Long Irradiated Poems

Abuse, of any kind, is unacceptable no matter what “good” comes from it.

Abusive, you
Lyrically expendable

You set my heart ablaze
At the peak of your animosity

Your apologies lingered amongst the masses
Sharing your ovarian milestones
Within your visceral declarations

Descending...

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I just need to be satisfied and full of cheer
But, I am complaining up in here…
I fear I’m getting crazy over you…
Dude, you be netflixin’ and chillin’ too…
My heart, soul and mind is full of...

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from Juniper’s Daughter:                      
War Is Obsolete – Futility and Hope
By Nick Armbrister


Caught Up In...

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Alternately titled: Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

While inside me noggin legions
of monstrous demons abhor
protest being force fed
arcane and obscure
assaying into religious dogma
hence mind chatter goes full bore
thus crafting poem quite a difficult chore,
one...

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We heard from the Cape, that orders have been given
For we must retaliate, our enemies to be driven

To be circling the earth on this fateful day
No contact with our loved ones, as the atoms below...

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Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

Ransacking treasure trove 
of maximum headroom.

To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming 
forty seventh president
or contracting one
of several viral diseases named pox
permeate heavy shut tight...

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I was born in the year 2423,
gestated in an artificial womb successfully
I drank the nutri-milk
from the dangling nubs on the synthetic tendril teat
I ate the petri-flesh
from the germ-free, sterile laboratory grown meat
My mother and father...

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Re: Thank You to unknown 
   tom, dick, harry, tam, dame, 
   or dana from the MHS Class of 77, 
   though this alum
experiences public education 
  ...

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A sigh escapes still, immune to overt silence, unabashed...justified
Another teardrop enters the infinite pool of resilience, uplifting...reinforcing
   Another hand empathizes--
          touching, impulsively putting one's...

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Get Out Of My Head Mister Chatterbox!

Upon prima facie first blush
me mind's eye all atwitter,
sans long forgotten
"FAKE" sexual exploits
set mum (chrysos anthem) all aglitter,

boot like short order cook I hapt tubby
quickly realized trumpeting collusion,
a near...

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We are happy about the music,
a Mozart serenade that is not too dangerously deep.
Somewhere in the night
angels are falling off their nightmares,
black horse escaping on an ebbing tide.

Mozart is a skinny youth, his pink bubble...

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Written: February 23, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France 

Quote: “ We journey not to escape existence, but to ensure existence does not escape us.”  By Poet

     ...

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I was drawn to her,
Like a western sunset
draws out the desert life
Her eyes, deep crystallized pools
of reflected whirlwinded emotions
I crave the feel of her skin,
soft and smooth as silk
I yearn for her lips-
tantalizing in their...

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As the Dime Store sirens flared
bolts of irradiated invite,
my query was denied.
     Their pimp-striped pilots only moaned, 
     their lust fueled by encapsulated 
   ...

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Inspired by a tremendously bold & powerful track, “Who we are” by Machinehead

Once upon a misery call
Deception broke bread with diabetic circumstances
Sugar
Coating
Half-assed smiles

Phantoms of a listless fortitude
Haunting today’s unfulfilled promise

As they wear silken layered Khakis
With...

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I wonder why,
Several hundred years ago,
The Yorktown Brits
Played a drinking tune for surrender.
Maybe they thought they were drunk?
Maybe they thought they’d be drunk
The second they got home?
Whatever, nevermind history.
We’ll just loop the tape,
Play it back...

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We didn't go abroad this year, we had our summer holiday
Here in the UK where it had rained all summer long.
We scuba dived in the sea but it was dead, devoid of all
Life; we walked...

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Hot zones of danger,
dark places
where dense hearts go
Hearts that are cold as ice
Roll the dice ... 
take a chance on fatal corona exploration
Go ghetto orbital
and gamble with your porcelain life
You’ve been whitely warned:
Shun the spots...

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The wandering clouds, over the Japanese sky
With mirth and joy passing by
Unknown of the upcoming crisis
laugh of folks in merry bliss
The birds chirping, blessing good
never was it prominent and never it would

Soon the clouds turned...

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What hides beneath the busting red-tide waves, what wains?

Have you seen the Fat-white, would-be Samurai that lives 'round these parts?

To him you see, the
warrior code is the word of the fiery gods, and he
follows it...

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UNDERSTATEMENT

language
 confirms
the
 familiar
 even a weakness
angst
  melodrama
wonder

the
significant
  reciprocated
precisely


a
 modern echo
momentarily
a
slight
  foretaste
 vibrant
elegant
 twirling
 surreally
&colourfully
rendered

an avatar
of
estrangement
in an
unmistakable
 panoply
of
glowing
visages
 eyeballing
sallow
 isolation &
 unsettling
 existence

animated
 swirling
fathoms
of
fantasy
irradiated
  with
innocence
exuding
the
will-o’-the-wisp
influence
expressly
 apparent

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the...

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Nutjob
The church bells rang out in Eastern Ukraine. Up and down the land. In towns and cities, in hamlets and villages. Putin's tanks and guns crossed the border at numerous points. The war was on!...

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Having failed yet another repair, on the leaking rods
I spit my liquified bowels all over the walls
Retching up toxic filth within 
an expectoration of black lumpy phlegm
forms a pebbledash of grotesque sin
Some I recognize, some...

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Most of who I am is water
carbon, iron, and calcium,
traces then, of this and that,
atoms quarks, and protons, named, or not.
Known in part to my MD
as a chemical community
of powdered parts and puddles be...
me; ...

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Who defended Jews from Nazis in WW2
     A few brave souls here and there
   Foul-smelling smoke from crematoria arose
     The masses turned aside, held their...

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