Divided Poems | Examples

Divided Sky

Divided Sky 
Relentless downpour. 
Reflections through rain puddles. 
Angry lightning. 
Wind binding. 
Over-cast darkly. 
Thunder striking. 
Dark tones through juxtaposition. 
Divided sky, emotions. 
Contrast shaded purple hues. 
Sky falling pursued. 
Trees recognized from a distance. 
Angry sky with trivial effections. 
Light to haunted dark. 
Solitary roaming through the graveyard. 
Gloomy after-math. 
Clouds velvet subsided.

Echo Chambers

("Outside Looking In Merit Badge" - MB #40, 2011, original oil)

Echo Chambers

'Everybody’s talkin’ at me
I don’t hear a word they’re saying
Only the echos of my mind….'
And so it is, and so it goes.

Everyone in their own worlds
Safe and secure within the confines
Of confirmation biases
Building castles made of sand.

Meanwhile the tide swells,
Waves come as they always have,
And always will, as everything we believe in
And hold dear will be washed away.

And still we dream
Secure in the folds of our ignorance
Of the rightness of our cause
Whatever it may be.

(6/2/24)

Beneath the inscrutable sky, blinded by divided eternities

Beneath the inscrutable sky, blinded by divided eternities,
We are islands of yearning, adrift in fate,
Each bearing a mysterious longing, a desert within the chest,
And with every heartbeat, my sorrow robustly grows.
Fate, the ancient dramatist who in astral maps has decreed
That we be star-crossed lovers, struck by the curse of the falling star.
Painfully sweet is our allotment, a share of shadow and nectar,
Tasting fleetingly, in profound flight, from the sweetness of ephemeral intimacy.
This is the light we endeavor to clasp tightly,
Like Odysseus, shipwrecked in an epic of froth,
Clinging to the beam that thrashes amongst the violent and caustic waves.
You remained locked in a loveless alliance, you've watched too long.
Belatedly, we discovered each other, drawn by a sublime magnet,
Which seemed, in its ephemeral moment, too intense to be contained.
And thus, nature staged its wild banquet,
A cruel show, unintelligible to hearts, stealing away our happiness.

Divided Waters

A vision seized me, before
The marriage of my kin.
Betrothed to a faith apart,
Like a stray from the hallowed ground;
where forefathers had etched:
A devout Catholic and a pioneer,
A premonition of life truth.

I wandered through the paddy field,
Where crystal water surged;
Fishes of all sizes I had a huge catch.
Between, a river parted,
As white as a snowy flake and high;
Down and below, muddy water reaches their neck.

A laundry basket, brimming over their balanced head
I waved them to join me where abundance flowed.
But they insisted on not coming,
For they had decided their life: shallow and creek
They'd to fetch the water with a small mug.

 Life's destiny weaves one's tapestry
 And no external forces can confine us.

Divided-We-Fall

The world is becoming
impossible to govern
Each person that island
Donne warned us about

All sense of belonging
in mirrors bespoken 
The strength of shared values
—our vanity flouts

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Unity

United we are very strong unite 
Divided we are very wrong unite 
United we are very wise unite 
Divided we need an advice unite 
United we are the winners unite 
Divided we are the losers unite 
United we are the choosers unite 
Divided we are the beggars unite 
Come on unite now or never unite

United We Stand Divided We All Fall

United we stand divided we all fall. Nowadays history seems to be having domino effects. attending public places of worship, public bathrooms, police brutality, institutions of learning, playgrounds, kidnappings are on the rise, hatred, jealousy and senseless mass murders in the land we call home of the brave and freedom where is the safety and happiness bestowed innocent and struggling people will it ever be hope that one day we will all unite.

A Fragile World Divided

A thin veneer of stormy war-clouds arising
To threaten the ever-roiling sovereigns,
Keeping the world in constant surmising
Hence no peace among the sister nations.

To threaten the ever-roiling sovereigns
Each greedily coveting the goods of another
Hence no peace among the sister nations
No family ties of ancestry, sister or brother.

