Best Abbreviations Poems
MY AGE
My age is nothing but a number, nothing but a slumber that I can’t wake from, this is what I’ve done. I’ve looked around and found that the matter of the fact is life isn’t what it’s supposed to be for me.
The average teenager spends most of their lifetime looking at their phones and when it’s time to learn something new their minds have already grown. Absorbing every single thing that they are sold, having a twelve year old’s body and the mind of a twenty one year old.
Social media doesn’t help the situation, it only changes how the different problems are situated. It has stolen complete sentences and created abbreviations, shortcuts of a language used by my generation. You could be laughing out loud when in reality you’re crying, saying TBH to be honest when in actual fact you’re actually lying.
And to that you can’t say anything because if LIFE was abbreviated it would stand for Living In Fear of Everything.
This is what I go through, in addition the music industry has had a major breakthrough. It has managed to be more influential promoting sex, drugs and slurs that are racial. “Making money moves” is about dancing on a pole, “Smoke weed everyday” is the daily intake of dope and this is said all while mentioning the one African American slave term that we all know. My nig-...I can’t say it though. So why do you. You have no idea who that affects. Sometimes we need to learn to be more politically correct.
They say that euphoria is just around the corner, behind the school building in a midst of vape. These are the lies they create, saying everything is ok. Just inhale it once and you’ll be done. I’m sorry, you can call me a loner but don’t mistake me for a stoner. One shot, two shots, three shots, four, hard. Call me antisocial but I’ve never drank before and I’m not about to start.
Society is full of influences, temptations and choices. However people like me always end up being voiceless. They think we’re too young to have any serious issues, that’s just another excuse for not wanting to accept the truth. You choose to change the subject to something totally unrelated, “We don’t have many problems?” well isn’t that an understatement?
You say that it will change, you say it’s just a phase, you say it’s another page in my story, no, this stage, right here...
This is MY AGE!
A period am I; you do not see
me all that much in poems any more.
At times I’m placed by poets awkwardly
before a line is finished! I implore
you, don’t disgrace me. Surely you can use
me easily. I’m just a little dot!
I end each sentence. How can you abuse
me? Try to think of what your teachers taught!
Each sentence has a subject and a verb,
but sometimes phrases enter in the flow
to lengthen sentences, and they might curb
you if my friend, the comma, is your foe!
Review things! I am not my comma friend.
Please put me where each sentence has its end!
For the Punctuation Personified Contest of Debbie Guzzi
* by the way, seems we can put the period anywhere except in the Soup title heading after abbreviations like Ms.
C.I.C.
Codex Iuris Canonici (Code of Canon Law)
HIS
Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus Savor of Mankind)
Abbreviation for Responsory / Response
R.
Latin words for B.M.V.
Beata Maria Virgo (Blessed Mary the Virgin)
Initials F.S.S.P. refer as
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Acronym for 'Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior' spells
"fish" in Greek
6. ICHTHUS (or ICTHUS)
Abbreviation for Apostle
Ap
L.D.S. stand for
Laus Deo semper (Praise to God always)
Initials represent the Latin version of 'For the greater glory of God'
A.M.D.G. (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
Initials are associated with the inscription on the Cross and they stand for
I.N.R.I. - Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum [Latin for 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews']
--Her Name is Synesthesia --
I imagine color so vivid
leaving those lips--
as if a doorway
to another dimension.
Each hue a photon fingerprint;
appearing in this moment
a manifestation--
lovely, serene, glowing.
The visible spectrum
of your soul dancing
like willows in mid September.
Green goddess of dawn strolling throughout the night sky;
forest hiding its identity; snow covered and silent--
horizon bursting into flames a million miles away;
mere abbreviations of you.
Shimmering foam gliding
across the shoreline
before retreating back home--
I long for such dedication.
Where have you been?
During the tens of thousands
of circles the clock hands ran
while I sat as a delphinium
missing the sun in December.
While needles surf my skin
carving among this canvas
I can only wonder--
daydream and decipher;
Yes, I remember.
I struggle with this modern speak
It’s as confusing as can be
Nonsense sentences that are stopped
With a colon and a p : p
Then there is this other crap
A semi colon and a bracket ; )
Do you think I’m a clever prick
Because I can’t bloody crack it
Abbreviations sure don’t help
What the hell is SMS?
