Short Arenas Poems

N-atural
O-pen
V-ividness
A-ppears
A-s
R-adiant
E-arly
N-ewness
A-bates
S-hadow

Topic: Birthday of Nova G. Arenas (September 23)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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the hunger gang is at it again…

on the fields
and in the arenas,
we are their prized 
gladiators:
predators and prey;

on the streets,
chilling in the hood,
we are their prized
game---
hungry prey
for the hungry
hunters:

we gladiators
must now 
up our game....

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Earth, water, fire, air
solitary elements to exist;
while alpha powers from 
celestial arenas persist at creation
in it's rawest form
Nothingness,
A blank canvas
Empty;
full of substance and potential
Awaiting a transformation that will be 
a perfect reflection of beauty
pictures on a mantle
Earth, Water, Fire, Air...

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With all the phobias,
Fears racing in my mind, 
I've been falling behind, 
The sight of arenas, 
Looking for an invisible help,
But there's nothing that I felt.

I can't stand watching,
All that people know is talking,
But I dare to try, 
Found luminous crimson wide wings to fly, 
There I rise,
And reach the skies....

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Mister Gilbert Arenas tweeted that 'no one will care'
  if Nikola Jokic, two-time NBA MVP at 24, becomes the heir
    to players like Michael Jordan, who played with some flair

  'Jokic's not cool enough,' says this Mr. Gilbert Arenas
  Well then, Mr. NO MVP OR TITLE EVER WON ~
    You can just go and stroke your pen...(al thing) for us...

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There's a piece of cultural rhetoric,
    That has survived both victory and defeat.
As it speaks to a summary unity,
    And a conclusion to become and complete.

With a simple, rhythmic verse it stands alone,
    While reaching wide and distant arenas to apply.
Yet throughout its use it remains unfinished,
    Since its solitary nature won't comply....

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Why must diverse native cultures clash
Like titans in the arenas of yesteryear,
Lessons of the past centuries unlearned
While unthinkable horrors, senseless wars,
Continue unabated to devastate the weak
While the strong greedily abscond proudly,
Claiming a hollow victory at the expense
Of humanity and her promise of plenty.

written August 25, 2021...

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  Non-performing AI and EV’s now center stage 
    customers rightly outraged 
  Unleash your primal scream

  Transgender men destroying women’s sports
    dominating arenas and courts
  Unleash your primal scream

  Immigration at the border’s a nightmare
    Let ‘em all in, give ‘em welfare
  Unleash your primal scream

  If we all scream loud enough
    the D.C. elites will have to get tough
...

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Celebrating Glory Of The Ancient Olympic Games

Gifted verse from copper-clad rays of sunshine's gleaming mirth
Odes from an era, men competed measuring their worth
Olympic contests, arenas full of cheering faces
fame and glory given winners of marathon races
prowess of those Greek athletes brave, strong and so very bold
winners's adulation, worth far more than their weight in gold!

Robert J. Lindley, 4-08-2020
Rhyme,...

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Urination reigns rains flowing 
Covering the firmaments grasses 
Backing splashing on the oak tree
Nose to the grindstone Kentucky bluegrass
Sniffs out allergens striving to mark a path
Marking at territorial arenas grasp
A leg up Or just a squat
Relinquishing rains
Watch the green grasses 
Now yellow patches 
From yellow rain
Puring down tween a dog's leg


1/24/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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His first poems
Were carved with a knife
On the tree trunks in the countryside
He wrote in prison
He wrote high up in the trees
In Havana`s parks where
He hid from the Cuban police
In his new island-jail
In his shabby apartment
Illuminated by Manhattan lights
Very tired, very ill
In a sea of paper
He wanted to die by the sea
And when the night fell
The death crawled
Together with pills and alcohol
His sadness as deep as the sea
Was burnt and ashes scattered at the sea...

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Ancient arenas
Dot valleys of green
Olive tree lined
Stoic serene

Gone is the echo
The sounds of the play
Done is the suffering
Of Antigone

Daughter of Gods
Caring and kind
Her brother’s keeper
Loyal to die

Ancient arenas
Magical myths
Beautiful backdrop
For the nymph I am with

Headstrong and honest
Gorgeous green eyed
Intriguing Igoné 
Daughter divine

Keeper of many
Righteous and kind
Incredible Igoné
Daughter of mine

October 2018
Peloponnesus...

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Religious conflict
Fighting in the name of God
An oxymoron

Dark, twisting desire for power and greed
Sends the innocent ones to fall and bleed.

Powerful people hosting selfish purpose
Seek every day men to fill their arenas.

Greed and power are too often sought
In the guise of something God has willed.
Killing and sorrow for those who fought
And witnessed God’s other children killed
Could never see Our Father fulfilled.




... CayCay
November 5, 2015...

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