Long Database Poems

"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...

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Wordplay Beats Ban Adverse

In 2184 the thought-police declared war
On embellishment, feeling and emotion in literature and articles in any form.
Succinct 'plain English' was the name of their game.
Google's Knowledge Graph spewed out the answers to...

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previously they said that was
and what were they doing?
we got here and opened 
could we go any faster someone seemed to
and there was a reply before the question

so low and so far from
you were me...

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I am the authority on any question you may ask 
But be prepared, because I know I've already completed that task 
You ask me which pet is better, a dog or a cat 
Read my...

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Planting seeds of life - growing self awareness...
(Subtitled: kudos beloved Amelie Beth)

Dilly gents gal lore spellbinding
metaphorically exhuming, ferreting, gleaning...
insightful handy dandy blues clues
unearthing treasure trove motherlode,
(and father lode) eye opening discover re:
visa vis our family...

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Beethoven to roll over,
     dee composing
     (sans my zany brainy adherence
     to "FAKE" information I eschew)
and essentially single handedly grew
the contemporary paradigm few
off...

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Eleven nineteen, nine met to be we.
Intentions meant right, but the left did see,
The Nine did meet and they met... to Be.
Juliet you can bet in the Julian sea.
Juliet you can bet, is a poet...

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’Tis a strange matter yet a familiar breeze, 
The passing glance and a heart’s appease, 
And two lonely hearts silently un-crease, 
Both see tomorrow with flavorful increase, 
  
O! How uncertainty makes them squeeze,...

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Poetry is almost on the exit tense
We forgotten how poetry should make one feel or brush the emotions to sleep or facing  our fears by using words only

The words we use now are mostly misused...

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as things speed up 
at an ever faster clip
they're ready to interrupt
my mind's day nondescript
to mark my thoughts - every tiny blip

and keep them cross-indexed
in a clouded database
kept in the current context
never to be erased
their...

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1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

[Ye wives, be...

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Someone un-cuff me now 
Yes, you officer 
I already swore I never knew her
At least I thought she said she was 21 
Please believe me it was all in good fun 
But he’s promising me...

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congratulations to the governments &
the private enterprises
who seek to spy & reap the benefits of those who
offer themselves up to you on a silver platter called
facebook---
it must have been hard(er) back in the day
to get...

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MY SOMEDAY PC

Someday when I’ll lose all my fading imagination
I’ll ask my PC to bring from the clipboard a poem for me.
It’ll inscribe a sonnet on the splendor of the rising sun
in programmed words formatting...

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Actual title below, but I guess this database isn't ()-friendly

(Love)

I remember when I was thirteen,
And I met this girl Nicole,
And I thought I was in love.
My buddies asked me how did I know,
I replied,
She's such...

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And so the sheep will flock, and the wolves will be watching. 
And with time nothing will escape those strong jaws and sharp teeth. 
Lured are the sheep by pastures green. Eat for free as...

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iFactory Reset
Written by Brett Somers
On 4-13-16

 {Thank you for calling iFactory Reset}
{Name?}
Brett
{Device Type?}
Human
{IMEI code?}
xxx-xx-xx34
{What is it you’re calling for?}
Memory's faded
Processor’s jaded
Bios clock is ticking too fast
Program glitches 
From a complicated past
Life files beyond defrag
Inputs too...

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AN UNKNOWN KING

I dug deeper down into the dirt and dust; until the skeleton beneath I found
He was still wrapped in oilcloth and slightly lopsided on his head was a crown

A sword and shield carefully...

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Night’s over, the day has come, yet sleeping is the sun
one heart waits for another which is on the run.

Planned to be voracious to make the event a good eat
the impatient acidic mind sees nothing...

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Click, click mouse! 
Chitchat, nice!
Mouths shut tide hearts speak their minds
Congestion on the information superhighway
It’s a hard drive for my megabytes to 
Entre
To feed my cybertronic ego 
The fuel for my search engine
Entre
Update recent status,...

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Should'a Read The Fine Print


I am intrigued by all computer tasks,
and competent and skilled in every scheme
from word process and graphic arts design,
to spreadsheets, database and all between.

But, I became too confident last week
when I...

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I cry between the lines, A.I. verse this will never be.
I defy the artificial assembler of words to impersonate, 
to predict this in living color.
Absent from its language database is the driving arousal,
the hormonal passions...

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I’m coming from a place where darkness and blues, 

Echoes like shoes,

I’m coming from a understanding that the truth sometimes is like a pattern, 

No tighter then suit and tied,

I invited you to cleansers and...

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If I were in the market for
Another spouse, I would
Check out the database of specs
To make a choice that’s good.

My top criterion is that
I want my spouse to last.
A long time he should be with...

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The Pillager

When checking my medicine jars, my wife called me an old Pillager
“No, that's a Danish Viking,” I said: “ I am a Polypharmacyphileger.”

That's a person who takes five or more drugs a day
Over the...

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