Best Janus Poems

Attacked by Janus-faced complexity
My mind responds with functionality
To present either sheer timidity
Or self-entitlement tenacity.

Gripped with hypocrisy’s duplicity
I succumb to boastfulness-dignity
In striving for victorious verity
Achieving, though blown by futility.

Then, playing safe midst glad security
My conscience settles for “low” identity
Yet, that is not true in actuality
Since I’m...

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Written: November 10, 2023, For Edward Ibeh Contest 
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As if to atone, I gaze into the obscurity of my soul.
When I glance back, I feel vulnerable, as in a hole.
A thrilling and...

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“I hold a delightful being and an undesirable being inside of me. 
                             It’s up to you...

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JANUS FACE

When looking to my right
I see images of yesterday
Once sharp, now blurred
Yet comfortable in a way
And somehow preferred
But will it always be night

When I’m looking to the left
As today becomes tomorrow
And seeing a hint of sunshine
Dispelling all traces of sorrow
Prospects should now be fine
No...

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    Tendrils twist and dance, guiltless, unblamed, 
getaway vehicle, of the flame-
uncharged of previous transpyre, that's your game.
Like a serpent you shed your skin of the shame 
of the red-handed fire.
You greasy sleaze, you leave yourself lingering, 
advertising yourself...

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"The Janus Sacrifice"

Janus 
opens and closes 
the ebbing time
greeted by 
two faces 
justice 
on a coin 
flipped 
betrayal
loyalty
scepticism
trust 
belief
disbelief
truth appears 
through 
those eyes 
walk-ins
two mirror images
stand in judgement
like night and day
light and dark 
leaping priests
embedded in the helix
of all of us

rationality and 
the illusion of...

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People have two sides
Like The Roman God Janus' coin
A good side, a bad side
A past, a future
One must embrace both in
Someone we love...

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Blessed with two heads
Welcoming new aims to view
Review-renew old

Quietness all around
Secret actions in full swing
Impregnating soil.

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May 7, 2014
Form: Haiku
Dr. Ram Mehta
Fifth Place win
Contest: Two haiku on January by Irma,...

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In reprimand of Donald Janus Tramp
     (the Grand Old Party's best and choicest loser,
who sleazed and promised us he'll “drain the swamp”),
     you live up to your name for there's none cruder

than you. And you behave like...

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Shiver if you will, I will seed your dreams, it is my way
and though the days sun may linger longer ...
it will not warm you.
A handsome handmaiden is the month of May
but, I roar and rail, temper tossed and ambivalent
~if you have no heat
~~if you...

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Janus opens the door after a long sleep
And looks through the gate of the past,
Now says farewell to all that’s been done
Until turning his head to the future,
And walks in one direction for all to follow.
Restart has begun and it’s now a new
Year, and Janus...

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Come two faced Janus, lie to us
Bring me to your door, and leave me ambiguous
A sane drunk in the roads middle
Between prophecy and history
The present stands on a griddle
Full of rational ambiguity
We are burning now
Who dream of a happy new year
While to the bottle bow
Seeking...

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Dear Janus-mirrored face,

Sometimes when I feel alone
and highly self-invested,
sometimes when I don’t feel heard
or I do feel under-appreciated,

I also discover
that my challenges are a bit less about Other,
what we are and are not doing correctly,
wisely,
with integrity,

A bit more about me
and my limited wisdom,
possibly compromised integrity,
lack...

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Who we are in our minds
To show all others in this time
Janus hearts beat as mine
But what she sells outside is not the true person behind blinds

A smiling face, a light walk
Tells nothing of her true hearts
Everyday the same, rain or sun she moves on
Each...

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Janus Face

Chaotic dialect set-off back-and-forth
Two contrasting characteristics 
One is proven to be duplicitous
Political backing of the other party
Now denies it
A refusal that of a true statement
Two-headed bull, speaks gibberish
But the bull is goaded,
wounded, half-crazed
If the bull could reason, 
it would understand
After the matador shows off...

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