Long Incommunicado Poems

Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch

“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.

“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.

“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...

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Wordsmith's Veneration...

Methinks, I post literary endeavors inxs
but tis with blood, sweat and tears
in case ye did not guess,
who struggles to craft reasonable rhyme
ideally read by a pleasing poetess.

Aye willy nilly understate (trying to)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with...

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There has always been an inter-outer over-under tender balance of loveless socio-equations as they super fit the psychosocial sexe-endices in this modern garner of pluses/minuses/bytes and scribbles mostly incommunicado inexperience and parental impreciseness as to,...

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After papa succumbed
to congestive heart failure
October 7th, 2020 yours truly
neglected fulfilling promised score.

I did shirk maintaining bond
with youngest sister
who when a boy especially fond
regarding said sibling
whereat myself and and Shari Todd
played cat and mouse
chasing each...

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Wordsmith's Veneration...

Aye willy nilly understate (trying 2)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with "FAKE" trumpeting
spellbinding, rambling, quivering...
intoxicating, hallucinating, gyrating,
stop to take a breather...

English Language vocabulary, a
fascination, intoxication, provocation...
upon me ocular, neurological, mental...
faculties of this nattering nabob
from outer limits of...

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INTELLECTUAL DESPERADO

Dear desperado,
Knowledge awaits you tomorrow,
If you painstakingly throw 
And expedite yourself like an arrow.
Though your foresight looks narrow,

Don't leave your mind incommunicado 
Or famished cos at seashore is where ships row.
Ignorance makes devious innuendo,
rising in...

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Alacrity bespeaks entangled, entombed,
     and entrapped Thai soccer team
diminishing strength barely allows,
     but a whispered scream,

which rescue against all odds
     (plucked out cavernous...

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We have an assortment of clocks collected over the years.
Some chime melodically, others are odious to the ears!
Some rest on mantels, others hang upon the walls,
Each emitting their dings, bongs or ear-splitting squalls!

One squawks John...

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spectators!  we march! 
advance upon the blind 
with your cultured eyes
and tone torpedo tongue
rage on molars hail delirium
he's smelling the blood of puppets
ventricles be defiant 
the neon carnivals have electrocuted themselves
it's time to eat...

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WONDER IF HEAVEN'S GOT A GHETTO
 
Wonder if Heaven's got a ghetto,
Where sinners & saints mellow,
And unite with shinning hallow.
The street glows golden yellow
As we pray more grease to our elbow.
Wonder if Heaven's got a...

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Ambushed by gunmen on a highway in Ocotlán.
Threatened outside a mine site in San José del Golfo.
Shot dead by motorcycle gunmen while driving in Camotán.
Forced from their camp by mine trade unionists in La Sierrita.
Fired...

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Incoherent Rain
October 4, 2013 at 7:54am

Ask me why there is no one left
I will tell you what
came afer the storm.
it was forever calm
 
because there was no-one left
Wind stopped blowing
fires stopped burning
Sunami stooped sunami-ing
 
Fish...

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These Are Mountains 

Trying, failing, 
     second best, 

In front, behind, 
     betwixt, beyond

The also-rans 
     and hard pressed, 

Are destinations 
 ...

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I am obliged to climb up 
olympus, the only way to 
reach you. I know not much 
about you and your progress 
in life. By the time I left for the 
space trip, you were...

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Petulant pouts and reluctant shrugs,
Smirk of nose, slight of eyes glint,
Made the communication impasse,
She was expectant somewhere under,
That I will smoothen pouts and make her more than shrug,
Straighten her nose and set her eyes normal...

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On the days I seem less humble,
Should I stumble into greatness
Or I drown in human vomit
By the light of critic’s benchmark.
Let me give self-love a tumble,
Never welcoming false witness,
Think man’s praise, my fault a summit,
Oceans’...

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salient arguments
whirlwind across the floor
rugs of rolling hills
closets filled yet more
the ones we never speak of
portraits fleering
infinite mirrored reflections
walls of respective distances
dogs chasing their tales
mad electrons seeking rest
grabbing at foreign orbits

i turn to her
i have...

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The most mischievous of culprits,
A tough veil over its secrets;
Devilishly keeps patrolling incognito
For the unilateral contracts it enters into.

The Eternally Incommunicado;
But easily us reaching without ado,
No signature endorsing after a collection;
Merchandise shipping to abysmal direction,
The...

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We got trapped for seven hours 
We couldn’t un-trap ourselves
From the dungeon of the road
Couldn’t call or receive calls
Was indeed incommunicado 
Sim card got stuck 
Would we ever get to our destination?

She got fed up,...

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Long ago, folks knew their neighbors
The community was one large family
There is much talk about one world,
But It’s impossible to find sincere unity.

True, the world has become a lot smaller
Distant lands are no longer far...

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There are such days I’d love to hide
I’d feel indubitably justified
Locking all doors to stay inside

In total silence were I able to decide
I’d sit and write now that’s implied
I’d let the ideas sizzle and collide

There...

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