretching longer and stronger as time passes by,
As depressing as it sounds,
I’ve hit the ground,
Slam.
Open my eyes shifting left and right filling,
With one in a million or should I say a billion?
Maybe she’s willing to deliver me from rock bottom,
Throw me a rope for all is forgotten,
I see a sliver of hope in your smile.
© Bub Bhat  Create an image from this poem.

In the Valley of Shadows

Amidst the Barbaric heathen hordes
Mordacious majesty’s scrofulous swords
Corroding cathedrals in the morning mist
Rampageous residuals that we must resist

In the valleys of darkness, my soul savors still
For the bloodstained moon begins her spill
The ruffled red rains down upon the tombstones
As the Kings and Queens sit upon their thrones

The lecherous Lords satisfyingly seduce
The mawkish women that are on the loose
Marauding minstrels that strangle the streets
In the valley of shadows where the darkness meets.



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Spiritualist -Signs of Souls

Spiritualist -Signs of Souls


Fragmenting eyes of sorrow of baneful tears that demons burrow
Stealing Cupids arrow and the elusive songs of the morning sparrow
Encroaching black mass revels jubilantly to break the mirror's glass
Within the barbarous brass lies dormant their venomous ghostly gas
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Dancing amidst rambunctious rituals flaunting their hadal habituals 
Illusions entrap the spirituals decapitating souls leaving no residuals
Satan’s lies are beastly born to rip your flesh with a torquing torn
Cathedrals crumble in his scorn with pandemonium’s yet to mourn
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Cadavers climaxing high as armies of darkness sedate the secular sky
The lost begin their cry upon ravaging ruins where their death does lie
Dormant dreams of deep thus awake within a wary wounding weep
Abortive ashes silently sweep over tombs where the Pharaohs sleep
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I walk in solitude above my gated grave a phantom who cannot crave
Thus abandoned within my cave where demons dine and will enslave
Evil does efficiently exist when God is put aside within heavens mist
Ask my heart that is in a twist for all the love that has been dismissed.



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Sept.26.2018
Ghosthunters and Spiritualists 
Sponsored by: Kevin Shaw


Placed 4'th

Laverne and Shirley

Laverne and Shirley
their fame in the main had come early
retiring at twenty
they had thought their residuals would have been plenty.

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