Long Aspirants Poems

Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...

after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman has taken
campaigning to a whole new level of low.

Beyond...

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Jack and his friends, impressed by personalities
wanted to get there and enjoy name and fame
They stood gaping at their accolades and victories
And made gross assumptions about what it took to succeed
They tried to attempt the...

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I
There are two ways of being in this world,
the eagle and the serpent, sometimes called:
while one seeks boundless heaven, wings unfurled,
the other through low dirt has always crawled,
and seeks to crush or poison.  Naked,...

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Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

The earliest recollection with 
lower gastrointestinal eruptions,
viz psychosomatic induced distress
occurred when yours truly
quite a young lad, which specialist
invited me to ingest barium sulfate,
whereby the pinkish chalk like solution
traced a path...

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Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

Rear lee if ever suffices as an apt poetic title
amidst bookish canon - while
this writer (similar to other aspirants
in their respective creative pursuits)
aware arbitrary perusers may deem vile

core body of...

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The Standing One
Hidden away
But still at bay
Just as the clouds hide the Sun

He is the one chosen to rise
Fight with no compromise
Set fire to the city of evil
And set free the masses, the people

The Standing...

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IF ever I had a country : XXXIII - XXXIV

				XXXIII

IF ever I had a country
And if ever by hook or by crook I were the Secretary of HEW and Culture
I'd make it compulsory for any...

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PERCHANCE, pure ignorance led me to thine fate, 
this insensitive cast of shadowed ills, 
master of melancholy, 
captain of misery,
pukes wormed to,
fester my sole.

WROUGHT, I to thine chambered bed of tear-filled filth,
thy soulless disposition of...

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Curtain Time
           by Odin Roark


The warnings
The preparation
The moment

Such expectancy
Be it plebeian
Or royal instinct
Openings' glitter
Brings incessant challenges
Making hoary one's existence

So functions the undertow
The inward monitor
Yours
Mine
Those backstage
Probity...

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Future The Great


Bouncing and dancing future welcomes all
Growth of its rapidly epidemic cause
Aspirants of future conceive happy blind
Doers in present are kings of valentine

The hope of pleasure is a case of future
Always stands in the...

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I saw some politicians and sponsor
And I craved to the scene censor:
Not good to look at like cancer,
Unless dead one’s from-birth sensor
Or one buffoon like TV Spencer…
The sponsor would the stuff bank roll
But should like...

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Jane the eldest of three sisters, and the Tadpole was given an earlier debut. Hails the middle sister of extraordinary charm and endearinng demeanor that exemplifies an industry--I find lacking.

This be the common thread of...

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