Vitriolic Poems

Gather up stones

...O youth of my land, gather up stones,  
Not for the mob, nor for bloodied thrones.  
But to build a revolt, one fierce and true,  
For the chains of complacency tighten on you.  

You scroll thr...

Life is like Reality TV

...

Hyperbole hubris

Venal penal

Avarice abyss

Bucolic tonic?

Ironic…sardonic

Or

Vitriolic bliss mate!

Mendacious salacious

Algorithm schism

Audacious outrageous

Vicario...

Something Fishy

...
No wish to carp or cock a snook
I won't leave you in the lurch
but oh my cod take a look
what a plaice to perch
as just for the halibut
putting seahorses out to paddock
is enough to g...

Shadows of the Valley

...O' moment 
of mist-glazed melancholia ~
I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes
of shrivelling sunsets, 
amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~ 
in swollen skulls of selfless swan-orchids,...

No More In Chain

...

The naïve life possessed by the power of desire, 
turns into an inanimate object, utterly inert. 
The buoyant being, unsuspecting and unblemished,  
if captured by the vicious clutch of cunnin...

Kiss the Ring

...‘Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.’ – Molly Ivins

don’t believe the many bots
dripping fermented honey
extolling the clown’s virtues
Gaz...

I feel in fuhrer rated and envious

...I feel in führer rated and envious...

entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then...

America at a critical political crossroads

...America at a critical political crossroads...,

nevertheless hope springs eternal,
especially after listening
to Vice President Kamala Harris
and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
speak at the The Li...

Dark Underbelly

...
Daystar rises scattering shadows to the four winds, terrifying sinful serpents who slither beneath rock masses for cover. Vapid, vampiric vipers hide themselves in caves in fear of the light, for t...

of shuttered minds and darkened hearts

...What foul wind has blown them shut
Let shadowed fingers seize a heart
Silence the drumming beat of truth
Closed the doors betwixt age and youth

How has the acrid stench of doubt
Cauterized onc...

The Flavor of Soup

...
watered down soup has lost its flavor ~ the broth is not one to savor

it's over peppered and there's too much garlic ~ sometimes vitriolic

nothing wrong with a little pinch of salt ~ but d...

What Am I?

...It is a Flame so brilliant I dare not grow close
But still, I fear it may Burn me
So I Smother it. I throw upon it layers of hatred, isolation, vitriolic disgust. I Curse its name to anyone who wil...

February 29th, 2024

...February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around ...

Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive

...Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive

A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and ...

A Choice

...What twisted pleasure do you derive
From crushing others’ precious dreams?
Why would you feel so much more alive
Only if you hear a dream’s dying screams?
Find your own aspiration, your own goal....

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