Best Janus Faced Poems

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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 ......

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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 bac......

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...Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
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...It's much too close in here
for loneliness,
or companionship.

Either way,
I grow too small
non-existent
non-essential
undervalued domesticity with insufficient commodity,
just another over-......

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...Janus-faced, Jekyll and Hyde—ever revealing, ever concealing,
Uncompromising, stubborn yet humble and yielding
Notoriously sly yet sunny; playful and youthfully mature,
Ephemeral in spirit, fickle......

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...Twas The Night Before Inspection...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
through out Highland Manor, 
     property carpeted in lush green
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
hilly qu......

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...open       
spaces
made me brighten with possibility;
always I'd climb toward a further view;
the fence, the apple tree,
the garage and even a church belfry 
or two

I'd read comic-books,
ma......

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...Life is a Janus-faced Siren,
The Death’s nemesis,
The soul’s swan song,
A black widow, 
A shimmering mirage,
A fleeting moment in time,
A trickster, A temptress,
An elusive chimera,
A heart b......

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...I dream of magic lines but they  elude me.
Chapbook on acrylic tube  palette, janus-faced cave in 
at the crack of dawn,
crescent moonlight awnings turn to  circus of the  soul, 
images that colo......

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...Life is a Janus-faced Siren--
Willfully whimsical, 
Childishly headstrong.
It is death’s nemesis,
The soul’s swan song,
A black widow, a mirage,
A wily enchantress,
An elusive chimera.

Not ......

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...Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so one babbling, creaking, and dabbling dis arming......

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...Loin cloth draped around his anorexic body the Buddha

Searched for the Middle Way between Nothing and All

Counted his blessings and figs as his thoughts focussed

In meditation for humility c......

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...Nigerian graduates,
Suffering because of unemployment,
believing in government’s empty promises.
A meaningless hope on a janus-faced entity
governing sadistically.

A Stewart Annie Everestus's ......

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...O yes! Let i visit her street later
 And praise her, now his wife, in a poem…                          
Right now, the need is of a slogan--             
A political poem.      
The need is of  
The ......

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...I WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME,CHERISH THOSE LOVELY MOMENTS AGAIN.
I WISH I COULD COME OUT OF THIS GLOOMY DISDAIN.
FOR SOMEONE IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO MEASURE FATHOM OF MY PAIN,
FOR ME IT'S A LONG FOUGH......

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