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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

The Mad King of Araucani

My vast kingdom, larger than France and Spain
led a crusade against conquest and genocide,
I did not have birth right, nor did I take it by sword,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 15, 2020July 19, 2020Posted inRevolutionary Poetry, Societal Collapse poemsTags:history, Mapuche Poetry, Uncategorized Poetry1 Comment on The Mad King of Araucani

The Fool

Should my heart suddenly explode
and cease it’s earthly needs,
and being stubborn leave for me

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 14, 2020July 19, 2020Posted inLove Poems, Uncategorized PoetryTags:on heartbreak, poem, poems, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on The Fool

You Can Do This — A Prayer

To think a mans fate is decided
not by the battle won or lost
but by the heart alone is more

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 14, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inPoems About Death, Poems about life, Uncategorized PoetryTags:poem, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on You Can Do This — A Prayer

All the World is a Common Thing

I woke in twilight’s magic hour,
between the pitch of night,
pulled down over the land and sky

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 14, 2020July 19, 2020Posted inMythology Poetry, Uncategorized PoetryTags:folklore, free verse, magic, poem, poems, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on All the World is a Common Thing

The Hazel Tree – version 2

We do not know exactly what is believed
until the moment it is placed at feet,
there is either faeries at the bottom,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 12, 2020July 20, 2020Posted inMythology Poetry, Uncategorized PoetryTags:Celtic Mythology, Irish Symbolism, Mythology Poetry, symbolism, Uncategorized Poetry1 Comment on The Hazel Tree – version 2

The Hazel Tree

With roots extending to the underworld
the hazel at the borders hides fairies,
and all creation is astir.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 12, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inMythology PoetryTags:Celtic Mythology, Irish Symbolism, symbolism, The tree of life, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on The Hazel Tree

The Sword That Cuts Down Scepter and State

When among men will come the cost of deeds?
what mad pursuit of silk and gold is this
that we, we happy breed of men have let

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 10, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inRevolutionary PoetryTags:revolution, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on The Sword That Cuts Down Scepter and State

To Future Lands

I’ve heard the talk of proof that is puzzling you

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inPoems about life, UncategorizedTags:creation, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on To Future Lands

Yellowish pad

My breath fogs the window,
some promise out of science
has arrived,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 16, 2020Posted inEveryday Things, Nature Poems, Uncategorized PoetryTags:Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Yellowish pad

On Loss

I wished to see your smile,
but got only pain the while—

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inLove Poems, UncategorizedTags:loss, love, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on On Loss

Visions of Dust and Dirt

It’s things grown old that hurt my bones,
a spread of green can easily fold
to visions of dust and dirt, and worse.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inMetrical VerseTags:Uncategorized Poetry, villanelleLeave a comment on Visions of Dust and Dirt

Blue Birds of Love

If I)
May make my heart

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 15, 2020Posted inLove PoemsTags:love, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Blue Birds of Love

Chicago Poet

Among the smoke and fog of a coal fire,
the steel and the city

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inUncategorized PoetryTags:Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Chicago Poet

Doomed

Some say the times are changing fast,
Some say they always have.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 9, 2020July 16, 2020Posted inSocietal Collapse poemsTags:history repeats, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Doomed

The Gallows

Let the elite country clubs become grave yards.
Come and erect the boards,
and let low the noose, and let known the deeds

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 8, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inRevolutionary Poetry, Societal Collapse poemsTags:revolution, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on The Gallows

Should I Compare You To a Winters Morn – Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Mirror

Should I compare you to a winters morn?
You are more bitter and more discontent

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 7, 2020July 16, 2020Posted inMetrical Verse, UncategorizedTags:gold digger, Sonnet, Uncategorized PoetryLeave a comment on Should I Compare You To a Winters Morn – Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Mirror

A Pharaohs Rise

Among the worlds most pressing ruins I have seen
artifacts come rising as phoenixes
to part their form from the fierce driven wind
and sand that whirls around in its dying

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 7, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inScience Poetry, Societal Collapse poemsTags:Archaeology, Mysteries, Uncategorized Poetry1 Comment on A Pharaohs Rise

The Stillest Things

The summer crests and meets
fleeting flecks of dyeing dog days,
an era vanishes into the past—

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 7, 2020July 16, 2020Posted inNature PoemsTags:nature, poem, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on The Stillest Things

Tracing that Long Path

Our lives pass like cherry blossoms,
snapped from hurried branch to ripened fruit.
We flit from first to fledged to finished,
put out to ash one hundred years an instant.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 7, 2020July 16, 2021Posted inEnigmas, Poems about lifeTags:human curiosity, poem, poems, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on Tracing that Long Path

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