Long Poach Poems

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Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones Kristallnacht

Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the Bible
references Armageddon and doomsday
impossible mission to remain
cool, collected and calm.

Whether affiliated with donkey or elephant
Democrat or Republican viz
blue war red respectively
political hot issues don't amount
to a (Sam) hill of beans
when Sword of Damocles count
approaches zero hour
as global tensions mount

signaling increased chance
trigger finger will free
avast nuclear winter
(across world wide web) re:
leasing plethora, pyrocumulus
mushroom clouds tree

mend us planetary explosions
annihilating webbed wide
world, an irrevocable
indeed earthlinked debacle
spelling widespread species
multitudinous extinction
ex post de facto after super
bowling powers (wannabe) vied

to wrest empowerment spanning
entire realm sans third rock
from the father, sun and holy ghost,
who turned substantial pock
kits of flora and fauna
once populating oblate spheroid ad hoc

significant swaths of life forms
pulverized and/or turned to ash
transformed into radioactive wasteland
after war mongers brash
lee usurped hegemony
(ruling inhabitants
of Gaia with an iron fist
with a smidgen of flavoring
courtesy of Missus Dash

superfluous taste enhancer,
when sibling burnt offering views
between Venus and Mars incendiary
tolled mourning news
smithereens sole remnant
poisoned every square inch
from weapon of mass destruction

that did cruise
engendering thick noxious fog
disabling fox but not cockroach
while smoldering seas and continents
skull and crossbones didst poach
amidst the gasified, liquified, pureed
where holographic ghoulish super bowl coach

rendering lifelessness home for menagerie
where virtue trounced vice as organisms
(particularly one primate) didst try
(predominant 21st century simians)
tool heave with amity, comity, and empathy
animals and plants an experiment
that went awry

presaging a nuclear winter with nary a winner
implicating mankind as the absolute sinner
instantaneously after Doomsday Clock
signaled point of no return
where grim reaper the sole grinner.
Form: Rhyme


Halloween Eyes

Elegant in burnt orange afterglow, 
sparkling starlight opens the show.
Neighbors and strangers appear all aroun’, 
porch lights and car lights enlighten the town.

They arrive afoot and atop handlebars.
Tots wave from strollers like famed movie stars.
Mothers bellowing orders to stay in sight, 
transgressors will rue being naughty tonight.

Flickering lights and untied laces
nudge fidgety feet through their paces. 
Masquerade masks make eager accomplices’
too impish eyes and mischievous faces.

Scowling Jack-O-Lanterns carved in creepy effigies
prove impotent charms to appease candied fantasies.
Festooned arches adorned in orange and black, 
ornate ornaments to win the neighborhood plaque.

Into the gauntlet of terror they swarm; 
dressed to play in pillaging uniform.
Tree and flower tremble and quiver; 
Bumped and trampled in their fervor.

Werewolves wailing through grimacing grins
herald a night of howling hymns.
Ghostly spirits from the bowels of earth, 
hang from gallows, grinning in ghoulish mirth.

Silken chains embracing all who stray, 
beckons the widow to her frightened prey.
Garnished by cackling cries of certain demise, 
steaming cauldrons poach their pitiful prize.

Spades of woe shadow souls who rashly ignore, 
ominous omens attached to windows and doors.
Like tocks from a clock they continue to arrive, 
will the morrow find anyone left still alive? 

Hostiles charitably looting town, 
sacks of booty slowing them down.
Toting bags of looted plunder, 
looming hordes scatter asunder.

Pass me by, to my neighbor grace his stage, 
assuage with him your gluttonous rage.
Rapacious hands swaying in ritual dance, 
exuberance untethered in blitzing advance.

Eyeing my castle the rioting rabble rush in, 
guarded only by growlin’ dog an’ smilin’ pumpkin.
Upon my stoop they brazenly climb, 
my breath on hold, I hear the chime.

My time I fear is near at hand, 
my blood or treasure they demand.
Hunkered down and hidden from sight, 
no mercy presented for my plight.

With sweaty palms and pounding heart, 
please Lord I pray, make them depart.
For a shot of strong “Spirits” I silently scream, 
‘cause I forgot the candy on this Halloween!
Form: Rhyme

Wild Goose Chase

Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,

sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evoke outer limits
of twilight zone

prompting me constantly questioning
purposefulness, qua hair raising pursuit
embarking these modern roman times
all for naught,
nonetheless I chide self

failing to heed
emotional, mental, psychological...fallout
in sum re: springing Jack in the box reflex
to sally forth and earn kudos,
asper potential Prince Valiant.

