Short Apocalyptic Poems

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Premium Member Apocalypse Now

We're the most intelligent species

Solely by our own admissions

So why do we continue making

Such apocalyptic decisions
Form: Rhyme


Apocalyptic Now

The way is not seen
The blinding lights are heavy
Covering my eyes 
Long lines of saints and sinners
This world is nearing an end
Form: Tanka

Choose

Apocalyptic approach,
a way for getting nothing.
Altruistic endeavors
means more fruit for the hungry.
Which avenue do we take?
Who, today, do we think of?
The choice is forever ours.

Premium Member A B C D E F

ancient apocalyptic answers
bearing beautiful beauteous beatitudes
carrying celestial conclusions
debunking decadent devilment
effortlessly elevating eloquence
forever fascinating faithful flibbertigibbets
Form: ABC

Glorious Chaos

Apocalyptic breaches 
can destroy eternity; 
for glorious heights 
indulge jumping 
knowledge; Limitations 
may never over power 
quarantined rights, 
seperate toxins, unite 
volcanoes' windows 
exploding years. Zap!
Form: ABC


Premium Member Illiquid New Moon

signal of approaching cataclysm?
we can't see the gauntlet
it's past the cunning poison
a villain of his own timeline

piqued by an illiquid New Moon
Level 2 risk for severe stratagems
Earth braces for an apocalyptic slap
this time it could break

Apocalyptic Visions

Earths red crust shudders
Skyline crackles purple forks
Famine feet flurry

My willow tree scorched
Lunar eclipse eternal
Barefoot beach walk dream

Volcanic ash views
A black season treelines crunch
Whimpered solo bark

Stagnant water tea
Pungent roots and herbs galore
Humanless abyss
Form: Haiku

Garden of Hope

100 times I have watched the flower burn
That bright flower that watches with hope 
Before the cruel sky sends It's hateful lightening to raze it's roots. 
Still my garden of hope regrows until again the lightening strikes.
Will all that's left soon be a garden of ashes and tears?

Premium Member Australia Is On Fire

catastrophic year
australia is on fire
koalas dying

apocalyptic 
more than one hundred degrees
affecting ocean

year of the fires
devastating marine life
australia crying

debilitating 
four hundred eighty million
animals have died

catastrophic year
australia is on fire
koalas dying
Form: Haiku

Premium Member DUMPSTER FIRE

                          Broke dumpster fire in Los Angeles !
                          Burnt vigorous Pacific Palisades.
                                         Apocalyptic !
                                         Weird ! Catastrophic !
                        Wild fire or something else ! Can you guess  ?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Runway

running down the aisle way, a-giggling
streams of paper white, a-streaming
an apocalyptic wriggle, shelves emptying
toddlers buy their wine and away their going
unexpected per-usuality of a pandemic outing
per chance my husband’s found this greeting
the sun has set on 2020, yet the panic’s continuing...

1/6/2021
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Miracle Triage

It Was Apocalyptic for those mountain folk...
A quarter million pristine acres crisped.
Dozens of homes destroyed by Hades' blow.

Everyone gushed about a bible. 
That came through the inferno untouched.
Stranger still, some called it a miracle.
Despite a dozen people being burned alive...
Where was their miracle?