Each greedily coveting the goods of another
Amassing armies for their supposed defenses
No family ties of ancestry, sister or brother,
Nations aggressively building needless fences.

Amassing armies for their supposed defenses
A fragile world divided into opposing castes,
Nations aggressively building needless fences
Makes a thinker wonder how long it can last.

A fragile world divided into opposing castes
Keeping the world in constant surmising,
Makes a thinker wonder how long it can last
A thin veneer of stormy war-clouds arising. 

Written May 10, 2022

We Have Not Been This Divided Since the Civil War

We have not been this divided since the Civil War
I am not speaking of the country
I am talking about my relatives.

The ones they love
I despise.
The ones they revere
I see as misogynist, egotistical and bullying.

We can eat meals together
As long as there is only small talk.
If anyone brings up politics it is over.
People leave angry.

We have never had this in our family before.

A Nation Divided

I see trouble on the near horizon--
A nation divided just is not couth,
Unfortunately, reason is wizen
Frivolous theories accepted as truth,
Intentionally misguiding our youth
Disgraceful political grandstanding,
Foundation institutions crash-landing
News media is shaping opinions,
Honestly, journalism notwithstanding
Common folks now political minions.


written August 13, 2021

A Country Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

Thunderbolts split the stormy air.
The campaign for president heats up.
Insults and curses, accusations and lies,
Hate and confusion, poisoned barbs
Aimed at and finding a mark,
Only to be retipped and redirected
Toward the original sender.
Racism, carefully disguised
As safety precautions. For whom?
Religious intolerance in the guise
Again, of our country’s safety, 
Deliberately misinterpreting the facts.
Religious zealots posing as victims
So they can self-righteously
Deny others their religious freedom.
Party set against party,
Candidate against candidate, 
And people more and more divided.
Whose rights are right, whose are not?
What are rights and what are not? 
Deceits and insults the game of the day.
Who can prove the other to have
The most fatally flawed character.
Gone civility - plain and obvious facts
Hidden in a manure pile of lies
Poisoning the air, poisoning the minds
Of those who listen but do not hear, 
Of those who see not what is the truth,
But only what they choose to see.
Following the Pied Piper to …….?

*Abraham Lincoln quote

A Nation Divided Has Me

A Nation Divided Has Me
By: Tom
1/18/2021

A-ngry

N-ervous
A-nnoyed
T-ense
I-mpulsive
O-bserving
N-eglected

D-ivided
I-maginative
V-exed
I-mperfect
D-isturbed
E-motional
D-epressed

Morality Divided

MORALITY DIVIDED

                            Morality, where art, thou?
                          Good morals, down they go.
                    Greed, abuse of power, selfishness,
                grandiosity, materialism, shamelessness, 
               all abound and promoted by reality shows.
                 Goodness is still around, as some show
              their virtues, like acts of kindness, empathy.
            Let us be united to bring back or show morality.



8/13/21   Submitted A Brian Strand Rhyme Me Poetry
               Brian Strand 


1/2/21     Morality Poetry       Mark Koplin

A Foreshadowing

This decade did begin with hope;
year twenty-twenty- promise had.
We did not know its downward slope
would bring us to a time so sad.

Our country- so divided now-
the politics of clashing rules;
foreboding is the when and how-
the yes or no- if discord cools.

Foreshadowing the year ahead-
fear of a third-world war instills
deep in my heart- that awful dread;
a fight ahead of clashing wills.

Dear God, please help us at this time;
divides grows stronger, day by day.
From this dark madness, help us climb;
our sick divisions- heal, some way.

A Nation Divided - Appropriate

A nation divided, its fabric ripped to shreds
Like a clipper ship’s sails in a hurricane
Its rudder wrenched from its stern
Leaving its course to the mercy of its abuser
The fate of its crew dependent on its strength
And its ability to weather the storm 
To once again sail proudly and majestically
Over the treacherous seas of public opinion.

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