Long Kraken Poems

1)The Awakening 

I know when fantasies became boundless,
it was the first time I sat on the pier;
Bellowing aqua swells rolled in endless
the ocean’s melody hung in my ear; 

Suddenly the size of a grain of...

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Trump Poems and Epigrams VI


Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.

May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger and deeper moats
as part of my sweet...

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Enktantas sat bolt upright,
in his hut near the temple walls,
he lived just below Olympus,
worked there beneath the mountain tall.

He worked to serve the oracles
who would augur the will of gods,
Enktantas was no holy man,
but paid...

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           In the depths of desolation where death 
is presiding in a smug kind of cocoon of parasite,
lies, a heart of calcified care, buried deep...

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"Dissection of the Ass Whooping"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Congratulations to you for winning the election
But when you campaign for this ass whooping, you hate the win section
My foot strikes cerebrals of people so they turn...

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Getting confused between the two
Wondering what they think about you
Who thinks you are trustworthy friend 
And who thinks that you will bring his friendship to an end  
Although you can’t say what they are...

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"Beyond lychgate lies future death" she says,
cucumbered eyes slid back under cauliflower sky,
brimming smithereens of harkening demons.

Been in saddle some time since torchlight began,
a child's silent castle ago. Chaos-times cut alleyways
through rose-lettered circles, reads trashy...

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There was a knight with locks that were golden 
Protecting a kingdom in threat of folding 
King and his trusting mighty duck 
Caring only for the almighty buck 
From the north 
Sharks were present for...

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Born to the sea


Mind of water, flowing thoughts;
The currents beneath your words could change us all.
River heart, born to the sea;
The solace we seek waves to you and to me.


Join me on this voyage, over...

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Crimson robed closed eyes
in the Holy See
	that don’t say

Upper chamber veiled deceit — 
A wizard wand wave
in the Sistine Chapel cache cave

Young boys’ virgin olive oil innocence
sacrificed on the sunken altar
			    ...

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McGee’s Tall Tale

I first saw McGee with his back facing me
sitting in the Pub with a pint
When Finn, asked him "Tell us a Tale"
So, he stood up and said "I just might"

His face looked grim,...

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To the ancient Norse he was Kraken
With a mean inclination,
And the Greeks called him Gorgon
With the same reputation.
But as monster of myths
He's been wrongly miscast,
So I'm here to shed new light
On this poor creature, at...

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Two Words – Redux One
 
Thumb
Finger

Hand
Foot

Toe
Toes

Blunder
Thunder

Seam
Beam

Stupidity
Contagious

Intelligence
Desired

Planets
Stars

Venus
Mars

Milky
Way

Iambic
Rhyme

Real
Divine

Curve
Time

Nose
Ears

Sticks
Styx

Bald
Hairy

Baloney
Piffle

Top
Bottom

Trump
Mussolini

Charlatan
Fascist

Sun
Mercury

Cosmic
Certitude

Mad
Man

She
Monster

Eyes
Flies

Turd
Bird

Money
Desire

Fruit
Empire

Pain
Pane

Brain
Drain

Red
Blue

Tie
Shoe

Gun 
Bullet

Fun
Bun

Wind
Rain

All
Same

Drugs
Thugs

Atwill
Actor

Lamarr
Actress

Snot
Plot

Rasputin
Putin

Monk
Dictator

Zombie
Walking

Run
Bum

Much
Talk

Franklin
Adams

Madison
Monroe

History
Record

Fake
News

Some
Say

Bale
Hay

Right
Way

Not
Today

Toe
Jam

Computer
Scam

Earthen
Dam

Heaven
Hell

Magic
Spell

Athena
Bubo

Perseus
Andromeda

Poseidon
Kraken

Action
Motion

Yes
No

Yup
Nope

Submarine
Scope

Bismarck
Battleship

Gloom
Doom

Titanic
Tomb

Job
Rob

Bank
Banc

Anne
Frank

Humpty
Dumpty

Big
Egg

Stand
Tall

Rick
Ugarte

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 22, 2018 (Short-Form Free Verse)...

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It was a quaint little shop
Looking strangely out of place
And the owner was a hermit
With a crinkled young old face.

He was a man of distinction
Of health hearty and hale,
Had looked a Haggis in the 
Eye...

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An abattoir, a hymn of scythes severing flesh, is sung mellifluously by a siren with onyx scales. Bubbles in the twilight abyssal depths, a symphonic orchestra of eels gavotte. Orbs watch at these pressures with...

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Sandals
On a golden sandy beach.
On a dusty dry footpath with warm air 
around your feet.

Music.
Spanish guitars play sounds so sweet.
The evening light is warm and friendly, 
the night sky blends into the ocean as 
the...

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It was a dark and stormy night, or so the story goes
Another of those wondrous tales to keep us on our toes
Like looking glass and wonderland, grim witches and their spells
Peter Pan and his lost...

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Yarns Of A Seafaress

Hemingway's famous "Old Man and the Sea"
Simply couldn't hold a candle to me
    I caught Ahab's great white whale
    Did some surfing on his tail
Made him...

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"Hold fast, don't let the lines slip",
The ropes tighten around the mast of the ship,
A salty Captain grasps the wooden helm,
Waves rip on the horizon, his realm,
Quartermaster yells "Storm heading northwest by west",
White knuckled the...

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Soon, O toil? Take, tamarisk?
Athlete, hurl disc!
Flickering fog in fine-kept frisk!
Blessings in the brisk!

Amiable heaven, hell:
What to do about?
Blood congeal and ichor gel!
Set fire to the spout!

Yes, indeed. And human need?
We don't share their greed?
Apostate,...

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In sunny days of joy we climbed aboard, 
Wide eyed, Wellingtons and Duffels.
Sat on salty varnished benches,
handed weighted feathers and orange string.

Kraken was the one to know,
Six fish on a line would show you so.
We...

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Falling leaves in autumn through the air sail
The chestnuts hit the ground like a thundering hail
The willows poplars and birches sing an old tale
Of a billows and seas and kraken giant whale

The sky is clear...

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Tis' a break
Tis' a break
There's nothing to scratch.

Ponder for a vendor,
Rice for a sake
And there's no Ale for a man.

Silence is broken and golden,
The trees are not in the mood,
To be wavy by the gale.

Bright...

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In front of the vestibule the dragon slumbers
Atop a skeletal heap of unfathomable numbers
Like the despair that guards my fatigued core
Surrounded by the ruin of all that I implore

Beside the parlor bearing my unadorned diadem
Broods...

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A fine August day to be a dragon, Blackberry thought
He was playing in the sun with his friends, the forget me knots
Nasty Blueberry dragon had been kind of mean to them,
So Blackberry Dragon showed he...

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