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Category Archives: Short Poems

Lullaby

We are living in Orwell’s mind,
while Huxley sings his lullaby

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJanuary 9, 2021Posted inShort PoemsTags:poem, poetry, short poemLeave a comment on Lullaby

When All The World

From the doves that pepper the somber sky
to the slate that ashen’s the dappled day

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Posted byThepoetryofjpNovember 2, 2020Posted inShort PoemsTags:Depression, poetryLeave a comment on When All The World

You Have To Do More Than Dream

We have engaged in a silence
so profound, it approaches stupidity;

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Posted byThepoetryofjpNovember 2, 2020Posted inShort PoemsTags:poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on You Have To Do More Than Dream

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

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

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

O’ Liberty – An Acrostic Poem

Liberty’s wields her sword
in most imperceptible ways,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 28, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inMetrical Verse, Short PoemsTags:acrostic poem, arcrostic poetry, poem, poetry, short poem, short poetryLeave a comment on O’ Liberty – An Acrostic Poem

To Be Human

To destroy is to be human,
we’d sell the sun to buy a candle;

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 26, 2020Posted inMetrical Verse, Short PoemsTags:Iambic Tertrameter, Metrical Verse, poem, poems, poetry, verseLeave a comment on To Be Human

The Swoosh

The Reaper’s cloak swooshes across the road.
A feeling of doom sweeps over my bones,
I hear the sound of sharpening up in my throat,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 26, 2020July 26, 2020Posted inShort Poems, Uncategorized PoetryTags:free verse, poem, poetry, Poetry on loss, poetry on lost love, verseLeave a comment on The Swoosh

Backlash of Tongues – Poem

The re-inspection
of words, that were his, or his,
is often entombed
in the backlash

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 21, 2020Posted inPoems about life, Short PoemsTags:free verse, poem, poetry, verseLeave a comment on Backlash of Tongues – Poem

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