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Green Park Benches ~ A Poem by JP

Old bearded men drifting
in the alleys of night
have died with the sunset
and as I have overlooked
their bodies beneath
green park benches and bridges
they too have overlooked my feet
passing quietly by
as the waitress slips silently
into her second or third
miserable job.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpApril 12, 2022April 15, 2022Posted inPoems about lifeTags:homeless, poem, poetry, Poetry about life, poverty4 Comments on Green Park Benches ~ A Poem by JP

Gifts – A Poem by JP

If all I had were words,
and we were naked in the woods,
I’d give to you the fruit

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Posted byThepoetryofjpFebruary 20, 2022April 12, 2022Posted inShort PoemsTags:desire, poem, poet, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Gifts – A Poem by JP

I Wanted the World

I wanted the world, and I found it,
I poked and I prodded with certain glee.

What I had found was youthful and free,
A boyish desire for wild
And wildernesses within me,
But the world was wicked and cheap
And myself so dumb and naïve
That I had found pills and gold drink.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 16, 2021August 16, 2021Posted inPoems about lifeTags:Drug abuse, free verse, poem, poetry, Poetry about life, recoveryLeave a comment on I Wanted the World

We all Fall Down

Around we go again,
around this ancient dance with plague,
and though we have no rose
blotches to mark our perfect skin

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 15, 2021Posted inPoems About DeathTags:free verse, poetry, Poetry about life, Societal Collapse poemsLeave a comment on We all Fall Down

Simply to Dance

You are not an arrow,
nor is your path
flowing like time itself
from birth to death.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 13, 2021Posted inPoems about lifeTags:free verse, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Simply to Dance

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

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

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

Easter Eggs

I want you to carry my eggs;
I trust you and the care that you take,
yet I know that you are afraid,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 31, 2021Posted inLove Poems, Poems about life, Short PoemsTags:poem, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Easter Eggs

Wooden Frowns

Nothing is more disappointing,
nothing so uncared-for
as one that knows let down,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 29, 2021July 30, 2021Posted inEveryday Things, Poems about lifeTags:free verse, poems, poetry, Poetry about life3 Comments on Wooden Frowns

The Cave

The night comes,
whispering at the eaves,
as if to say,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 23, 2021Posted inPoems about lifeTags:free verse, poetry, Poetry about life1 Comment on The Cave

What if?

What if I made you change
your ideologies today?
there’s babies soft and strange
and hungry human hearts at play
where algorithms dare not go.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 18, 2021Posted inRevolutionary PoetryTags:poem, poems, poetry, Poetry about life, Societal Collapse poemsLeave a comment on What if?

On a Bad Marriage

Everyday was exactly the same,
and the night did nothing,
and staying weighed me like an elephant

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 18, 2021Posted inShort PoemsTags:poem, poems, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on On a Bad Marriage

The Playground of Life

There is a gypsy in her hair;
a place where I slip off to breath,
a paradise of spring and new born things,
a playground made of laughter’s glee.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 17, 2021July 18, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:Love poem, poem, poems, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on The Playground of Life

Do not Fall For a Man Like Me

Do not fall for a man like me
I am not blind; I do not see.
I am the reason storms have names

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 16, 2021July 16, 2021Posted inLove PoemsTags:Love poem, Metaphor, poem, poems, poetry, Poetry about life, poetry on loveLeave a comment on Do not Fall For a Man Like Me

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

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

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

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

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

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