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What Talent We Once Had

Remember Lenon and his words,
how he sang so eloquently
‘that your still fucking peasants
as far as I can see,’

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJanuary 13, 2021Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:poetryLeave a comment on What Talent We Once Had

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

Two Truths

Oh, Khafre would you tell the truth?
Was it you who removed Anubis
from the rough paws that soothed the world

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Posted byThepoetryofjpNovember 20, 2020November 20, 2020Posted inEnigmas, Uncategorized PoetryTags:Egyptian, poetry, sphinxLeave a comment on Two Truths

Guidance Systems

Divisions unite us:
The righteous verses all
who dare to dream on false idol

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Posted byThepoetryofjpNovember 17, 2020Posted inUncategorized, Uncategorized PoetryTags:poetry, poetry about humanity, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Guidance Systems

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

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

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