Fatalistic Poems

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage

...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...

unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
...
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Categories: fatalistic, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExpialidocious Love

...
Wonderful love dreams thrilled young Cali.
She sung of such with good friend, Sally.
Extraordinary and precocious,
her thoughts felt expialidocious.

Expialidocious were heart thumps.
Precoci...
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Categories: fatalistic, confidence, crush, cute love,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWhacky in a Whacked Outland

...Flim flam artists con like hackers 
From the digital underworld 
Scammers. Modern Thieves  
Taking advantage of not just 
Little ol’ ladies, but Me!
And the vulnerable gullible glue 
That holds...
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Categories: fatalistic, crazy, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse

Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish

...Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.

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Categories: fatalistic, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Giant

...Now I am quite realistic
Never ever fatalistic
Fantasy never tickled my fancy
So you can understand my surprise
From their daunting size
On the streets of New York
My air left me as if released...
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Categories: fatalistic, humor, surreal,
Form: Narrative


Premium MemberTime Displacement

...I’d like to reach into my pocket 
And use all those wasted times of past displacements 
Stored there for just this momentous occasion 
A fatalistic fantasy for immortality. . .  
For I know that ...
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Categories: fatalistic, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism

...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories: fatalistic, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse

I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome

...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories: fatalistic, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse

London

...They see it as aesthetically pleasing 
The interconnection of a cultural clash
Making diverse diasporas meet
Distinctive city made out of filthy cash
They see the blacktop streets absorb the spri...
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Categories: fatalistic, anxiety, beauty, childhood, city,
Form: Rhyme

Sympathy For Peace

...Zionist
for Israel, but
I don't invest,
in WAR...
I'm a pacifist...
For Arab 
as for any other people
being legalistic
without exclusivist predilection...
for peaceful solution
no arms race...
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Categories: fatalistic, extended metaphor, inspirational, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry

Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date

...Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous read...
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Categories: fatalistic, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Luanda 1974

...Luanda 1975

It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters)
was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed
to rape, murder and pillage.
The Portuguese army had dastardly...
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Categories: fatalistic, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse

Fatalistic Firework

...He shot me into the darkness for 
                                                                       hope while my opalescent                                                                     ...
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Categories: fatalistic, firework,
Form: Concrete

Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber

...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories: fatalistic, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Hope Is In God

...Midst myriad manifestations of last days’ signs, manifold
Yearning for the Saviour’s blessed coming is my hope; verily yes…

Hope* anchored by divine assurance, smiting helplessness
Offers sublim...
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Categories: fatalistic, blessing, christian, god, hope,
Form: Acrostic

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