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Tag Archives: Freeverse

Tolerance

We are now so tolerant,
so willing, that intelligent people
are unable to speak freely

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 16, 2021August 16, 2021Posted inSocietal Collapse poemsTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poems, poetry, Societal Collapse poems, toleranceLeave a comment on Tolerance

I sink

You won’t write me down in books
or read my words with a rose
colored gloss over, or toss paint
as white as I on picket fences

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 15, 2021Posted inRevolutionary PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetryLeave a comment on I sink

America’s Suffering

I see beggars suffering silently
uncounted out in the streets,
these old rags slumped over plead
but only each to each

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 14, 2021Posted inSocietal Collapse poemsTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Societal Collapse poemsLeave a comment on America’s Suffering

For Some

For some
razor wire fences ascend
as phoenixes from the ashes
of division;

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 11, 2021August 11, 2021Posted inRevolutionary Poetry, Societal Collapse poemsTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Societal Collapse poemsLeave a comment on For Some

Today’s Wounds

Even as newborns
we are defeated
by our very own nerves

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 10, 2021August 10, 2021Posted inPoems about lifeTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Today’s Wounds

Apples

If I gaze at an apple
and smoke with a shaman
who plucks with bended knee
the apple red of famous mythology

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 8, 2021August 8, 2021Posted inMythology Poetry, UncategorizedTags:Freeverse, poem, poetryLeave a comment on Apples

Relatively Big

They are very small things, the small plankton,
The atoms of oxygen, the words said

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 6, 2021August 6, 2021Posted inUncategorizedTags:free verse, Freeverse, poetryLeave a comment on Relatively Big

The Word and the Blade

I have owned words,
owned them all,
owned them as a suit–
impenetrable.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 6, 2021August 6, 2021Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Poetry about life3 Comments on The Word and the Blade

A Pharaoh’s Rise – Revise #1

Among the world’s most pressing ruins
artifacts come rising as phoenixes
parting their form from the fierce driven wind
and sand that whirls around in its dying
hour of enjambment with earth and sky.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 4, 2021Posted inSocietal Collapse poems, Uncategorized PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poems, poetryLeave a comment on A Pharaoh’s Rise – Revise #1

Poets Bend Your Lines

We poets do not live
within the confines of margins;
poetry itself lives

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 4, 2021August 4, 2021Posted inPoetic Devices, Poetic Learning, Short PoemsTags:free verse, Freeverse, poems, poetry, poetry learning2 Comments on Poets Bend Your Lines

Consuming Us

All beauty has been taken.

The natural is no longer allowed
To be as it is without filter.

The body is no longer a temple;
It’s a canvas on which we paint.

The soul is relegated to metaphor
And no longer allowed to spread
to the hearts of others.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 2, 2021August 2, 2021Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:Freeverse, poetry1 Comment on Consuming Us

Five Miles

She says she is always there,
and I am always here,
so how is it
that five miles can feel
an oceans worth of divide.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 2, 2021August 2, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:Freeverse, Love poem, poem, poetry3 Comments on Five Miles

Collapse

I do not wish to be
the voice of the Bering Sea’s struggle,
nor would I deny the plight
of sea ice and polar bears at once living and dying for home.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 1, 2021August 1, 2021Posted inSocietal Collapse poemsTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Societal Collapse poems3 Comments on Collapse

We Break

We break
as the newspaper
and anchorman read
teleprompter like,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 31, 2021Posted inUncategorizedTags:Freeverse, poems, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on We Break

Cactus Hides

There are people with cactus hides
that walk across the desert sand
where others would
if not for fear that they would die.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 31, 2021Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Cactus Hides

Entropy

This is the law,
the rule of nature eternal,
the force for which we name

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 18, 2021Posted inEnigmasTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poems, poetryLeave a comment on Entropy

The ever decreasing minutes of day

The ever decreasing minutes of day
trickle like the granules in an hourglass;

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 16, 2021July 16, 2021Posted inNature PoemsTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poems, poetryLeave a comment on The ever decreasing minutes of day

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

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

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