Short Incredulous Poems

Millions of Ukrainians without water, power or heat
     But his pronouns he didn't know

  Volodymyr beat a hasty retreat
     Hopeful he came; incredulous he would go...

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his appalling stupidity
never ceases to overwhelm
underwhelm in fact
truth be told
he's a buffoon
disguised as youth
I shake my head
incredulous
it's somehow
gotten him
this far
in life



Submitted December 28, 2017...

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he comes back
to the bloody scene
of his crime
to wipe off 
his fingerprints
only to
leave behind 
more 
evidence.



Date written: 12/21/2022...

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Oh incredulous one;
dilapidated are the wits
that polished the tongue with opinions
harvested by its compulsions,
held within impetuous views, and twisted truths...
Such a mind
never construes itself as an empty pit
by means of rejection......

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Oh, Incredulous One;
Dilapidated are the wits 
that polished the tongue with opinions, 
harvested by its compulsions, 
held within impetuous views, 
and twisted truths… 
Such a mind
never construes itself as an empty pit 
By means of rejection…...

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Muffled cry of inconsequence
My heart feels alone again
Cuff off, neglected
Why are you so far from caring?
Sucked into my soul of despair
So full of the slime of self loathing
Always incredulous of love
It’s so much easier to believe it was never there....

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The machine is crushing the man,
bit by bit, toes, shins, knee caps.
The machine is most efficiently
crushing the man, soul and body.
No time to even scream out,
the shock is too incredible.
The machine is crushing the man.
The man incredulous, is crushed....

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Bandit on the wing
Jujitsu this campbell's soup

Strangers with bags to boast
I'm tackling the street
With a coyote's beat
Ravenous in my wolves fleece

Bread to bone
Flaky people all going home
Incredulous 
Like my manner of rhyme 
Want to love
But there's a hornet's nest in my skin...

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Erik was incredulous.
He was twenty-eight, a neonate in the fashion world.
You are sure they said Nieman Marcus?
His wife smiled at him.
THE Nieman Marcus?
I guess so.
He was given free reign.
Youngest photographer to ever work for the Nieman Marcus.
Erik Madigan Heck, my friend....

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Consuming brain waves from plentiful touch
Exchange of sorrow, mirth, and incredulous dirges
Following the sign of the times
Discourse as it reeks from chest cavities
Angsting bloated bodies barrelled into walking murmur
You sleepy disease fungal fortunes run amiss
Runinous with divisive claims...

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When Darla got a paper cut she went ballistic.
Reacted the way others acted if their arm was gnawed off.
If someone bumped her she complained for years and years.
Every scrape, scratch, and poke was a huge deal.
When she came home with her nose pierced we were incredulous.
It’s a cat, said grandma. I am not surprised....

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Like every crazy
Love struck man in Korea
I too will break out of jail
And cut the limbs of the trees
That create a frightening shadow on your ceiling 

While you lie in bed
Unable to move or speak
As those profoundly ignorant beings
Incredulous as to how a human 
Could fall in love with a goat
Proceed to drag me away...

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The mole and the vole, went out for a stroll

For the moon was all shiny and bright.

Happily chatting, unaware of the flapping

As the incredulous owl now took flight.

Too late they saw the oncoming claw 

So enraptured they were by the moon,

The mole and the vole, poor little souls.

Their demise, it came all too soon....

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Eyeing its prey from its perch above
  it swoops in on its target
inserting its poison and darting away
  its imperiled victim blissfully unaware

Innocent, unsuspecting, incredulous
  that one creature would attack another
on this lovely exoplanet, AS796324xe
  as it/we hurtle irrevocably 
         ~ into the nether regions of nothingness...

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Stunned to submission 
impend repetition
which crawls out of bed
with a silent decision
and wakes every dream
with a knock on the head
to be dreamt yet again
at the end of the day
Red realization
incredulous notion
that all of these thoughts
are as vast as the ocean
a self contained vessel
afloat on the tide
as an unbeknownst
traveler, along for the ride....

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Households unhitch so readily.
We watch incredulous as they float off,
hulls creaking, 
rafters cracking like wind-lashed rigging.

