Best Footnotes Poems

The Greatest Gift of All?
(A Finite Human Lifespan)
There is pleasure in 'knowing' this life will be ending,
the space my flesh occupies 'opening up' for 'not me(s)'
though my life has been great (I'd say fun for the most part!)
'Term limits' get my vote (more moral than...

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God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!

God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!

God bless each day's magnetic field on Earth (1) that shields the human race
from cosmic rays bombarding Earth and us (from 'Sun' AND 'Outer Space!') (2)
Auspicious forces nurture all of life...

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Strewn on the shoreline, as I walk along the beach
Bits and pieces of life forms, churned up from beneath
Shells, jellyfish, crustaceans, even sea anemones
What was alive yesterday, lays shredded in the weeds

Hard to fathom what happens, below ocean waves,
One big stewing pot, perhaps a connoisseurs...

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Footnotes to the crime 
mankind divided the ruination 
of the kingdom 

earth bleeding into Stardust 
a time lost and forgotten 
in footnotes to the crime 
desolation prime

time is at hand the real ruination 
of man division of this land 
the lost kingdoms of the earth...

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Well for those who know me, and are wondering, I have finally posted the foot notes to that poem as promised!!!! :)  Hope you laugh and enjoy, I may later post the lyrics in both French and English here for fun. If you are...

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Over the head of each metatarsal
you can see 
where each has been pounded;
some are more abused than others.

Over the years 
new prominences and depressions
form and reform.
Surreal faces appear 
within the lines of the skin,
features that now seem 
to look inward
as if the hammer had become...

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A book with no cover,
  a man with no name

Vowels dormant and muted,
  as consonants reign

A plot with no purpose,
  an ending refrained

Its message in conflict
   —with footnotes of pain

 
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)...

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i have several feet

stinky feet
dry feet
sweaty feet
scaly feet
aching feet
flat feet
and barking dog-tired feet

it just does not seem right
that they are all attached
to the same toes...

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We all become
stories
at the end
of the day

The true
and the false
the black
and the grey

The plot lines
will vary
the ends
in due course

As history
remembers
with joy
— and remorse

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)


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Not for nothing
does the light prick my eyes,
a thirst for walking shoes
tightens ankle bones
that parachute out of an inner attic
landing awkwardly into the open throats
of sneakers
still clutching their tendons.

Out from under a dim tented roof
the world is overrun with Asterix's
small confusing marks
that suggest footnotes and...

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Cultural and Social Terms

Idol: In Persian poetry, often refers to the beloved, particularly one who is non-Muslim. The term carries complex connotations of forbidden desire and spiritual challenge.

Veil: Refers both to the physical head covering and the metaphysical veil between the material and spiritual worlds...

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Literary and Cultural Terms

Masnavi (also Mathnawi): A classical Persian poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets with a continuous narrative. The most famous example is Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), a foundational work of Sufi literature.

Saqi (also Saqi): The cupbearer or wine-server in Persian poetry, often...

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A thirst for walking shoes tightens ankle bones –
it would be sure enough a miracle
if for at least one morning
I could parachute out of my own inner attic
to make a soft landing into
lighter than air sneakers.

Alas this world is overrun with footnotes,
warnings that we are...

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