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Hero

He’s nobody’s hero,
the man that wakes at dawn,
the bagger that packs bags
’till swole with groceries.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 2021Posted inPoems About Death, Poems about lifeTags:poem, Poetry about life, short poem, short poetryLeave a comment on Hero

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

Build Back Better

Do not believe bankers, princes,
or governments; for all their wealth,
glittering gold, and grasping at control,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpDecember 21, 2020Posted inRevolutionary PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Societal Collapse poemsLeave a comment on Build Back Better

Please Don’t Send Flowers

He passed away today—or was it days ago,I have not the strength to tell.Anymore, the rose’s petal’s saywhat my words could never:don’t send me more flowers—please don’t affix a card to the lilies,because I have relived his deathwith each wilting lilyand cried more often then a rose in molt.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpDecember 1, 2020Posted inPoems About DeathTags:poem, poetry about deathLeave a comment on Please Don’t Send Flowers

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

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

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

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