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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.
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Premium Member Love Is Like .....

LOVE IS LIKE.........................

Love is like a pair of shoes!
Easy to abuse, or tossed in the trash when over used.

Love is like fire,
soon you'll get burn, or the flames will just simply turn off!

Love is like a car,
always finding ways to get it fixed, or searching for a better one!

Love is like a calendar,
changing days, weeks in 12 months, with resolutions never accomplished!

Love is like dirty laundry, you put it to the side!

Love is like a song, winds up all kinds of emotion before it ends!

Love is like a teacher, never appreciated!

Love is like dirt, easy to step on, or sweep away!

Love is like make up, easy to remove with tears!

Love is like a battery, draining all it's juice till it runs out!

Love is like a model, full of $h*t!

Love is like a Doctor, dumping hurting news with a cost!

Love is like a remote control, to many buttons to push!

Love is like the universe, confusing without knowing what's out there!

Love is like power, to hard to handle!

Love is like a fart, it really stinks!

Love is like a coloring book, scribbling pages to get it over with!

Love is like a flower, that will die eventually!

Love is like an egg, one way, or another it has to break or rot!

Love is like a shadow, it only happens with light!

Love is like a roach, waiting to get crushed!

Love is like a unicorn, does it even exist!

Love is like a heart beat, easy to stop!


By; p.d.
**********(LMFAO)*************** 
I think I had to much fun demoting love.
...........Instead Of promoting (LOL)........

Love is like wow! if you really must know!

Premium Member Further Family Stories Recited

BLOTTED OUT
He loved,but could not say
such words,he could not find;
He loved,but could not touch
such warmth,was just too much;
He was proud,but could not praise
such sounds he could not raise;
He supported,but not with words
such feelings,witheld unheard;
Sentiment,tight reined close within
banished, unvoiced by him,
embittered by his own hurt,
a scarred child 'neath his hairshirt.
In that distant past,crippled emotions lay
imprisoned,unsaid,'til his dying day.

 BUCKINGAM LACE
Sussanah
                great grandma
          times three
 a pillow puffed
         up on her knee
with daughter
   in cobbled Cowfair
       daily shaped 
their 
homespun ware

 Within such humble 
         women dwelt 
a rare 
      & dextrous art
fashioned out
stitch by 
        stitch
pillowed  patterns so rich
  tinkling bobbins 
 bewildering skill
    inch by inch grew 
the intricate 
              frill
Twisting threads
      in pairs & groups
knitted
   together 
       as interlocking loops
a  town craft
                 then
 of world renown 
plain or old point 
   hand made  lace
lost foever
       with  no longer 
a trace

COWFAIR TO ANCHORAGE
We left our abode in old Cowfair,haggled
a price for an old shire mare.Onto the 
landlord's canal boat,lock stock and barrel
for a life afloat.Farewell to our Buckingham
birthplace ,a meagre living from old point 
lace.Dawdled up to Cosgrove,  meals around 
a blackened stove.This  moveable house 
painted castle and rose, a life we would not
have chose.Eighteen fifties harsh and mean,
cargo of coal, nothing stayed clean.Doff your
cap,touch your forelock at the gatekeeper's lock.
Food scarce except for or fish,perch , roach a 
staple dish.Clothes drying  on a line,home for a time 
whilst the toddlers were young.As  numbers increased 
and grew ,places to sleep, all too few.Family life
became impossibly hard ,so back again to a 
tied cottage in Aylesbury's Anchorage yard.

Listen to me read these poems at youtube under the name ichthys
Form: Bio

If I were to,

Lock ruby ridden doors for roach ridden floors bleed without grace 
Roused rounded wounds throughout nightly escapes
And gaping fields of endless escapades
And gaping seas my moses blade has wrenched to dictate.

Pace rotting church floors, so I merry-may await god to knock upon my door alike a loving mother
His guilty spires to sing and relapse my sorrows
Eviscerate rusted razors to lacerate a clean slate.

And in the roar of rain and reign of vines 
That pin and pay homage to this chime of final time
To frou-frou odes oozing scarlet against saccharine skin
And touch and go chortles chilling curve brow'd kin
To Cupid bow'd lips agape with cherry tipped spit
Ribbed'n red ribbons t'reach 'round rust ridden gates to 6ft city scapes
Lay'n low below poppy pinned limbs
Lifeless Carcasses drowning in ailed acrid hailing wails,
Limestone limbs aground with grave grown pests, quilled acid arms armed with bitten black mitts
Askewed pinching pincers ripp'd the petty sinner's wings, now
Falling as fallen fallacies face fickle teenage fantasies
Falling as to fall affronted towards
Mother-made dishonor doused among sickly star shine,
Clutching contorted flesh wrung of blackened regret 
hung 'pon the sinful spine of east borne wind where the church resides.

Mine spires spindle star swept sereneties
To cloth mine carcass 
From candid claws, in a rust ridden razor haze
O' Lacerate and Eviscerate this crass phase.

Perhaps if I were to,
Rebate the mirror that faces the sinner's face,
Would I face the same fate?

