Language Poems | Examples

Premium Member It is my sincere belief that --


        In my opinion, I think, I feel
        Actually, In truth, To be honest
        As for me, To my mind
        I’d just like to suggest ~
          that we eliminate 
          these pointless pests

Premium Member Madness

Madness~

wrought from the

inexplicability of

seeming separation~

and  futile searching

for a fulfilling

explanation~

some set of words

rewarded from a

satisfying diligence

yielding at last~

Madness~~


Premium Member Fae-tinged English Haiku Duo

England glides in grace.
Heartfelt Oak and Sage herald
Its faery language.

English lightens weight,
Glides through fae-tinged tales to wake
Syllabic rebirth.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member A Flutter


   The books left
   Flying out
   All the words sliding
   Leaving the pages
   As the books took flight

   No words left to describe the night
   Fluttering with stiff covers
   Pages falling/fading with the light
   Fires took our history

   Books removed to twist the news
   Rewritten by barbarians
   With which we are smitten
   Cannot lose

   The books left
   All our words gone in spite
   Only ashes remain to light our night

Premium Member Listen to the Wind

Shh...
close your eyes to find your peace
listen to the wind and its mystic secrets

The universe the clouds the sun the moon
have their own cosmic language
and who better to translate than the wind

Shh...
close your eyes and stand very still
give it time to harmonize mind heart and soul


Ligature of Language

They say “gentle” before “man”
as if softness must be stapled
to power to make it palatable.
As if the fist, once gloved, is no longer a fist.

They say “strong” before “woman”
as if endurance must be embroidered
onto flesh to make it forgivable.
As if the cleft, once crowned, is no longer a cleft.

Adjectives are corsets-
the ligature of language,
cinching identity until it fits,
the silhouette of acceptability.
A strangulation ritual
masquerading as grammar.

Let the noun speak- naked.

Whispers of Silence

Last night silence spoke,
with fear and with dread,
a language whispered
only in the dark,
spoken by shadows,
heard mainly by kids.

Few adults could hear
what light would not bear
but darkness conveyed—
that language of fear
spoken in silence.

But who taught us
how to speak and hear?
What spirits cannot spit,
yet phantoms cry out,
to our trembling ears.

The night holds its breath,
its secrets confined,
trees bend to listen,
their shadows arise,
to echo the hush.

Fears stagger and fall,
as silence takes shape,
a face without form,
a voice without sound,
that silence still dread.

Citizen John

Am I a foul fellow when the house is longer than this morning? Am I the designer of the living room that doesn’t encourage formality, because we’re associated with rigid boundaries? I’m the next citizen of an affluent hovel. I’ll be the next coastal lowland along any gulf & hearing your voice, pattering on every rooftop, I cover all the island-dotted lakes with your shadow. Somewhere within, a breath produces vapour, making the sauna feel even hotter. Now if my shop doesn’t pay you, it means my family goes hungry. No public property is written off here. You’re the capital of these floating islands, a nice account in the only bank here, you can take my people for a holiday to May Isle. I get a bit of capital, nothing is your own, is it? It’s for her, my daughter in a white mask.

Premium Member When my little poem is sad, she cries

When my little poem is sad, she cries.
It happens when people tell lies
about this, about that
and never really get at
the meaning of her sends,
her forwards,
or replies.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member So Many Choices, Coincidentally

      By the bye or by the way
        either one I never say 
 
      I choose to use ‘incidentally’ 
        anyway or accidentally
Form: Couplet

The Law of Wolves and Sheep

The only masters of words
are lawyers and politicians,
twisting syllables into chains,
binding the public
with illusions of justice.

International law?
A fragile parchment,
easily burned by power.
The mighty—
America and its allies—
violate it in daylight,
and walk away untouched.
The court that dares to judge them—
a kangaroo court,
mocking its own shadow.

And you, Africa,
you global south,
clinging to Roman-Dutch law,
do you not see?
You punish yourselves
with borrowed codes,
carrying wounds
not written for your soil.

Justice is no relic.
Law should be a river,
flowing with the times,
not a stone wall
blocking progress.

It should shield the weak,
balance the scales,
and light the path
toward a better society.

But in the world of wolves and sheep,
law is but a costume—
a shepherd’s cloak
draped over the wolf’s back,
while the flock dreams of safety,
never knowing
they are already lost.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Escape from an Ivory Tower

   Teleological
      hypotheses bore me

   Tautological phraseology
      snores me

   A beer and a burger ~
      I adore thee
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Mo Fum

    fee, fi, fo, fum
    eenie, meenie, miny, mo...
    
    absurdities abound
    rubber buggy bumpers
      for instance… or, blackbirds
      baked in a pie… perchance
      there's a fungus amungus...

        eenie, meenie, desalini
        ucha-a-wa'alini
        hepta-minika-zokalini

        doo-wa-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-doo...


     
     In honor of 'National Bad Poetry' day
                (How'd I do-- D?)

Home

She say she wants to go home with me tonight as we sit by the bus park,
but I tell her we can make home right here in this moments,
haven't you heard heavens rumours that the god of love escaped,
maybe the rumours are true cause you are with him at the moment,
gods create let me create love like no other for both of us in this moment,
you realize I cannot stop staring at you heavy chest,
because am already in the world of fantasy you squeezing me with those beautiful breasts of yours
till I ran out of breathe,
don't worry you won't kill me am already dead cause I died the moment I saw you
so am as well zombified in the moment,
let me handle you with care cause that what happens in home,
and I would do a perfect job of taking you home as you wanted

Premium Member Judgement is Mine

the words scowled
peering through the bars
imprisoned thoughts
rattling empty cups

they had been arrested
incarcerated
denied expression
unjustly accused

charged with
unfettered utterances
benign belligerence 
the most heinous with
Double Entendre-ing

They all claimed to be but pawns
Innocent bystanders
Drawn into the fray
Succumbing to the wily whim of wit

Some will be shunned forever
Lurk in the shadows…waiting
Others will “clean-up” better
assume “new” meanings

Many will work behind the scenes
Savor the eerie darkness
Of language and its implied intent and meaning
For “Judgement is Mine…Sayeth the Poet”

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