Obviously for something short
The message I can’t guess.
I sometimes email questions
And get answered IDK
Please dear God give me strength
I no know what you say!
FYI doesn’t help
I need more information
And when I ask and get a K
It causes irritation
I guess you think it’s funny
To reply with L. O. L
Damn you bastards with your speak
Our language has gone to hell.
Fakers
Fraudsters
Frankenstein's
Come on please
in your wheelchairs
so what?
No knees, big deal
you have so many abbreviations
more than eye
Show offs with your big wheels
missing body parts here and there
virus and bacteria attacking you everywhere
So what? is what I say
why do you all steal my label
you two handed freaks
Stop with this handicapped nonsense
you have two hands
so leave me my sorrows, and only word
Tiss I
who is handicapped
with one hand
Eye know
‘It’ is something many computer salesman don’t know exists
but our laptops wouldn’t be secure without 'it'.
‘It’ is a tiny component, vital for the stability of our computers
Without ‘it’ they would wobble about.
I learned about ‘it’ from our friend Malc
I was thinking of getting a new laptop
He advised me to ask the salesman if it had LRF
Malc is very knowledgeable, so I asked the salesman
Does it have LRF? My friend Malc says it must have 'it'
The salesman scratched his chin and looked puzzled
LRF – I’ve never heard of ‘it’, are you sure ‘it’ is vital
I persisted and said Malc had insisted my laptop MUST have ‘it’
I said I couldn’t buy the computer if it didn’t have LRF
and could he find out for me…
The salesman found his boss and he hadn’t heard of ‘it’ either
So I rang Malc’s mobile
Said I had a problem as the salesman couldn’t confirm the laptop had ‘it’
Malc said he’d come to the store to check
He arrived…
Turned the laptop over and peered at the base…
Yes this one is fine; I see it has LRF
The salesman looked perplexed,
explaining he’d worked in computers for years and had never heard of ‘it’
Please tell me, what ‘it’ is, he asked
Malc grinned and looked him straight in the eye
‘Little Rubber Feet’, he said … ‘it’ is a vital component!
Now, hands up….
How many of you have just felt the corner of your laptop to see if yours has ‘it’!
IT Poetry contest
Sponsored by John Lawless
11-25-17
Fiction write but based on a true story. Our friend Malc worked in IT and got fed up of salesman bombarding people with ‘technospeak’ especially three letter abbreviations so LRF was his little joke at getting back at them.
armies of demented chaos
an abhorrent demonstration
of abbreviations and loss
crying out for retribution
precisely poised to detonate
the explosive that is shame
forcing all to contemplate
who's running this sick game
bleeding massive effort
for zero appreciation
the ego loves to extort
all of beautiful creation
statistics and probability
a mass struggle for control
the raping of all sanity
oh, how emotion takes its toll
People tell me to try and be happy
and for them I try
yet how can I
What ways can I
I'm drowning in the cards
Karma dealt to me
I can't drown out the noises, the voices
the candle that burned out
from the overdose of a thousand lies
The wind can't appreciate a moment alone
the last night I had to say goodbye
I had to close the wounds before
the drainage started
Forget everything
Yours to hold, nothing more than a misconception
Agitation of the abbreviations
my reward for sacrificing myself
putting everyone else first instead of myself
My reward is a chain of misery
pain and suffering
I can hear the talk
but I'll walk over the edge
without a splat cause I hate it like that
Trap me in a room with anybody that hates me
and I'll be an animal in a cage
full of rage and hate
Too late for me to change
can't hold me
Rather be under a shady tree but shady made me
Despite the hidden rain
despite the look in my eyes
I'm dying on the inside
Weather?
What you ate?
Is this really my Internet fate?
Emotions!
What you feel!
Are feelings and emotions
out of date?
Abbreviations.
Is English dead?
Are we all so busy people unable
to use their heads?
Responses.
Let people hang?
Deaf to emails and texts.
Ignored, as if we were already dead.
August 1, 2019
11:00am PST
When she really wanted to grow up,
she used to think it must be easier
to be grown than to be small.
She used to think, and she had faith in it,
that if she were a little more skillful,
dreaming would be worth it,
because the girl used to believe
that dreamed dreams
became true
with time.
And all the girl wanted then
was to see all of her dreams
racing through time
so they could become reality.
