Long Retinal Poems
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Ins and Outs Part 3
Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 3
our subject awoke
while still dark everywhere
dark with agony
an amputee's life...
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Categories:
retinal, how i feel, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
What a Spectacle
he took the paintball on one sunken cheek
it hurt to be lopsided but the anger subsided
the umpire declared the shot out of bounds
...
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Categories:
retinal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Imp-Ulse Attraction
The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers: Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the TV
Have no bewitching faith in your bad dreams,
especially the one...
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Categories:
retinal, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a
poetic practical pompous, pro (p) ransomedramatical postenses
pretending to prose promise a
predictive premise primatory practicum...
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Categories:
retinal, august, confusion, culture, inspirational, internet, introspection, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Twenty Twenty Vision
Jacques Daviel
A brilliant eye specialist Jaques Daviel,
does his cataract field at all ring a bell?
the word cataract used with utmost respect,
on his vision and foresight I duly reflect
Francisus Donders
In the same branch was Francisus Donders,
in...
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Categories:
retinal, blessing, care, caregiving, character, devotion, graduate, health,
Form:
Clerihew
Endless Cruel Laughter
Sgt. Bedlam of heavy artillery reporting sir
Bedlam I want you to pick the runt of the litter
and turn him into an agent assassin
with the clandestine power of hypnotism
yes Generalissimo I am here to obey
decked...
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Categories:
retinal, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Bobby Bandwidth In Dogs Humping Act 2
both sides use conscience for a hook
it's a con artist's suitcase
fill your cup in the Ocean of Tears
there's enough of everything in there
toasters glowing blenders humming
dogs humping on lawns across the land
in a cloying oppressive...
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Categories:
retinal, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
'the Wakening World
The Wakening World
A new world spins kaleidoscopic, a whorl of color in revolt.
Oceans quake, molding into fissures of tectonic hunger,
ravaging the deep, stirring the primal need depressing
populations unseen to the denizens of land, left in...
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Categories:
retinal, devotion, education, hope, mystery,
Form:
Sestina
The Wakening
The world spins kaleidoscopic, a whorl of color in revolt.
Oceans quake malleable, molding into fissures of tectonic hunger,
ravaging the deep, stirring the primal need depressing
populations’ unseen to the denizens of land, disregarded in man’s wake.
From...
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Categories:
retinal, allegory, childhood, computer-internet, history, hope, inspirational, life
Form:
Sestina
Velociraptor Victims
Here are the French Connection facts,
Monsieurs and Madames
No need for reverse English translation,
Ladies and Gentlemen
Step carefully ...
You’re now at the yellow tape border of
a Jurassic Park murder scene investigation
Here’s robo Rico “Bio-Class II”...
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Categories:
retinal, allegory, imagery, urban, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Chase the Wind
As I chase the wind;
the rain begins;
as the sun shines on my face;
and I have no space;
Got nowhere to hide, nowhere to run;
Must stand, must take hold of his hands;
for in his hands he hold...
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Categories:
retinal, anger, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, celebration, change, christian,
Form:
Ballad
The Invisible Army
It was August 1st,
Army Day in China—
when I was escorted through concrete arteries
deep beneath the pulse of the city.
No cameras. No phones.
Just retinal scans, encrypted codes,
and a silence that pressed
like gravity.
They called it:
Project Wraith.
Rows of...
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Categories:
retinal, anniversary, conflict, science, science fiction, war,
Form:
Free verse
In 1oo Years
IN 1OO YEARS
In 100 years
We're be self-flying ourselves
In self driven small aircrafts
you laugh, you jest...
In 100 years
We'll be of one worship no need for..
added extra church demonations
you gasp, you jest...
In 100 years won't be any...
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Categories:
retinal, anxiety, appreciation, future,
Form:
Free verse
Vertigo Eyes
Standing at the precipice of hope,
these retinal denials
gazed into the misty, crystal waterfall
I had no secure peer of rappelling rope
tied to a waste modesty lifestyle
Unsure of the plunge into the pulsing roar of the call...
