Long High octane Poems

AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”

(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)

Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mellow electric dream sound as the
Santa Monica Pier exudes...

Read More

Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a...

Read More

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.
Anne Rice

From the deepest recesses of the crowded hall
Came a thunderous applause that shook the walls
An artist par excellence was on stage...

Read More

Messiah’s portent
His advent, descent, ascent
Returns to cement

Apostates conspire
To douse the prophet's hellfire
But reap God's backfire

Curse your weighted scale
Your oppression leaves a trail
God's scale will prevail

Salvation has highs
Persecutions brutalize
Faith to exercise

Human worth erodes
Divine judgment at crossroads
Man's...

Read More

It’s a highway nightmare, or it should be,
but no one’s afraid (too much)
and the road just thunders and hummmms
on and on and on and on
under that greedy summer sun.

All of their guns are cocked and...

Read More

Homemade dungeons spirit up through governmental finance. An alone home to the flight risk, trial sick, authoritative kind. So much time now spent hitting the rewind to come upon the never wanted find inside the...

Read More

Stuck on a hybrid labyrinth race track in undue course

Crash helmet cracked under the raw tempo of stagnation

Chequered flags waving but a motor running against the clock

In reverse and the traffic prohibits pit stops for...

Read More

When they draped the flag on your coffin mate 
I was dumb, dead with it-
they ought to at least give you one last chance 
to dance the dance of life-

you were the grass growing and...

Read More

It felt so good, like we were movie stars 
You were with me, my friends, in my suped-up car

Through the village street at such high-octane speed
Tyres screech, car screams, girls see.

Bump the kerb, skid through...

Read More

The end of everything

The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner
sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years he had been
the master of the ship, a friendship between the animate
and the inanimate...

Read More

This is a donation for the wicked to hold up a milestone of the dethroned. The tin soldier has fully appeared with a raw full state that many will never get to relate. This is...

Read More

The Merchant seafarers` war

When world war two started Norway was
neutral but unsure which side to stay on.
The English thought occupying Norway 
but they were too late the German army had
done the occupation.
The British sent a...

Read More

In the rural green field far away from city cacophony
the lure of sonic extravaganza rose from the virgin soil,
reaching far and wide across the urban pop culture
with the tantalizing tunes of grass root country music.

In...

Read More

I'M AGAINST BEING AGAINST

Gasoline isn't only for engines anymore
it is versatile and effective
gas now provokes images impossible to ignore
and especially provocative for a detective

first you take a bottle and fill it with gas
it doesn't have...

Read More

If I could just have more time!

There is never enough hours in the day!

Going here and going there.

No time for a breath of fresh air!

If I could reinvent the clock I would do things differently.

I...

Read More

There's another virus going around.

Flustered by everything COVID-19;
I am grateful I still have a job,
but grumpy I have to drive there in the rain -
I need to get to the fast lane or I'll be...

Read More

We claim to love
but foolish pride swallows apologies
wrecks reconciliation and forgoes forgiveness
rendering sweetness bitter
it is an emotional hoarder
an insatiable sin
incessantly collecting resentment
commoditizing the priceless
bankrupting unity and burning optimism to ashes
it is an assassin’s bullet shattering...

Read More

On the way out the door by morning
Keys still in the lock for strangers
Stop at the bank for a cash transaction
Empty is the account which has no funds       ...

Read More

Magic

The kind that stretches
The fabric of who you are
And in a blinding instant
Makes you more than you were
Somewhere deep inside
We all know the trembling thrill
Oh, not sleight of hand or
Exquisite stage illusions
Not smoke and mirror...

Read More

Stars, 
what can you say about them
- not a lot.
The slightest bit of cloud cover
and they’re gone.

Butterflies…
folks got a lot of things to say 
about butterflies
 - not me though
(bug splat on a rainbow),
the whole...

Read More

Have you noticed what has been happening these days?
Those oil companies are perpetuating their ways.
The prices at the pumps continue to rise.
They go up each time I blink my eyes.
No matter what you buy, low...

Read More

You look wrecked, are you feeling OK, 
Was all of that more than you thought?
Was all of that harder than it was meant to be, 
Leaving you all distraught,

Here, sit down, drink this water, 
Let...

Read More

Springing with a boom zooming through the crowds,
Short rhythmic bursts of churning rage,
High octane rating strong gripping treads;
A two-wheel wonder of our sophisticated age.

Hard ridden machine crushing with pain,
Passing scenes with speeding cars,
Illusions veiled in...

Read More

I am neither
good nor bad
I flirt with the devil
and dance with angels
high octane is my adrenaline...
labels just don't stick to me.

I am neither
selective nor indiscriminate
I am a willing accomplice
with mischievous imps
and frolic with the likes...

Read More

Race up and down life's highway
No stopping to pay any toll
Just livin' it up in the fast lane
Spiraling out of control

Don't hit the breaks keep moving
Take it as far as you can go
Might need a...

Read More