Thus situated with blank computer screen
capacious external Lenovo for myopia
(and incessant squiggly floaters to boat),
this literary glutton for punishment
feverishly fixates to plumb depths

measuring morin 10,000
leagues under the see
ming lee impossible mission
to ensnare nearly extinct
fluttering, lyfting, shutterflying...

smarts to outwit unsuspecting
beak henning quest
tendering, tasting uber victory
quivering crossbow
targeting yawping 

zoological discovery - channeling
primed with taut fletched arrow
on high alert for stool pigeon
cautiously optimistic kickstarting
another futile attempt dagnabbit
experiencing prestige,

oh...and by the way...,
no animal harmed
regarding made for video poem
gamely capturing quarry scotched,
nor gruesome scene

synonymous quasi abattoir
representative bird den sum
bloodless coup deeming
endeavor par excellence.

Fingers madly scramble
to poach skittering idea
fry day most ideal
omelette ya know,
aye feel yolked to defeatism,

one after another faux
promising brainstorm egging
quickly flitting inaccessible
potential flash in frying pan
just as fast dashing

into bajillion pieces
shell shocked scrivener
scribbling lame as duck
goose laying golden egg...
dropping immediately out of sight,

maybe best resigning forlorn
inchoate never albumen,
albeit quite linguistic stretch for
(all be human success story)
prospects beyond reach

ova this wretch
New York Times
bestseller author jinxed
forever dooming yours truly
grinding poverty my ill fate.

Wild Goose Chase

Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,

sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evoke outer limits
of twilight zone

prompting me constantly questioning
purposefulness, qua hair raising pursuit
embarking these modern roman times
all for naught,
nonetheless I chide self

failing to heed
emotional, mental, psychological...fallout
in sum re: springing Jack in the box reflex
to sally forth and earn kudos,
asper potential Prince Valiant.

Thus situated with blank computer screen
capacious external Lenovo for myopia
(and incessant squiggly floaters to boat),
this literary glutton for punishment
feverishly fixates to plumb depths

measuring mor'n 10,000
leagues under the see
ming lee impossible mission
to ensnare nearly extinct
fluttering, lyfting, shutterflying...

smarts to outwit unsuspecting
beak henning quest
tendering, tasting uber victory
quivering crossbow
targeting yawping 

zoological discovery - channeling
primed with taut fletched arrow
on high alert for stool pigeon
cautiously optimistic kickstarting
another futile attempt dagnabbit
experiencing prestige,

oh...and by the way...,
no animal harmed
regarding made for video poem
gamely capturing quarry scotched,
nor gruesome scene

synonymous quasi abattoir
representative bird den sum
bloodless coup deeming
endeavor par excellence.

Fingers madly scramble
to poach skittering idea
fry day most ideal
omelette ya know,
aye feel yolked to defeatism,

one after another faux
promising brainstorm egging
quickly flitting inaccessible
potential flash in frying pan
just as fast dashing

into bajillion pieces
shell shocked scrivener
scribbling lame as duck
goose laying golden egg...
dropping immediately out of sight,

maybe best resigning forlorn
inchoate never albumen,
albeit quite linguistic stretch for
(all be human success story)
prospects beyond reach

ova this wretch
New York Times
bestseller author jinxed
forever dooming yours truly
grinding poverty my ill fate.

Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror

blue war red hot political issues dont amount 
to a hill of beans 
   when Sword of Damocles  count
approaches zero hour 
   as global tensions mount

signaling increased chance 
   trigger finger will free
avast nuclear winter 
   (across world wide web) re:
leasing plethora pyrocumulus 
   mushroom clouds tree

mend us planetary explosions 
   annihilating webbed wide 
world, an irrevocable earthlinked debacle 
   spelling widespread species 
   multitudinous extinction 
   ex post de facto after super 
   bowling powers (wannabe) vied

to wrest empowerment spanning 
   entire realm sans third rock 
from the father, sun and holy ghost, 
   who turned substantial pock
kits of flora and fauna 
   once populating oblate spheroid ad hoc

