Short Babel Poems
Short Babel Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Babel by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Babel by length and keyword.
BABEL nowadays
global social media - dialect of babel...
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Categories:
babel, words,
Form:
Monoku
Babel Bumble
ladder of folly
human hubris appended
divine will rended...
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Categories:
babel, religion
Form:
Haiku
Virtual Space
Control... no control;
virtual infinity...
Today's Digital Babel!...
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Categories:
babel, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Tower of Babel
burnished ladder lifts
human pride ascends each rung
divine will descends...
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Categories:
babel, history, people, religion
Form:
Haiku
Babel: Bridge To Nowhere
human bridge unites
base tinder ascends divide
blighted beams tongues tied...
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Categories:
babel, religion
Form:
Haiku
Categories:
babel, language, social,
Form:
Senryu
A Social Media Saga
the global village voice -
a dialect of babel...
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Categories:
babel, community, places,
Form:
Monoku
Babel Poetrix
Enchased in the tower
you speak all languages
I confused further dumb remain....
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babel, allegory, allusion, analogy, language, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Dear Babel
Babel castled tower !
fluent you speak all languages
confused mute i stay....
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Categories:
babel, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Senryu
Categories:
babel, allegory, anger, language, men, power, spoken word,
Form:
Senryu
MONOGRAM 1 2 3
global village voice - a dialect of babel
mene tekel peres - calligraphic prescience.
the poetry slam - pen viva voce
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Categories:
babel, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Lost In Mesopotamia
The cacophony of birds
sounded like
the babble of Babylon
no terror
better describes
the faces of Babel
than Edvard Munch's
The Scream....
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Categories:
babel, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Too Easily Seduced
Too easily
we are seduced by moments
thinking they can be infinitely stacked
forgetting the lesson
of lyric Babel
the flip-side of Tongues....
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Categories:
babel, bible, evil, introspection, judgement, religion, vanity, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Trump Bible
GENESIS IV
The cops claim it is a fable
That Cain killed his brother Abel
He just fell asleep
A little too deep
Beneath the Tower of Babel...
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Categories:
babel, bible, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Noel Was a Friend of Mine
A very famous man named Noel
came from outer space i know well
an extra powerful man
after fought in Vietnam
built a famous tower named Babel...
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Categories:
babel, allegory, art, creation, hilarious, nonsense, poetry,
Form:
Limerick
Nigeria
Black elephant in the sun
As the biblical tower of Babel
Hordes of twisted tongues
Infest width, breadth
From Ajegunle slums
To the plateaus of Jos!...
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Categories:
babel, africa, allusion, language, people,
Form:
Personification
Political Babel
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In the political Babel tower
every devil searches for power.
Read carefully between the lines,
and have access to their crimes....
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Categories:
babel, political,
Form:
Couplet
Nonsense
nonsense
a reaction surreal
derivative
of reason
imbalance
chaos
before a new order
a rebellion
before compliance
a tower of babel
resolved into
one language...
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Categories:
babel, language, nonsense, surreal,
Form:
Blank verse
The Writers' Abc
To be one, to be together, we each must think together
Beyond Africa, beyond Babel; people speak a thousand tongues
This is our trust as Writers; Communication - to commune....
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Categories:
babel, community, write, writing,
Form:
Sijo
Unto Babel
To build a spike and engrave their own name
Even amongst the stars, to find acclaim
Rock and steel they took in hands
Yet futile are mortal plans
He chose one man and put all to shame....
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Categories:
babel,
Form:
Limerick
Lovely
Lovely
The way we string
Words to form
Ideas that were not unmeant
Yet meaning so much more, or may be less
To each our own devious end
Tower of Babel raised
Is it not just
Lovely?...
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Categories:
babel, introspection, meaningful, metaphor,
Form:
Rictameter
All Crumbles To Pieces
Tho, they sharpen their claws and their teeth
to build their Tower of Babel , on sand beneathe
as they boast their vanities insane
it will still all crumble to pieces one day!
Copyright McCuen 2009...
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Categories:
babel, history
Form:
Verse
Modern Babel
Antibiotics
inventions for surgery
more effective and
renown – disinfectants
so germs are deadly affected,
yet disease and poverty
abound – we build our
towers ever higher
loftier into the ground...
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Categories:
babel, addiction, bible, culture, evil, natural disasters, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Junk Pile Prompts Babel
For all I know, I know nothing
Who can say when enough is sufficing.
No way to verify what searches reap
To winnow out truths from junk pile heap.
Garbage tower to heaven meant
Like babel feeds bewilderment....
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Categories:
babel, internet,
Form:
Epigram
Cairns
The thirst to tell stories
To understand what came before
And how, stumbling
stupidly
with bloodshot and laughing eyes
we cobble together
little piles of rocks
which from afar
tower to a something other than Babel...
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Categories:
babel, education,
Form:
Free verse