Best Micro Poems


Langue D'Oc, a Micro-Paradelle

Your love song lapsed into ancient French that April day.
I only understood the words of spring and heartsore
lapsed. Only love and heartsore, I understood your ancient 
words of the spring-day song into that French April.

You fabricate my pauses into repetition, silence speaks
of ages strung to rhyme in love’s difficult service
you strung into pauses in service to ages. Fabricate of
love’s repetition, rhyme speaks my difficult silence.

We practice tedium of vows till language breaks apart.
As if art should aim at science, rigorous, quantitative,
rigorous language breaks tedium. Science vows a part of 
quantitative practice till we should aim “as if” at art.

Till we lapsed into language. As your ancient ages only
fabricate quantitative French strung to that difficult
practice, science speaks of tedium and understood rhyme. 

The spring in service of love’s rigorous vows. April 
pauses, heartsore. You and I, apart. If love should aim 
my words at day, repetition breaks into silence of song.

Premium Member Micro Menace

I reek havoc on my unsuspecting hosts
hitch a ride on the good cells, then fight 
start all sorts of insufferable symptoms 
watch them cough and sneeze all day. 

I care not, for I have no feelings
wild and unruly, my sole mission is to
make humans hopelessly miserable. 

Though I am minuscule and invisible 
a mini menace to mankind am I
for I am the almighty VIRUS. 






Date: 7/14/2019

Premium Member Psycho Therapy Micro Bearably

Psychotherapy, micro-bearably.
Pyro-merrily, gyro-herapy, 
lots of chatter, bright new ways,
all pointing to one result.
If we are kind to each other,
if we follow our natural loving hearts,
none of these ways or theories 
will be needed by anybody.
Be nice. Be kind. Be considerate.
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Live as well as you can, by letting others live their way.
Psychotherapy, micro-bearably.
None of it needed if we follow the golden rule.


Premium Member Micro-Feasting

Micro-Feasting
                          by Odin Roark

To propagate the dung heap of ignorance,
Is to place on low simmer
A main course of illiteracy.

How festive the chefs of mental starvation
Make the tables of 140-character-feasting,
Luring the gullible
Along with the lazy,
The doltish
And the lost,
To gorge, then purge,
Then ignore the noxious vapor
Of sentience becoming residue waste.

So stirs this caldron of abbreviated ingredients,
Stifling taste buds for savoring delectable elocution,
Reducing vocabulary to bulimic shorthand
And expecting all to join this achromatic work-around.

Hopefully, the language of full syllabic enunciation
Will return with a vengeance,
Sending expression’s drive-by expediency
Into its all too deserving exile.

Consideration pauses in the distance.
One can hear the echoes of dismay,
“Does this mean we’re expected to read…
AGAIN?
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

The Micro World of Macro Love

I wanna hiding  with you and escape
from this moody realm  in bathyscaphe
that  made from one pea seed or nutshell,
but inwardly this little chamber 
must been craftily and exactly  
prepared as yacht of Abramowitz,
with precious dine room, cupboard, sofa, nice kitchen,
and others fashion  utensils and commodities
protecting gears and comforts setting, -   
have you been happy, satisfied and saluted me,
if we are going to trip and dive in depth of joyce and luxuries 
in such excellent solitudes
swimming nowhere and everywhere?

I wanna vanish with you in silk cocoon
of mulberry worm, 
have gone forever
from all these problems
and hard solved tasks -
jealous, stupidness, side back glances 
from this and others world.

I wanna creating own universe personally,
where all have been simple, the best and informal, 
boarding the airbus of hollow bean pod
to fly somewhere
there no one to step before us,
diminishing for the tiniest blade of grass
gone to one dust,
fluctuating in Brown chaos,
wrapped to molecule,
absorbed in the cloudily world of atom.

And even punishment in the electron
flying with great speed and for no one known
place in universe 
in every instance, 
i am gladly received
as get such life and principle of uncertainty existence,
if only you, my dear, have been happy and satisfied 
with me in that extraordinarily environment 
in micro world of macro love
living nowhere and everywere.

Premium Member Micro Poetry

Micro Poetry


a small dot
on a page
that's all I got

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Big

The bigger you mentally are, 
the bigger your wishes will be!

Haikai - a Micro Anthology - the Mighty Ocean

calm days oceans fit
dress coastlines in white lace
treacherous... the storm

on the wind it glides
oceans of the south surveyed
albatrosses feed

penguins flighty birds
cross ice bellies down... feet push
water... flight masters

aquatic parrots
puffins come to land to breed
Icelanders eat them

oceans deep smokers
new life evolves... dies when stubbed
potential islands

iguanas
some vegetarians
dive oceans to feed

sea mammals... furry
all once murdered for their coats
babies clubbed to death

great auks... now extinct
flightless... netted then eaten
man still hasn't learnt

Premium Member Micro Aggression

Micro Aggression
Written: by Tom Wright
7-8-2016

The world suffers from micro aggression,
Seems we’re offended by every little thing.
But we can’t exist in a world filled with bees,
Without occasionally experiencing a sting;

We’re oft offended by the verbiage one uses,
We fret over things that shouldn’t matter.
While people are dying and going to hell,
Mouths release drivel and hurtful chatter.