3//8//2025

A Life Changed

Working 5am to12 midnight
everyday, minimum breaks
Missing important details
Daughter crying out
Yet too tired to notice
A life changed
No family gatherings
Working 5 am to 12 midnight
Catching the bus in sketchy neighborhoods
Son needs shoes
Sister needs stability
Missing important details
A life changed
Daughter arrested, but protected because she brought home
3 am a life changed
Too tired to really give it any energy
Evicted!
Working 5 am to 12 midnight
meant nothing to a society always in "gotta get it done"
Roach motel, scary but peaceful new neighbors
A life changed
No longer working, replaced and dismissed
A life changed
Brand new beginning 
Hope on the horizon
April 8th,2024 Eclipse
Emergency Room
immediate surgery
A life Altered
Children displaced
Sister, lost confused and scared
Lives changed
No family, No support
Confused, damaged, suffering
Not special because this happens everyday
Yes, your story is unique to you, but it happens everyday
Lives Shattered
Hope seems completely out of reach
Rebuild while tattered
A new day is dawning
Cancer stage 4 
Lives in the balance with a thumb on the scale
Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy
Mastectomy
A life disfigured
Unsure, terrified new beauty
No friends, No lover
A life Alone
It happens you're not special
A life unknown


Autumnal Days

Grey clouds dispersing above the Lough,
Grey geese skeining to winter fields for from arctic chill,
Rainbow colours reflected in water still and deep,
Chill and cold in the depths along with bream and Roach,
Amongst the weed and silt lie Pike waiting patiently,
For some small unassuming stickleback or baggie
To fill its ever hungry belly.

Arching rainbow across the hills leading to a pot,
But the gold is in the town and its deep cold lough.
Do Kelpies run off the hills finding refuge and rest,
Down the burns they skelter  unseen ,unknown,
Only by frothy white water bubble and hear their ,
Unearthly whinnie amongst the crannies of ancient hill.
On dark nights when water is high will you hear the Kelpies cry.

Premium Member Remember To Smile Pretty

if an atomic bomb is dropped, the cockroaches will survive.
we might not make it, but they will. They always have.
during the ice age, during the pandemics, during Armageddon.
they have the inside track on how to outlive everyone.

roach motels will take on a new meeting
you will have roach designers, roach engineers, roach undertakers
no one will scream "ooh!" when they see a roach
roaches will become the mayor, governor and president

if you are the only person who survives, enjoy the cockroaches.
your doctor, dentist, pharmacist and teachers will be of this species.
they will push you under a microscope to figure out how you survived.
remember not to squirm and smile pretty.

Premium Member Hip Hop to Bop To Soulful Pop

From Hip-Hop to bop, we ride the jazz tide, swing till you drop/underground Monk playin' some funk/Max Roach coaching the field, drums in the playbook/ Brother Jack McDuff runnin' for a touch down in the open filed/Superman and Jimmy Smith, the dynamic duo’s look flyin' high/Abstract truths on the wall, Warhol’s silver glow/Basquiat’s brush storms the gallery floor/Miles, out of the kool, breakin’ every rule/a trumpet thunderbolt/ stereo vinyl playin'/ Sonny Rollins vibes in the club, cookin’ up fresh notes/church bells ring in  his horn/ Man, a river of quotes/The Jazz Messengers mark the milestones in the mist/Miles all the way live, his Sketches of Spain we can’t resist/ HiFi prayers/ Jazz time/ Peace and love for all mankind/Blue Mitchell in the barroom a mural on the wall/Man, it’s all right, baby, hear the crowd ignite/Wynton Kelly’s trio is  out of sight like way gone/From street corners to jazz low down rooms, the groove is our creed/a lineage of legends planted in every reed/Spoken in breath, in rhyme, in rhythm’s Sly Stones art/a saga of swing that lives on, heart to jaged heart/ The soulful vibes keeps use alive
© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.

Ode To a Tench:Fishing

Come here you little Tinca
Come here towards my net
Come here you little Tinca 
You're a new PB I bet.

Ive fed you worms and maggots
Caught Roach and Bream its true
But as nice as it is to catch them
I came here to try and catch you.

My rod is near bent double
The line it sings with stretch
You pull towards the Lillies
To snap me off I bet?

So come here you great big Tinca
Don't drag me in the Reeds
My heart it wont stop pounding
Your weight I'm sure exceeds
The target that I set for you
Visions flashing through my mind.
13 pound 7 ounce female specimen 
Please pass it oh be so kind.

Come here you Massive Tinca
My rods begun to creak 
My arms are oh so tired
They ache and feel so weak

Come here you enormous Tinca 
My net is now not far
Oh damn where is my camera
Aarrgh I left it in the Car!

Come here you behemoth Monster!
I cant see you in this dark
The Net it slides beneath you!
Ohhh Damn its a flippin CARP! 

Hehh Hehh

Written and composed by Mark Longson (c) 2018
Form: Verse

Premium Member Geno's Roaches

On youth's restless green puff.
I rode a southbound Greyhound bus
Everything I owned stuffed into one duffel bag.
Forty-eight hours plus on Highway X.

I arrived in darkness and settled for the first dive I could find.
One dingy room with peeling pink walls.
With a large painting of a red heart against black.
I assumed somebody pretending to be Peter Max.

The next night-I popped into "Geno's bar", to watch a football game.
There was a handful of locals-nobody spoke.
I bellied up at the end of the bar
From my angle, I saw hordes of cock roaches racing over hot dogs.
I was young and beyond hungry but settled for the vending machine.

Somebody would order; Geno would reach for a hot dog, 
I think the roaches were trained because they'd promptly jump off.
By the time the dogs reached the bar top
They were sizzling, juicy, roach-free, and red hot.

Old Geno shakily handed them their roach dogs.  
I was the newest guy on the block 
and didn't want to bug bomb his loyal patrons.
I guessed that the infestation was our dirty little secret, 
Geno winked and handed me a free beer before halftime,
I thanked him and guzzled the warm brew down.
I got up to leave as the game was a blowout. 
I said so long to Geno and his roaches and promptly blew town.

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