Short Acquaintances Poems

I've been to places
Meeting all kind of faces
Of my life and times....

Read More

So many places I've been meeting many people learning their cultures learning their traditions enjoying life...

Read More

So many good acquaintances-- I wish I could get to know
Alas, we're kept apart-- cuz I made them think I'm too weird, though :(...

Read More

We all get bruised at times in our lives,
People use us all in some way,
Acquaintances, Husbands and Wives.
Unwittingly we all do it too,
Yes, even YOU.......

Read More

Agitators ambush America
anger attacks, abstruse
acquaintances and adversaries acrid
absolutism acolytes abrading
abrogate acrimony
America, arise altogether
amend, amend...

Read More

He misconstrued my intention of friendship
Forver sealing our fate to be acquaintances
Married to others with a nagging sense of loss
Keeping our mates at bay away from true intimacy...

Read More

Wonder how many Soup friends I have
Some are just acquaintances as they pass
What would I do
Without all of you
Dig a hole and write my own epitaph


© Jack Ellison 2015...

Read More

Like it never happened,
we greet each other with
hugs and hellos.
I see you with mutual
friends;
we drive in
separate cars:
acquaintances.
Stuck between loves,
two halves of an unmade
sandwich,
that no one wants
to eat....

Read More

There was an old man on a cart,
Acquaintances knew him as Bart,
As he only ate beans,
He inflated his jeans,
And smelt of a permanent fart…

Inspired by She’s Like the Wind (which I misheard as She’s Got the Wind, lol)
For Giorgio’s A Song Inspires a Poem contest...

Read More

Mixture between opposite groups
Interests and goals realized and shared
New acquaintances gained and enjoyed
Groups and organizations, males and females
Loose minds emerge, ready to interact, to
Either establish business networking or close relationships...

Read More

Blooming season over this year
How many fallen petals are there?
Winds in autumn blow leaves like drifting sand
In my dream, looms vague my native land 

Old acquaintances should still be there
But changes in their faces do appear
In old age I ask myself where to stay
Sorrows render my hair sadly grey...

Read More

Ate less today –
felt stronger
and healthier

worked smarter – 
while doing less seeming
to accomplish more

ignored many shallow
acquaintances...giving extra
time for deeper more meaningful
relationship with a carefully
chosen few

reaffirming to my mind
that only Love
needs no compromising.......

Read More

For much of my life, friends I made with ease until I grew an attitude, riding on a high horse, paternalising associates and acquaintances, pushing friends around, putting on airs they found disturbing, disgusting, despicable and demeaning...

My bad attitude so
incensed friends they chose to scram
demanding I reform....

Read More

Is free will a variable?
Or rather something which you should always come above, 
When you just accept circumstances, 
If you can’t determine your outcome. 

The denouement of a play reveals all sometimes, 
When you don’t know which way it will go, 
Explains that less significant acquaintances, 
Can shape your shopping trip....

Read More

If in my journey to achieve my goals 
I crumble or stumble an lose my soul,
My close acquaintances will know I gave 
it my all 
and know this was only a pitfall,
Without No father-No money- No choice-No guide 
I only act towards my voice inside
If it leads me wrong an down a dead-end
I'll learn from my mistakes an try to comprehend...

Read More

Freshly disturbed soil
Dress shoes and the grass
Folding chairs in rows
Underneath a tent
Or out in the sun

Family, Friends
And Acquaintances
The Director
A Clergyman

Prayers and Hymns
Tears Falling
Last Goodbyes

You're Gone
I'm Here

Grief



Contest: Diminished Hexaverse  Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger  Date: 01/07/2021...

Read More

Doris was quick-thinking
quick-acting, clever, and shrewd
But pointedly polite and polished
Never abrupt or rude

Her knowledge of psychology helped her get by with much
Fooling relatives, acquaintances, coworkers, and such

they were eagerly outsmarted and outmaneuvered by her.
She had an open heart, and a face that was open and pure....

Read More

Every one that has come
      and gone in my life 
   are just passing acquaintances, 

for I am sure to have made
      the same number of enemies
   as much as I’ve made friends.

I’ve not so much as touched
      the lives of those I’ve loved
   —my greatest regret is this.

So should, by chance, today
      I pass away, 
   Sadly, I will not be missed....

Read More

I see you from far away
You’re that girl from Steve’s party
All I know about you 
You get really drunk 
All you know about me
Up to speculation
We approach each other
Fumble with appliances
I put in my headphones
You look at your phone
We have sunken to a lower connection
‘No hello acquaintances’				
Labeled 
And 
Stamped
We go our separate ways...

Read More

Venetian lacy, black masks with feathery eyes

Others gilded in gold leaf and sequinned gems

Come gliding in gondolas to disguise

Obsequiously they dip and bowing bend

St Mark's Square is the meeting place to parade

Stately in silken ball gowns and evening dress

Mask Contest and new acquaintances made

Greet three million visitors more or less...

Read More

I saw the biggest bumblebee
That I have ever seen
And so I guessed, quite naturally,
It must have been the queen.

She hovered, with some smaller bees,
Above some garden blooms,
Demanding some obeisance
From the workers, one assumes.

But since I’m not an expert,
Maybe she was not in charge 
And they were all acquaintances 
With one just extra large....

Read More

You fashioned my heart 
on a cold steel anvil
bashed it and beat 
tried to reshape it
got bored and then left it
you’re a woman
husbands and boyfriends
passing acquaintances 
all left broken hearted
lives ended early
years wasted in grieving 
on the actions of  woman 


more men have died with a broken heart than any war and I add vice versa as well....

Read More

Agony of a crestfallen heart,
Seems magical the way it heals,
Extracting pieces of broken trust,
Still entrenched in it.

Trusting one's perception,
Looking forward to entertain
The upcoming moments,
Like ointment on bruises.

Cannot erase trivial impressions,
But, compassionate emotions
For the acquaintances around,
Act like the spells, diverting grief....

Read More

It’s been a while since I’d been there,
Yet my first sight is old acquaintances in the air,
Their wheeling and turning brings delights of
Graceful thoughts,
And takes me on a windy wing,
As I close my eyes to dip and sway,
Hoping “twirl always be that way
The hawks move out of sight
And I to another place,
I no longer fear their plight
As I watch the humans race....

Read More

**** Remembering a loved one

Remembering a loved one
Giving feeling of a nostalgia
Beautiful were those days
Surely it is not amnesia

Lovely were the days
Charming were the ways
Things were attractive, anyway
And these thoughts always stay

Life has slowly moved on
New acquaintances growing on
Day and day have passed on
However, emptiness is still on

^^^^^^...

Read More