Long Mutineers Poems

That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,

especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
punch drunk cyber thieves ecstatic
acquiring by hook and/or crook
sought after precious, priceless, and proverbial data
after loosed ransomware...

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It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean air on the Bounty blew unkind
It was the troubled wind...

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Twas The Night Before Inspection...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
through out Highland Manor, 
     property carpeted in lush green
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
hilly quiet, October 10th, 
 ...

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STAR TREK REVIEW

Star Trek 2: Kirk has a grand battle with a villain from the original series.  Spock
dies saving the ship and his body is deposited on the Genesis Planet where an
experimental technology creates...

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Exracted from Gerald Nforche's Epic, The Slave's Tale


-Duala, RIOS DOS CAMEROES, 1787-

One fine morning, when love birds flew and sang 
And the valleys with every gaiety rang,
The sun just setting from a misty east
We had...

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Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
throughout Highland Manor, 
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
quiet and quite cool April 26th, 
deux thousand twenty one).

Vicious...

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A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is worthless as ignorance:  nothing comes from nothing,
The darkness from...

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She was a little tyke who had a curly mop top
in charge of her good ship called the Lollipop
her crew was made up of lollipop kids
all from the Land of Oz, not from the Land...

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i know these
sleepless nights 
would be 
easier
if i could only
wrap myself around you. 

if i could burrow 
into that precious cavity
underneath your ribs
that bleeds only for me
i know that my
frenetic mind
could settle,
if only for a...

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I Cannot Be Any Moar Pacific!

A welcome reprieve
     against blistering hazy,
     hot and humid
     meteorological suffocating air

found me voluntarily
    ...

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In the corner of a pub
There sits an old sea dog
He tells the same old stories
His mind is full of fog

“Ahoy, me hearties! Pass the rum
And I’ll spin you a yarn of old
About the time...

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Captain Bligh was his name,
he ruled his ship with an iron cane.
The Bounty was the ship,
sailing to Tahiti, via Cape Horn was the trip.
At Cape Horn, after tacking back and forth,
eastward, was set the course.
It...

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Disassociation
Gawaine Caldwater Ross

Some people dash through fire,
others plunge through ice.
Is Reality the only thing
when Chaos is the King?
Ring all your golden Christmas bells,
the sewer rats still dance:
Then the ice they buy and sell 
will wind...

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Fiery I canst me be a man of the 50 feet spacecraft, he ask is he or rampant bugger me skipper
Ask not oh mister jakin, weep not sir  Abercrombie here where does it go
I...

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The negotiation table

With sounds of Booms
Invading rooms
And the mounting fears
For the closest spears
The negotiation table
That could things make stable, 
Should step into the scene
And hands not yet blood-stained keep clean.

The four-legged furniture
For every peace-craving creature
Never...

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There once was a Vulcan named Spock
embarrassed when people would mock
his strange pointy ears
He would burst into tears...
until he had both of them cropped!

We all know a Captain named Kirk
It was well known that he...

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ONCE

The pinnacle of life  once   -
I was lucky, blessed with three magical figures.
Walks in the fields, finger clutched for surety,
Learned to love kites in the garden,
Dug tons of beach castle sand, ...

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Scapegoat Mutiny

The perspicuous statements by The Man, meant to flatter,
Were maximally inurbane. In hindsight could only alienate 
The dozens of individuals who now gravitate to retaliate.
    
     The...

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