Premium Member Apocalyptic Rituals

the nuclear snakes
   slither into disaster
warheads waiting 
   in the dithering wings

~~~!~~~X~~~#~~~>>>

light explodes
darkness erupts
fiery projectiles 
  obliterate without mercy

<<<~~~#~~~X~~~!~~~

the reptilian warlords
  fumble through flames
apocalypse waiting
  amid withering declarations

Vulnerability

Sweet apocalyptic frailty
seeps from weary sighs

Punctuated words we love
or love-words we despise

Body-rocking self-hatred
that drags us from the light

Idealism, perfection
thieves that rape us in the night

Car wrecks and too much sex
things that make us feel

taint of success, abject failure
things that make us real
Form: Verse

Stages of Love

Love was born
An instinct inborn
Love took its first step
An invasion of sense
Love was real
An emotion to feel
Love was a belief
An armament for relief

Love became a fallacy
An imprint of fantasy
Love turned into melancholy
An output of jealousy
Love became hate
An apocalyptic fate
Love became extinct
In my heart’s precinct
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member President Trump and Chairman Xicada

After the riot-
With Chairman Wuhan swirling around his head.
President Trump, with a Bible in hand,
strolled from the embattled white house
toward a smoldering church.
Quoted some apocalyptic verse.
Then cussed out the press...
For the first time in seventeen years
The cicadas were snickering
They were not in the least bit impressed.

End of My World

Rapturistic and apocalyptic
Slowly, rhythmically I cried
The end of the world was here
I couldn't breathe, I tried


I knew you wouldn't come 
I doubted you
Like sulfuric air, it choked me 
There was nothing I could do


Pleaded, screamed, begged 
Clawed at my heart for an escape
Aching and tormented
Is there recovery after rape?
Form: Quatrain

Who Are Victims

Immortality upon coming of the phoenix reign,
Presence foretold, taking up the battle to send,
Turmoil and insurrection driving insane,
Mortals into a redirected sense to defend,
Liberty and justice suspending the vain,
Vigor of the peaceful people to lend,
Apocalyptic rumors driving the disdain,
Inside all the victims, that faith will tend.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Transience

Everything is temporary. Maybe it's not even real...
Life, this life...
I think you know, we have already been here.
Post-apocalyptic existence.
Utopian dreams.
Uncertainty at the surface,
the shift in between.
Contemplation and choice.
Birth.
Life.
Death.
They are all one and the same,
sharing the same knife,
to carve out the same name.

Broken Telescope

BROKEN TELESCOPE Hung from mouth hitched to Heaven by this sleek steel blade bungee jumping over rooftops apocalyptic vapors of gas fizzle and spout Hung broken telescope stars have fallen from dark sky floored they lay where I have no doubt one by one they will flicker out © Kim van Breda—4 January 2016

Premium Member Pitch-Dark Rain: Apocalyptic

Pitch Dark Rain: Apocalyptic vanished polar ice oceans’ currents all askew. . . . skylines blaze scarlet comes a scathing wind scorching land left not immersed. . . . waters turn crimson moans escape parched tongues prayers ascend to ashen skies. . . . pitch-dark rain pounds down
For Royal Ninja's Crimson Poetry Contest
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Hope Around the Corner

where is everybody
the streets are bare
so eerily apocalyptic
a post nuclear scene

winter lingers ~ in sunless crisis

a dreadful silence lurks
thick heavy clouds droop nigh
spring may not come
we may never recover

wait… is that a crocus ‘neath that tree?



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~COVID 2020~ 2020

AP: 2nd place 2021

Premium Member Rapture Dawn-

The sound of the trumpet rallys on The composition of the skies was blur Every shallow wind shifted soon the sky's turned The trumpet sound Rains armies of angels on white stallions Descending at the head of them Jesus Apocalyptic Past the storm past the sword Rapture dawn
3/16/22 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022

Headstone

Life may be hullabaloo now,
Perhaps apoplectic,
Conceivably cuckoo,
Or it feels like the
World is ending,
Apocalyptic,
But maybe—
Just maybe,
Someday 
I'll be me,
Happy and free,
Like a ballerina 
In a tedious tutu. 
In the end,
All I want—
Just one thing—
Just one— 
Inscribed on
My headstone
“ I have loved,
  I have lived”

Flying Glass Shards

The mess you made, was 
apocalyptic. 
How the debris streaks 
like a fireball.

The blood becomes 
a sheer truth. 
Moist, sticky on 
your hands.

Up in your sleeves 
the past hed planted 
many wrecks, 
You will not be able to retrieve.

The burnt-out roses 
emit a beautiful odour. 
The phoenix rises again 
from the colored ash.


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

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