Short Babylon Poems

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Premium Member Idols

Grand basilicas
built to papal false idols
of graven image -
to apostate relics from
pagan Rome and Babylon!
Form: Tanka


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.

Premium Member Bestial Beds - Mar 6

Babble on, Babylon!— The bell is bellowing 
Its booming bane! Bastards and baseborn bumblers 
Beware, and beg bitterly for better 
Birth above! O’ you bashful, bawdry bunch!

The Gardens of Babylon

Smoke on the water or dust in the wind,
Rain has been purple since innocence sinned.
The levee is dry and the spirit retired,
But song-writing seamstresses still seem inspired.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

PEACE AND LOVE

Man, a Rasta 
Screw them Babylon
No more bondage 
I and I guidance
Zion my portion 
Selassie my saint
Roots my culture
One love my anthem
JAH RASTAFARI

   Surviving_Pawn
Form: Madah


Premium Member The Criminal History of Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
ordered marinara with parmesan.
When he finished up his plate,
he burped and hopped a southbound freight.
Writing history can be a crime,
when you insist that it must rhyme.
Form: Rhyme

Lost In Babylon

Only the heartless 
are blind to serenity
Lost in the darkness
away from the light

Only tomorrow
releases the past
The sins of the father
— yesterday’s blight 

(Ronald McDonald House: October, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

The Lion Of Babylon

The only thing
that changes
is perspective

The only thing
envisioned
sight unseen

The only thing
that’s lasting
stays redundant

The only thing 
that lingers
— is a dream

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

The Ifs of Life

The Ifs of Life

Daddy always used to say:

Ifs are like the tower of Babylon,
They can’t get you anywhere.
Only by the  facts of a life can one get
From here to there.  


A verse from my poem,  “Daddy Always Used To Say.”

I Am My Brother's Keeper

Faith
Hope and
Charity, 
An eye single 
To glory of God,
Qualifies each person
For the work of salvation
For all his brothers and sisters
Caught in traps of never ending sin,
Trying to find escape in Babylon.
Form: Etheree

Ancient Glory Lost

Swords will clamp,
Rome will stand.
Shields will block,
Greece will fall.
Armageddon will burn,
Babylon will be torn.
America is in a den,
Russia looks to reign...
Korea is the lion
Ready to pounce
On all we call world power!

Jujitsu Tournament

Tigers of babylon draw tight
Power atlas at its brazen right
Strings and limbs, we can use these things

Explosive hips happen in flight
But all that grasps stays in sight
From shoulder to core declaration 
On this mat we make a firm statement

Strictly Bc

YOU thought god had changed
given his son to forgive us all
no god is still violently destroying mankind
abusing our tiny souls with his power
we are operating on strictly BC frequencies
babylon shall fall
i cannot  see the point of it all

The Minstrels, the Lovers, and the Mad

the minstrels
the lovers
and the mad

dare to explore
where others fear
to tread

we wish on falling
stars
not knowing where they
land

a million miles to
Babylon
a journey
unknown

paradise awaits
those who dare
to walk
alone
© Adam Piper  Create an image from this poem.

Zombies

ZOMBIES

Zodiac Babylon. 
Zombies resurrected. 
Ziggurat, stiff like stone. 
Zigzag, shuffle, shamble. 
Zipless undead flesh wraiths. 
Zestless, yet voracious. 
Zeroed in on my brain!


Pleiades Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
9/22/2025
Form: Pleiades

Busted

Anger, purer than dark chocolate
A seat, right next to the agitator, yet still underneath
Our system is not working.
We are busted, building Babylon,
and now the essence is dust,
all in my eyes, causing tracing, 
all in my mouth, causing

silence.

Falling Rain

Poet:   Ken Jordan
Poem:  Falling Rain
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  December/2014


God
suspends
the 
sun today -

casting
His
shadow

over
the
Earth -

His
Holy Tears

falls down
on
Babylon,

to rid
the 
world 

from
Sin -
© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Of Rome It Is Said

of Babylon it's written
of Rome it is said
of Athen's glory it's recounted
of Egypt's pharaohs long dead
   Anaheim's alive
   Dallas, dynamic
   Phoenix is rising
   Portland is panoramic
we pay homage to what was; overlook what glistens, the aerodynamic

On Jungle Grass

There on the brown jungle grass

We lie hemmed by moonlit horse

Deep sounds of drum from afar

Babylon breath dense and coarse
____________________________
23 March, 2017
[Qijue - 4 lines, 7 syllables each]
Contest: Form ‘J’ Jueju 
Sponsor: Broken Wings
Form: Jueju

Premium Member By the river of Babylon

The clock strikes midnight
under a moon that's bright.
A summer breeze carries a perfume
from jasmine in early bloom
and I walk the beach wishing
you were here within reach.
Eyes locked, hand in hand,
leaving footsteps in the sand



AP: 1st place 2026
Form: Rhyme

What I Imagine Blake Might Have Said Today

We behold thy gardens fair.
Say, to what do they compare?
And yet thy airs of fire and fume
have filled the world with noise of doom.
The sceptered isle that Shakespeare saw,
or Satan's realm by Milton's lore?
Jerusalem or Babylon,
Say, which art thou, Albion?
Form: Rhyme

Be My Lover

Be,
The ocean inside me,
be my homemade beast ...
that I will be your domestic
tiger...
Dance for me as if
it was Babylon ...
that I will donate you all
sprouting melodies of my body,
and all the luminescence of my soul ...
Then you will be my immense love!

Premium Member The Peace Behind Ethnicity

someone asked me to define the peace of ethnicity
I am just a Mahogany child
of Babylon
sitting in my tree
my grandfather planted this tree
I am sitting in my grandfather's tree
eating a strawberry
reminiscing
that is what peace looks like to me
I am ethnicity.

Jerusalem Or Babylon

We behold thy gardens fair.
Say, to what do these compare?
And yet thy airs of fire and fume
have filled the earth with noise of doom.
The sceptered isle that Shakespeare saw,
or the Satanic mills of Blakean lore?
Jerusalem or Babylon,
Pray, which art thou, Albion?
Form: Couplet

Wonders In History 1

Great Pyramid Of Giza
 Hanging Gardens Of Babylon
Temple Of Artemis
 Statue Of Zeus At Olympia
Mausoleum At Halicanassus
 Colossus Of Rhodes
Lighthouse Of Alexandria

Author;Free Software Foundation
Compiled by;chipepo lwele

PS;The reminder of the 7 Wonders Of
     The Ancient World.
Form: Narrative

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