She became less confused
when a wise teacher
helped her understand
that we grow up faster
the more perfect
our learning is.
In every possible way
the child wanted to learn.
She wanted to know everything,
not just the fact, but the reason
for stars hanging in the sky,
for gravity and centifugal force,
for storms and for flowering.
The more the time passed,
the more she tried to learn.
And she touched everything
and she felt everything
and she read everything.
She used to eat
with the hunger of someone who wants to have
ideas,
and to understand them,
science and philosophy,
arts and eruptions,
names and abbreviations.
But when girl had finally grown up
as all creatures
do
a deep sadness
overtook her completely.
Now that she knew
about colors and transparent colors,
about Gregorian chant and itchy skin
about moons and circumferences,
about the world, about onomatopeia,
she could easily understand
that dream and reality
are parallel lines.
Last week I was shopping for ideas on the corner of metaphor and allegory,
Rummaging through a pile of discount words to help me tell a story.
A shelf of very expensive words caught my eye because they were so flirty,
Then a drawer of words that must have fallen down because they were so dirty.
There were several words in a mark down bin and they were really cheap,
And even though they didn’t quite fit I decided that I would keep…. them.
I could bend them down and twist them around until the sentence was a maze,
With just a little bit of reworking I found that I could shape them into a phrase.
I’d have to wrestle with a word sometimes until my huffing face turned purple,
Then I‘d have to resort to telling lies like, an aglet is also called a nerple.
Remember when you’re shopping for words that orange creates angst,
And that a poem is never really done until the subject is properly thanksed.
The word store sent me a coupon in the mail showing the fifty percent off it gives,
It says that this is the greatest sale of all time so I went looking for superlatives.
But when I got there I found out that the sale had several misrepresentations.
It seems the promised discount was only good on words with abbreviations.
A Teenager Helps His Mother With the Internet
By Elton Camp
Rory’s mom was new to the Internet
The abbreviations she didn’t get
“ROTFL, WTF, STFU I see everywhere.
Explain them, dear, if you don’t care.”
She expected him to help her out
That she’d approve Rory did doubt
So an explanation he wrote out
To say what they were about
“Really Ought To Fix Lunch
Is why you see that a bunch.”
“Well That’s Fantastic care shows
Thus, you will see lots of those.”
“Sorry, Thanks For Understanding too.
For kind words these letters will do.”
So his mom began to use ‘em on Facebook
Soon, for Rory, she began to angrily look
“Those abbreviation you taught me
Are nothing but a lie, I’ve come to see!”
“I used them with the preacher’s wife.
I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life.”
If I have to move on/regardless won’t lose myself/ alarming like Charlie Chaplin/took a while to get a reaction/ hogging the role of who loves me the most/narcissistic or action figure/ we all gotta grow /if I turn Muslim would god give me stories unmask the beast Goldie Israel black Wall Street I’ve already done it/double up everything it/charge the game up/ any ring or trigger finger could give a who’s with her/blow abbreviations misses don’t be a roach and get caught up slipping /sacrifice me my conscious high jacks anybody/ in a regular mood had insecurity issues/ it’s strange how valuable food/ digest in your system/ get it?/give to charity more and you increase overall income/ over your shoulder cuz facts will target your feelings/turn to gadgets and drown all your freedom. its bull how now your awoke/suddenly just a victim/ opportunity goals position I team up/ the youth looking good/ first look at yourself and then lead them. I’m drinking a lot more but I blaze the weed up/ I sleep less all my battles keep me edgy/focus fines
ABBREVIATIONS
I have this wonderful experience:
6:00 PM
The opportunity to be with my granddaughters
Aged seven and nine.
Dancing with them with the WII thing
Following the girating bodies in the screen
The fun was priceless with these two “princesses”.
Past 11:00 PM
Time to go to sleep, crimp our bodies in a single bed
For we really want to sleep together
The prayer was heartful started with Dear LORD
So many thanks and so many “May you please LORD”
It is a heart-warming experience.
6:00 AM
Their tiny hands pounding
One of them has a pink color about 4”x3”
The other has a white color same size
What are those?
DS they chorusly replied.
It dawned on me
From last night what are all these abbreviations means?
WII, DS, lol, btw, among others
The evolution or creation of these words
Mind-boggling for some baby boomers like me!
11:00AM
Spent my time googling these words!