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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

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

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

Endless Weight

I have gone out into the snow,
braving the winter’s fiery cold,
and searched for rabbit high and low
when frosty mitts refused to hold.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 28, 2020Posted inEveryday Things, Nature Poems, Poems about lifeTags:Metrical Verse, poem, poems, poetry, Rhyming poetry, verseLeave a comment on Endless Weight

To The Scientific Minded

We adapt and flex as rubber,
because, for us searchers, wonder
finds answers that aren’t writ in stone,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 27, 2020August 2, 2020Posted inScience PoetryTags:poem, poems, poetry, Science Poetry, Trochaic, verseLeave a comment on To The Scientific Minded

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

Telescope Eyes

Often I think that people are distant
and only look close when viewed from a far;
Each star its own among the crowded streets
and lonely bars; each a beacon that peers

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 26, 2020July 26, 2020Posted inPoems about life, Science PoetryTags:Metaphor, poems, verseLeave a comment on Telescope Eyes

On Flaming Ships in Darkness

On flaming ships in darkness,
the pitch-black of inflating blindness grows boundless on every-side,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 21, 2020Posted inScience PoetryTags:poem, poems, poetry, Science PoetryLeave a comment on On Flaming Ships in Darkness

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