Dark Nonsense Poems

Trump Poems and Epigrams VI


Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.

May I offer you...

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Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In...

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We put things in the fridge,
To keep them very cold,
But some things in our fridge,
Are getting very old.

Like dear Uncle Ted,
By the loaf of bread,
He’s...

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In this mess, we called a country, the destroyers lived among 
Babangida once terrorized us with Khaki, failures affect all,
Ruled as a tyrant forgetting the...

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Giving gifts ~ required boxes are filled ...

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solemnly breathless in behemoth miasma
effect starts playing havoc with my asthma 
dropped in a world of despair, me as well
carrying dark in darkness - more...

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On a night made of black sequined velvet
Missing perhaps more sequins 
Than the years have managed to retain

The air smells of damp yellow leaves
Wisps of...

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Bats and snakes, make no mistakes 
                  ...

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Careless stepping 
over the sole 
onto the tongue 
taking foothold

tingling the leg crawl

bravery perhaps
unwise direction
the venomous creep
dreadful little faces
with large vengeance
fire-ants the masks
their own

next one’s...

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A shiver finning  slowly and meticulously through the currents of an empathic sea 
Wanton eyes peering and hungering because they're bloodthirsty

Yes

Clearly 

The thirst for...

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Tim was lonely as a child
Tranquil, timid and quite mild
He was considered as weird
But that wasn't what he feared.

He saw people that were dead
Monsters hid...

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I used to love 
The light from headlights
As they shone on my ceiling 
Once my light was out
The mystery 
Of those out 
After dark
And the...

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Pushing the liquid, pleasure deep
into electric veins n wires
feeling the rush of white light

burning out
all fading imagery
searing memories
all neurons fire 

transcending transforming
pushing beyond the cold...

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Bonny orchid, yesterday I longed to see your face 
It's radiance beamed out to me from some unspoken place
Outside on a cold, dark night
A million...

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Sometimes I forget my name
I was rocking back and forth in a fetal position, 
Sitting fully clothed in a dark bath half-filled with cold water
I...

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