Long Epilog Poems

Playing Batman and Robin is a lot different

When the Riddler is your Stepfather

And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile

When your secret mission is to keep him

From bringing heroin and pornography

To Gotham city

 

Your mother wanted to...

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Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view 
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience 
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...

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That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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She was eighteen
Graduation Day
Valedictorian
The Girl got Straight A’s
Mother says, 'I’m proud of you.
Your hard work is gonna pay.
I know it's been a long road
But you've carried your load."
The girl looks over her shoulders
And scans through...

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NOTE: Just had to bring ol' Barry T. back. As you may remember, he's deffo not a Poe fan, what with his classic poem The Raven portraying ravendom as nothing but a bunch of dimwits...

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Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning


Letters motionless in disarray fighting lost battles lonely at heart

Starved...

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An expedition back into the dark jungle,
a rain forest shrouded in the haze of history,
brought about by hidden enterprises.

Lost and Found

Mandy

Battle weary am I, war warn.
To shreds has my heart been, torn.
From my middle Daughter,...

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Just Do Not Be



Waves of sadness overflow my heart
I tumble, no care at all for a new start
Buried under autumn leaves
I hug the soil, knowing deeper so much the sweeter to be

I hear a voice...

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Mists show vaporous idiosyncrasies
    emotionless crying
      over the essence of the dull sky,
         same as a gentle walking unsophisticated...

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First Whisper
As we embraced on our first date
you whispered softly in my ear
those gentle words that did endear,
and led me to exhilarate.
Into my ear your words rang true,
“I think that I could fall for you.”

Second...

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Sparring with demons, and dragons and deadheads
It bobs and weaves like a drunken sailor.
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
I'm quite attached to it - joined at the psyche.

Image of an incubus twirling as I do.
Patron Saint of...

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EPILOG TO
RECONNAISSANCE PATROL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Survived again, back to CP, a successful patrol
Brought back some intel, lost nary a soul
Exhausted, safe, suddenly my hands are shaking
Continued patrols is madness in the making
Fear enemy patrols, running into...

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EPILOG TO VIC’S PLACE
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I’m an alcoholic and no one seems to care
My woman enables me due to her own despair
If she really loved me, she would take up the fight
To keep me from...

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EPILOG
			     to
		ISLAND HOPPING
			     By

		JOHN M. ARRIBAS 
	



I’ll meet my old fellow travelers soon, any day
They may not recognize me now that I’m aged and gray
They are still...

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