Short Affronts Poems
Short Affronts Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Affronts by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Affronts by length and keyword.
When We Get There
When we get to our appointed heaven
hearts and minds still cooling
slights and insults recovering
from many a minor bullet hole
from small caliber affronts
loathing’s and spites
and other petty punctures
wounds covered over so long
with rank plasters
plugs and scabs
that even now leave
a tell-tale lingering smell
an inevitable odor
of a once self-inflicted hell...
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Categories:
affronts, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Coarse
Once in disguise of sanity
The love of work belonged to me
Now with age I clearly see
An endless structured bondage
Shiny bright fresh minted
From the college briefly stinted
Onward working place demented
Soon deprives the soul of peace
Blinders set to stay the course
Daily risk the cart affronts the horse
Grieved for life by decades mesmerized
Tears retire the fiction folly...
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Categories:
affronts, career, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Weeping Webbed World: Apropos of a Syrian Nightmare
Weeping Webbed World
(Apropos of a Syrian Nightmare)
Affronts to humanity streak the skies
Like once perched war eagles
Soaring over communities of prey
Where the lingering smell of death
Is as normal as the scent flowers once had.
A grieving webbed world in abject apathy
Awaits the cesarean births of hope and peace—
Hope and peace laboring on the delivery table of life.
Will they too, become miscarriage siblings?...
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Categories:
affronts, children, death, grief, imagery, metaphor, war, world,
Form:
Prose Poetry