significant swaths of life forms 
   pulverized and/or turned to ash 
transformed into radioactive wasteland 
   after war mongers brash
lee usurped hegemony 
   (ruling inhabitants 
   of Gaia with an iron fist
   with a smidgen of flavoring 
   courtesy of Missus Dash

superfluous taste enhancer, 
   when sibling burnt offering views
between Venus and Mars incendiary 
   tolled mourning news
smithereens sole remnant 
   poisoned every square inch 
   from weapon of mass destruction 
   that did cruise

engendering thick noxious fog 
   (disabling fox and roach)
while smoldering seas and continents 
   skull and crossbones didst poach
amidst the gasified, liquified, pureed 
   where holographic ghoulish super bowl coach

rendering lifelessness home for menagerie 
   where virtue trounced vice as organisms 
   (particularly one primate) didst try
(predominant 21st century simians)
   tool heave with amity, comity, and empathy 
   animals and plants an experiment 
   that went a wry

presaging a nuclear winter with nary a winner
implicating mankind as the absolute sinner
instantaneously after Doomsday Clock 
   signaled point of no return
   where grim reaper the sole grinner.
Form:


Premium Member Subterranean Homesick Blues - Archimedean Homesick Blues

This poem, which is loaded with math terms, is to be sung to the tune of Subterranean Homesick Blues.  What was I thinking?  

Johnny’s in the basement
Working on geometry
You’ll see my intent
A theorem in development
Presh is on the website 
Hit pause, scratch head
Trick problem, misled 
Try another approach instead
Look out kid
Better check it again
God knows man
Another paper in the trash can
You better try trigonometry 
Lookin’ for a new way 
The man with an isomorphic map 
and a toupee 
Wants eleven equations    
You only got ten 

Maggie writes chicken scratch
Paper full of cross hatch 
Says she wants to attach
You better detach
You can’t find the hypotenuse
Maggie says you gotta use 
Pythagoras or you lose
But the angle is obtuse 
Look out mate
This spheroid’s oblate 
Get on the rack
This nut won’t crack
Better get back from the ledge
With a compass and a straight edge
No primes, God knows,
Can decompose 
You don’t need Terrence Tao
Can’t square a circle nohow 

Add y, add x
See the roots are complex 
Closed loop, subgroup
You need to jump through another hoop
Let’s see, try three
Take five, relax
Eat snacks, do tax
If you should fail, take an ax
Look out bub
Surely you’ll flub
By blunders, errors
Five-choose-two-sers 
And logical abusers
Girl with a slide rule 
Lookin’ like an old fool
Don’t copy Euler 
Get yourself a lawyer

Ah add four, add five
It rhymes, it’s prime, then derive 
One two, buckle your shoe
It’s one-to-one and onto 
Square here, cube there, eggs poach
Twenty years of schoolin’
And you’re workin’ on a roach coach
Look here Jack
This nut still won’t crack
Break your hands accidental
Use a tail prehensile 
Be inferential
You’ll find it’s exponential 
You’re gonna have a fit 
You’ll never solve it 
Ken Chesebro says
‘Cause Mike Pence’ll take your pencil
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poetry and Me

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”
Rumi

Poetry, 
sometimes you can be cruel, 
manipulating me to express thoughts
which I've secretly suppressed. 
You poach pieces of my soul,
massacring my masculinity,
revealing my vulnerabilities -
you make me look like a fool. 

Have you become the definition of my silence?

Poetry,
your introduction intoxicated my muse, 
bursting drunken lyrics through my veins,
confusing my grammatical accuracy, 
acting like an angry alpha autocrat artist, 
assassinating my adverse alternative alliterations. 
My vocabulary is helpless against your stubbornness. 

Poetry, 
Sometimes I hate you, 
when you are erratic and brutal, 
bleeding unfairly against my will, 
causing pain through vicious verses, 
but, sometimes I love you, 
when you bring soothing serenity, 
flowing sweetly from my calming quill.

Poetry, 
You are a restless rebellious catharsis. 
I don't know if you are a blessing or a curse. 
My life is repression on repeat, 
I'm somewhat an expert, 
yet you create a pathway to open doors, 
creating a balance in an unstable world.

Poetry,
I remember when I forgot you.
In your unwritten absence,
my heart resembled a blank canvas,
but then you returned like a snowstorm in June,
reminding me of Rumi's beloved spirit.
Now you consume my mind,
my speech and my tone -
overtaking a tongue's desires to remain mute.

