Long Retinal Poems

I'm the roving reporter on the move again
(despite having a cold I had to take the children to gymnastics and because I'm disorganised I'm crossing several lanes of traffic on foot whilst they are in...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"Shawl" - comes from the Persian word "šal," meaning a piece of fabric worn around the shoulders or head.

A Brief History of Being Worn "Shawl"

Materially I wished to capture daydreams 
Protect thoughts from inclemency 
The...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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