Janus Faced Poems - Poems about Janus Faced

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The world aspires toward reflection. Words are the oblique mirrors that hold our thoughts. We gaze into these word-mirrors and catch glimpses of meaning, be......Read the rest...

...Life is a Janus-faced Siren— willfully whimsical, childishly adamant, It is death’s nemesis, the soul’s swan song a black widow, a scheming enchantress, a mirage, an elusive chimera! Not every......Read the rest...

... 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 ......Read the rest...

... Written: November 10, 2023, For Edward Ibeh Contest __________________________________________ As if to atone, I gaze into the obscurity of my soul. When I glance bac......Read the rest...

...clay mask cracks, falls way; janus-faced! self-absorbed; your......Read the rest...

...Twas fortnight before inspection 2021..., Not a human creature stirred, nor seen throughout Highland Manor, property carpeted in lush green gently hilly terrain, (a deathlike stillness desce......Read the rest...

...'The storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret' It was surfers' paradise weather but he had only captured a dinghy Made from lost dreams and drift wood collected in s......Read the rest...

...Me a zombie? Never! Just a viral doofus poseur, Brainiac and hacker on the loose tapping into other genie lamps, Wireless Stikbot floater skipping ID challenge. Hurdles that authenticate saliva ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...oft times brutal not so short, but nasty acknowledgement, (this anonymous, conscientious, efficacious... frivolous gent writhes at bloody history), yet mindful premeditated how to be worthy, ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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. ......Read the rest...