Poetry, 
I never cared for rhymes, 
until you found me at a time of soul searching,
blooming evergreen words to leave a legacy behind.

I was lost without you.
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.

Once Glad Tiding

Once Glad Tiding

We thought what he did was only experimental
But turns effects he had were monumental
On whole world and what it would experience
And regarding plan now is running interference.

Absolutely no one could do better than that
I even remember once when to go scat
What you had been doing really bothered me
Which was not the way for things to be.

He utterly, literally went into seclusion
And many people found this to be amusing
But he would wallow in work and continue on
Until all of his energy was spent and gone.

Relief from any problems is no longer in site
Until according to things heard the other night
A permanent power system had been put in
So all problems would never be back again.

He then trudged on because duty did call
And one day dressed himself up as a doll
Which we all thought to be quite *****
All of a sudden into dark night did disappear.

When we left and visited place much later
Close to shore we say another alligator
That you rind in Florida where they now remain
And we ended up having a horrible hurricane.

Both the hurricane and alligator had it out
Then about Brady they ended up with doubt
And Brady's twilight was about to near
When in Miami they discovered all of his gear.

Being such a rule breaker and even a poach
Who else would really want him as a couch
After that, he turned into a beach bum
Where he is the only one who was welcome.

When what he did had been over and done
And he ended up having to go on the run
Now all of his time he has been bidding
The once glad tiding disappeared into hiding.

Will he ever come back again is the question.

James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran and Poet
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Well, Here Is Another Nice Mess You Have Gotten Me Into

At last, Mr. J Bugman is now a retired Judge-man.

For many years he has punished many, spared few.

His verdicts never alter even if there is no hangman.

He had no rest, no serenity, working is all he knew.

 

Retiring, he sought peace by sleeping with content,

He has never slept; yes, he has but not in true sense,

Now, sleeping his first real sleep is his sole intent.

He is slave to none, lies on the bed of own manse.

 

Night was silent, his eyes dimmed with drowsiness,

Suddenly, there was a soft noise, then, it was louder.

Switching the lights on, he crept towards the mess

Of Newspapers on the base, something was there.  

 

It was neither a thief nor a beast, it is a cockroach

That has spoiled his much-awaited plan, he howls

With rage, he will not relax until he makes poach

Of that tiny rascal, He aims at it with books, bowls.

 

Pages of books fly, glassy dishes shatter into pieces,

But that swift creature is unharmed as if it’s charmed.

Bugman picks up his ever-faithful Stick, then, chases

And slays it with one blow, its death is now confirmed.

 

Next night, he makes sure that his sleep is undisturbed,

He has already sprayed repellants, a good night’s sleep

Is waiting for him, his eyelids shrank and eyes dimmed

But again a soft noise hurt his wakeful ears with a beep.

 

Disgusted, he left the bed an turned the lights on again

And found a rat that eating biscuits loudly that can undo

His sleep or already has. He sighed, “O God, O heaven!

Well, here is another nice mess you have gotten me into.”
© Osman Gani  Create an image from this poem.

Labor Day

It is Labor Day
I am paid not work
but what am I to do
the festive trimmings are not attached
so the perk is an useless quirk and
my boring schedule quickly fills in the gaps
as usual, my alarm sounds at 6am
the coffee maker perks at 6:15am
my rested body flings away the covers
I watch the Today show while shaving
fetch the newspaper, quickly scan the headlines
wait, I have more time my curiosity to prime
but the dog is on his normal morning schedule
so I speed to the door, his bladder to mollify
no fancy holiday breakfast awaits in the kitchen
so, on cue, I grab an egg, poach it, down some juice
my family sleeps on through the holiday mirage
my engine is in overdrive, but where to go
no parades, pageants append this vapid day
but there is no reason to stay at home either
no arriving relatives to amend the boredom
still, I have one day's free pay to spend
maybe, I'll take the car to the wash
nah, that is a weekend ritual
perhaps, I will canvas Pro Bass Shop
nah, the drive is longer than my work commute
OK, I will stay at home and be a utilitarian
I can finish trimming the bedroom shutters
but wait, I am out of that flossy white paint
and didn't my wife need the car for her
annual holiday shopping spree
I could re-mow the lawn to give it
a manicured look, but nah
to labor on Labor day is too oxymoronic
so I curl up in front of the TV
finish watching the Today show
contented with the lofty notion that
I am being paid to while away the day

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