Short Ulysses Poems

Shouts, Yells, Screams, Rants, Raves
Bullhorn-magnified Bombast
"Decapitate him!"
Why don't the police stop it?
What happened to enforcement?...

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An old biologist named Ulysses
  Had a job identifying species
    Ulysses was arse-backward
    His technique manufactured
  'Stead of faces, he examined feces...

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I've turned over a new leaf, going green
It's green or it's bust, nothing in between --
   Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson
   Ulysses Grant and Franklin --
But not Washington ~ that dollar has-been...

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I watched
the spider
fall
from the 
ceiling.

It tried
to climb
the wall

it fell.

It tried
again

it fell.

It tried

and fell
again -

and finally
it reached
the ceiling.

So strong
in will
to strive
to seek
to find
and not
to yield!...

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Herodotus climbs ladder of history
Every time he does it he falls off
But he does not break his back
And does not lose scrolls of Ulysses

As historian I too love ladder climbing
But do you know how many times,
Pericles has broken my neck?
And snatched my scrolls of history?...

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Mauve tigers roam
Assiduously down the riverbed.
Roland, my soul’s wanderer,
Is getting the itch again.
Jalousies creak from frames high on the watch towers. Even
Ulysses begged for mercy in the Un-
Abridged text. Though
No one has to know about my tiger.
Are you inclined to pet?...

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Mankind is a vicious creature,
senselessly slaughtering its own
flesh and blood.
The Devil,
upon his throne,
laughs and pours
his red wine.
Mother Earth, she does tremble,
from the raging war of Man,
and the violence of their guns.


*Inspired by Cream's "Tales of Brave Ulysses"...

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'Twas well-known that Gen'ral Grant liked his rum

   But he knew how to make an army hum

      Lincoln said that if he knew

         Where Ulysses got his brew

            For his slothful gen'rals he'd order some!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2014 All Rights Reserved...

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Her head tilted back towards the darkened clouds,

Mocha curls rests on shoulder blades,

Lids shut tight hiding emerald eyes shedding crystals,

Water rushed from the grey sky,

Shades of ulysses butterfly flooded over flesh,

The drops pierced her tender pores,

Seeping under her pale skin,

Merging with her spirit as one,

Then remained....

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Life ain't no serial streaming series
where the plucky gender-neutral heroes
defeat some XAnon false faced Ulysses.

Sigh, but it's not that way in the 'real' world
it’s a sum game which adds up the zeros
needles knitting with odd stitches unpurled.

While we play parts in bright shadow charades
leaders fiddle like modern day Neros
as the light of long-lost dreams slowly fades....

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Hugs
muster
strength to light
amongst brethren. 
Hope reflects as storm-water slowly drains.
With warm compassionate care and prayers 
raised fervor hands
to rebuild
broken 
Homes.





Nov. 19, 2020 3.45pm 



Hand salute to those who’re reaching out to our brethren who’re suffering from the aftermath of storms esp. storm Rolly and Ulysses. Thank you so much. God bless you in countless folds....

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Hey Poseidon! Ulysses yelled
At the great god of unlimited ocean
When will your furious blind anger end?
When will you stop throwing me
Aimlessly from island to island?

Do you see how your raging temper
Is building up my immortality?
I will live in song eternally
While you will be remembered
Only because of me

Let me go back to my little house
And grow old
Doing that little human job
That you couldn’t do
Even though you are a god...

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A hankerin’
an unscratched itch 
which one doesn’t wish to scratch for one
a need for heat and warmth
a turnstile dreamer ushers night to morn.

A what the hell
why not devil may care
for who else does?
The siren calls Ulysses to her gate.

Flower scents surmount
the desert dryness of aging heroines.
Lotharios play grinding tic tac and toes
searching for the golden fleece.

And neither Heaven nor Hell 
concerns themselves
with such mundane matters....

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