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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

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

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

Dance in the Fire – A Villanelle

Do not let your spirit be leveled flat,
your laughter should rise with the coming sun,
laugh, cry, and dance in the embers of life.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 27, 2020Posted inMetrical VerseTags:Iambic Pentameter, Metrical Verse, poem, poetry, Poetry about life, verseLeave a comment on Dance in the Fire – A Villanelle

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

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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