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Both Sides

They came, they saw,
and they conquered;
we stayed and witnessed,
and they abused us.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpOctober 23, 2020Posted inShort PoemsTags:poetryLeave a comment on Both Sides

We

Since first we rose from ocean’s active mud,
since fins became the bending of legs,
since legs hadn’t yet the strength,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpOctober 23, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:Science Poetry, space explorationLeave a comment on We

I See a Darkness

I will not be remembered,
not in the history classes
or in the breath
that fogs rose colored glasses
when widows weep at dawn.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpOctober 22, 2020Posted inShort PoemsTags:poetry, Societal Collapse poemsLeave a comment on I See a Darkness

Dad’s Shadow

On workdays he’d get up,
worn as the mattress’s springs,
and put on his dad face.
I’d sometimes see him through the cracks

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 4, 2020August 4, 2020Posted inPoems about lifeTags:poem, Poem about dad, Poem on life, poems, Poems about life, poetry, Poetry about life, working poem, working poemsLeave a comment on Dad’s Shadow

A Carpenter’s Tools

How many year ago
did the carpenters tools
become useless
to understand the world?

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 3, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poems, poetry, poetry about humanity, verseLeave a comment on A Carpenter’s Tools

Blacker Than Black

Reading the newspaper:
It said, new material blacker

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 2, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inShort PoemsTags:dark poetry, humanity poem, poem, poetry, poetry about evil, poetry about humanity, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Blacker Than Black

Habitual Bipedalism and Episodal Humanism

Ever since the first grass blades gathered
beneath the feet of wandering birch trees
those little leafs have made us leap and flee;
our hips an Eocene launch toward hazards,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 2, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inMetrical Verse, Science PoetryTags:Iambic Pentameter, poem, poems, Poetic Meter, Rhyme, Rhyming poetry, SonnetLeave a comment on Habitual Bipedalism and Episodal Humanism

The Bluebird and the Apocalypse

There is an apocalypse in my chest,
and there is a bluebird beating its wings.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 1, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poems, Poems about life, poetry, Societal Collapse poems, verseLeave a comment on The Bluebird and the Apocalypse

O’, Do Not Speak of the Soul

Not in leaflets or amid the marching
of nuclear niore to be found,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 31, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inEnigmasTags:assonance, free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, the soul, verseLeave a comment on O’, Do Not Speak of the Soul

The Cynical Ones

We are the cynical age of man
we are the mouth of ridicule,
whispering alone,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 28, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inPoems about life, Societal Collapse poemsTags:poems, Poems about life, poetry, Poetry about life, sadness poem, Societal Collapse poems, suffering poemLeave a comment on The Cynical Ones

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