Where we once believed roots gripped bedrock
now shiftless boards bob in the swell. 
Domesticity tumbles out.
Bed springs gape, 
a chest-of-drawers turns, inside out.

The everyday innards of a dwelling, face up,
barely floating:
a sure sign of those about to drown....

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That guy just whistled at me.
What guy?
That guy.
I stare at my friend, incredulous.
Why would he whistle at her?
I am the cute one.
So I drag her back there.
HEY!
The six workers pretend not to notice us.
HEY! YOU! THE FAT ONE!
They all glare at me.
“She’s talking to you,” one says to another.
They are all about the same level of fat.
They begin a huge argument about it.
I shrug.
Understanding better now....

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Everyone’s ideas are marvelous
for them
and maybe for thousands of others
but as for me
I have to go by my own ideas

Mine might be farfetched and semi- ridiculous,
but they come from my heart, my soul, and my confidence.
These three have never steered me wrong.

But they are incredulous!
Exactly!

They are outlandish!
I know.

There is a one in a million chance they will work.
I nod. “There is a chance then.”...

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Snowy domesticated boudoir in chaste thrills,
Tempts passionate skills in the silky soft frills,
Inspires pleasure in incredulous fire;
Seethes in fornicated quivers of desire;

Tamed vigor engulfs perpetrator with glee,
As ecstasy trembles and seduces thee,
Naive indulgence evoke unbound raptures,
Entrapped out bursts to tantalize captures:

It is her foray of crushed sensuality;
He conjures the delighted brutality....

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My vocabulary is scooting up like a weed
    in a as-fault jungle
  I mean, it's so incredulous how many
    unhackneyed words I've cognized

  lately... So I'm going to give me a standing ovulation
    and throw it up for me, mice elf, and aye ~
  my pronounces, jic* you haven't guessed yet ~
    Can I take my leaf now and do the splitsvilles? 



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  * 'jic' = just in case...

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I thought my poem sedulous,
instead it turned out nebulous,
all who read, incredulous,
merit at best tenuous.

Its origin endogenous,
meter, rhyme preposterous,
spurious, anomalous,
muse morosely arduous.

Striving for poetical,
its words turned out pathetical,
useless and nonsensical,
amusement for the skeptical.

Might someone who’s methodical,
and skilled lexicographical,
allay its monotonical?
Odds against are astronomical....

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Twists and turns plunge her in the stately beat,
Elbows on hips she taunts her body in heat,
Drooping curls cascade to her swirling session,
Tenderly she dances with stars in passion.

Purged moon reflects her magical elegance,
Low light plays with her smile in the naked romance,
Shoulder taut chides musical perfection,
Body language flaunting total seduction.  

Incredulous vibes of virtue in locked eyes;
She jingles pleasures my heart and I sigh....

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Santa built a little snowman, but it came alive.
It danced around and gave the woodland creatures five.
They cheered because they thought his magic came from Santa Claus.
Santa was incredulous, he had no idea about the magic cause.

Unbeknownst to Santa, Mrs. Claus was a Wiccan queen.
She had brought the snowman to life, giving him a sheen.
He was still consternated, bamboozled and curious about it.
She laughed at his confusion as he threw a Santa fit....

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nothing 
it means nothing 

wings spread 
eagle span 
to soar 
like lead 
crash and burn 

kick the tin can 
blue petrol spills 
ignition 
splutters 
coughs 
stutters 
into time's abyss 

dying with less a whimper 
only slapping 
forehead 
with wet fish 

stupidly incredulous 
the simpleton grows 
simpler still 

nothing 
it means nothing 
don't get it

try denial 
last resort 
it works on all 
that ails 

and all that ever fails...

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Boil, bubble, soil and stubble.
Slap. 
What did you do that for?
You were doing it wrong.

How do you do it?
Boil, bubble, toil and trouble.
I stare at her, incredulous.
Did it really matter?

Slap.
Why did you do that? I asked her.
I did not like the look you gave me, she said.
Boil bubble, soil and stubble, I said….

It was an hour later, and there was no slap.
The slapping hands were in the pot now 
with the rest of she-who-thought-she-knew-everything....

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