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Categories:
retinal, allusion, emotions, joy, love,
Form:
Romanticism
Adrift In Severed Agony
That disheartening obsession
is detached from reality
Another retinal wink message
blinks SOS pillow bleak
Drifting off to sleep,
void dreams of awakened passion
falls into an impotent abyss
The empty anesthesia bottle,
caressed by a pained heaving chest,
has swallowed all of yesterday’s...
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Categories:
retinal, love hurts, metaphor, pain, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall
President Reagan's dulcet tones breathed fire and brimstone
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall," demanded he, histrionically
When the wall did us all a favor, complying, falling of its own accord
Thirty years removed, the once impenetrable barrier...
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Categories:
retinal, anniversary, conflict, courage, history,
Form:
Pantoum
Hiding In a Mirror
Sometimes you can hide yourself in a mirror
Not everything’s revealed within its glimmer
What you see is only your outer reflection
You’re only looking at lights reverse deflection
Your eye’s look forward but only see back
It’s truly an...
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Categories:
retinal, character, identity, image,
Form:
Free verse
Divided We Stand
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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Categories:
retinal, america, life, people, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Retinal Lethal
Killer jeans ...
sidewalk recombinant retinal lethal
Hazardous faded denim optics
Mahogany bombshell —
moving target drop-dead beautiful
Double helix ...
T-virus (Tantalizing) traffic stop double take
Gazelle graceful mitotic movement
cause pedestrian pause,
magnetic gawk gyroscopic directional
DNA dynamite...
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Categories:
retinal, imagery, love, science fiction, senses, words,
Form:
Romanticism
Loyal Circuitry Plea
Mister Thought Police,
my twin electrodes agree
with your Mind Kontrol policy
It’s a laboratory disgrace,
that the free speech troublemakers
get to protest this way
Such a predestined malfunction fiber optic outrage
Ms. Chief of the Microchip Morality Division,
your prompt commands
are...
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Categories:
retinal, dark, future, psychological, science, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Drip, Drop
Drip
Drop
Water drop cascades under sapphire afterglow
Undoing 4 month deprivations
Muffled moans surround crimson fireplace
Crackling of fire
Thrusts of skin
Retinal vibrations shutter her pilot light deep within
She ascended to blue moon heights
As embers of his inferno
Bow in collective...
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Categories:
retinal, fantasy, longing, senses, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
The Same
You used to look at me.
You glanced upon my ripened, caramel skin
With palpitated affirmations
Of your smile
Love
Friendship
Inebriated
Your titanium pupils
Illuminating across Merlot filled chalices
Another umbrella drop
Another hungry thrust
Unto solemn choruses
Another choir of sonatas
Filling our bells
Turning the tides
Against...
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Categories:
retinal, friendship, journey, judgement, life,
Form:
Free verse
Retinal Bleeding Moments
From what is available for reading ...
One can improve blood supply to the eyes....
A diabetic friend recently suffered retina bleeding...
Eyes nourishing supplements would probably aggravate the bleeding..
Now as I'm but merely a quack doctor,...
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Categories:
retinal, community, crazy, emotions, friend, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Colour Banquet
twist of the wrist,
jingle of glass bangles,
a play of light,
kaleidoscope of colours!
patterns of bright reflections,
each different from another,
and never ever the same!
a garden of flowers,
a forest of autumnal trees,
orchard of oranges,
a basket of apples,
pouting...
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Categories:
retinal, art, bird, color, earth day, fish, fruit,
Form:
Free verse
Selective Blindness
Blinded to all of the desirable flaws
within pillow reach
Shallow beauty of uneven temperament
rises and falls
with the tide of X-ray attraction
Ultraviolet thoughts in visible range,
scan the scarred marks
on an arrhythmic, telltale heart
Tender touch select a...
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Categories:
retinal, allusion, desire, longing, sensual,
Form:
Free verse