We all have hurt feelings from time to time,
Through our anger they become revealing.
It’s imperative that we change our paradigm,
Banishing any prejudices we’re concealing.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.

Haikai - a Micro Anthology - Really

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look... early snowdrops
buried twice this springtime
winter stealing time

proud dandelions
confounds the seasons... blooming
twelve o'clock midday

winters snow in spring
protection from jack the frost
confused... yes i am...

puffed up birds feathers
trapping in their body heat
ducks... swans... ice skating

blizzard... white out
pollution... total wipe out
nature... we'll not know

sunshine... till it dies
nature... human... wild... ignorant
will all life suffer...

the oceans ripple
the calm before the storming
truth... it will happen

our universe...
are we alone... do they know...
they will be...

the question...
do we humans want to live...
nature is asking...

unrequited love
the sun... rising each morning
seeking survivors

senryu
based on mans foibles
really... ignored

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Micro Menace

MICRO MENACE
*******

People pollute, killing all living life!
When will they understand recycling recovers?
Hopeful, helping some species survive.
Intervention inadvertently stops strife.
Success, still wishful thinking, true,
plastic pollution is, 'catch twenty two'!
Micro menace, plastics one hundred and eighteen years old!

Micro Managed Death

Techno-scramble
the ramble of cars on sheet metal
Tall walking for sledge hammer rhythm

The dialysis of t.v. dramas
and hospital soup delivered on time
A team of managers examine

Mortuary
Dead before what could have been
Electromagnetic heart transfer failed

Before the soul left the bed
Whirring of gadgets promised
Earthly pulses and show tunes
As lungs gave out

Haikai - a Micro Anthology - Weather

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climate change... killing
spring bees...  spiders  many flies
early nesters starve

once joy the seasons...
the charm of springs overture...
winter defies it...

today... house  sparrows
 seen nesting... nature wishes...
hopeful they succeed...

grass... verdant... growing...
hedgerows holding back... afraid...
full spring biding time

jet stream...rioting
lost its way... meandering
disturbing nature

the hill piste lingered
children smiled... sledging... what fun
comes the rain... flooding

hot then cold weather
flu viruses all favor...
hope you had your jab...

don't stop feeding birds...
wild mammals too... squirrels nuts...
rats... mice... wildfowl grain

wintertime walking...
shush... have your camera ready
seen... a snowy owl

lincolnshire
just in case one thinks i've jumped
the north atlantic

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Premium Member In a Time of Micro-Identities

IN A TIME OF MICRO-IDENTITIES

At my Unitarian Universalist Society 
no one is Jane Doe or Jack Spratt anymore!
A person being introduced or referenced for their 
political, social or spiritual wisdom, their positive
impact on business, industry, education or community, 
inter-faith connectivity or even their potential for
simple friendship and warmth, must be presented and 
pre-validated by their ethnicity and race, their religion, 
place of origin, their sexual irregularity, behavioral 
irregularities, and any number of special pronouns or nouns 
that have multiplied like weeds after a soaking late spring 
rain or like non-native species of flora or fauna,
imported to address problems both real and imagined, 
that have become prolific and invasive, pervasive and
problematic in unintended ways, like the popular new 
sport called “daring us to get it wrong”…. 

These micro identifications give the person being 
presented an unnecessary social asterisk that divides our 
collective focus, fogging up the intended message, diluting
the joy of engagement, perhaps rendering inconsequential the 
reason they are even there! 
They are no longer simply folks but a type, a brand, perhaps
another public admonition to check our social attitudes, maybe
scold ourselves a little, and it makes me irritated rather than 
appreciative, jaded rather than enthusiastic, somehow
cornered rather than free, a little wary of presenter and
presented, more weary of division, classification and the
perpetually annoying tactics of moral correctitude!  

My pronouns, as you can see, are he, him and his, as normal 
as water and oxygen in our planet’s biosphere, but more
important are my aspirational adjectives: open, giving and loving, 
which admittedly, I’ve discovered, are subject to tidal fluctuations,
my diurnal disposition reaching out and pulling back. But this 
disclosure not-withstanding, let the person and the message speak 
for themselves like the sun speaks of light and the moon, 
like my wife, speaks subtly in phases about sunlight at night! 
Let our penchant for insight and moral validity allow us 
to determine if speaker and word bring us clarity and truth, 
encourages our efforts to find ourselves in each other in this 
reckless adventure we call humankind!

Haikai - a Micro Anthology - Australia


wild Australia
hark... sounds of didgeridoos
mobs of kangaroo

Australian folk...
Aboriginals suffer
arpartied still reigns...

Australian folk...
at one with nature... what's left
arpartied still reigns...

vistas of nature
o that monolith could talk
Australian woes

deforestation
all life suffers pollution
koala's left dead

crocodiles... wildlife
Australia's indigenous
extinctions for real

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