Long Histrionics Poems

"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like a friendly tarantula.

that sad poet 
I read today,
she writes 
of...

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The Bachelor Spectacular
by Michael R. Burch

One heart? Tossed aside.
The other? A bride’s.
In all his great wisdom, the bachelor decides.

Eeenie, mean-ie, mine-y, mo’,
one gal must stay and one must go.
If she hollers? That’s the show!

No heart...

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"Ennui Sets In”

Whenever pen is placed
Between purloined phalanges,
When my mind unfolds and tears along the seams,
I know it’s time to move my thoughts,
Through the underground;
That dark crusty void
Of dreary dreams diminished,
Where loose hell raisers floss...

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Sweet Just the Way I Like It

you're a genius she moaned
there can only be so much money in circulation
he replied halfheartedly fingering her abacus
the moon arose sharp as a razor
and they set about creating a...

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Be a blessing to everyone
Inflict neither malice nor poisoned chalice on anyone
If you can heal and feel positive for someone 

If you should quit the kingdom of wretchedness
Departing from the abode of wickedness
And abandon cordons...

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**For Ruben O, My little Bro**

(This poem was written and a recording made for the contest sponsored by Team Poetrysoup which was deleted before it was judged.  I wonder if this would have received...

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we are created to reside in heaven

we are created to be new creatures

we are created for sainthood

it is our duty to strive to go back home


we are created men & women of God

we are created...

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Hallelujah, born again

chapels scheming, mankind reeling

 in holy water's baptism of wizardly elixir

  postulating an all consuming reverence,  

rejuvenated myths of deiform fears

 as reinvented nature flows in

    lickety split's...

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is just realty,
the only one we know,
at once, forever good and bad.
Yesterday, tomorrow don't exist
and expectation doesn't mean a thing.
You cannot find them anywhere,
and you are not alone.  In fact
I am afraid you too,...

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Never A Lonesome Dove

I'm so tired and so weary but never a lonesome dove
I've always tried to fit in where ever I visit there of,

On many unknown varsities I'll gloriously be only me
So very humble...

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At the distant verge of horizon
Slowly submerging is weary Sun
With reddened face
Bidding grudging adieus
To his day long drudging
Brooding over mandatory next come

I stood there staring at Him
I wanted to say “don’t depart”
In an automatic reflex
I...

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What are Concepts? Maybe, how I view the World?
What does it entail for me to grasp it?

Firstly, if I am able and smart enough - Book Knowledge:
By learning some Philosophy, a little bit of History
And...

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Emaciated test-tube mutations 
Raised apart in pristine distillations 
Conceived in dexedrine celebrations 
and the crazed, ecstatic inhalations 
of the professor’s choicest pheromones 

Right-angled, inverted, and star-spangled
Drained and dangled till their nerves were jangled
Nearly psychedelically strangled...

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A chokeslam! 
Goodnight sweet prince

Goodnight yawning hippo arse
With rice wine coming out your ears

Boom boom sticks 
A wisecracker talking head

Histrionics at the bandstand 
Eliminated by more than one can shake

Hospitalised due to a 
Finishing move...

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Sometimes extraordinary earthquakes radically rearrange the landscape
Sometimes continents collide, violently vying for the same space
Sometimes the savanna becomes a mountain range dividing two valleys

Sometimes your two best friends are a girl and a guy
she likes...

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Can a friendship be real if its ship floats on eggshells?
Do friends call out friends when doubt rubs on an issue
or silently pray each sting’s pain’s just mirage?
Love’s integrity arcs through skys’ clouds like a...

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Saturday, April 11, 2020 found me in a mess,
Fed up entirely with virus histrionics and hysteria.
With exaggeratitions, lies, it is enough to kill you

I was determined to not even come to the Soup!
Even here, is...

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Fourth of July

So I thought first of July was the US,s national day
I guess I was thinking of Trump and America first
histrionics and naively hopes the virus killing his nation,
will fade away like the morning...

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He is quite a talented actor who is considered better than good.
However, he has to have the dirtiest mouth in Hollywood.
Achieving great fame, his name is one everybody would know.
He has appeared in three big...

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Historical Histrionics

The past, alas, cannot be deleted
old scars camouflage denial’s guise
history’s mistakes are oft repeated
when reformation seeks a darker prize

erasure of memories, however bleak,
cloaked within the silence of hates roar 
drowning out of voices lest...

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Used to fear the dentist
   and most things electronic
The mere thought of eyedrops
   produced pleading and histrionics

Trying new things or making a speech
   standing before a class with nothing...

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