Short Commentary Poems

Dissent and Commentary - what's so funny?...

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Empty
Already..
That's the 
Nutshell..
All else is
Empty
Commentary......

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I cannot skip 
instead I hop

I cannot flip
instead I flop

I cannot do so many things
instead I play computer games...

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I just heard that Donald Trump

Is making Pink Floyd pay for the wall 

They're the ones that built it 

Seems only fair after all...

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One law that governs
that law is a couplet
“Love of God; and
love of fellowmen”
Supreme it is
the rest are a commentary
and many explanations...

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like handworking lace
commentary intricate
i mourn at its loss
i cannot recover knots
the antique roses undone

5/16/2023...

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Picasso in pieces —
a puzzle, out of sorts…
a commentary slice.
the raw rooster of war,
cocked and loaded —
a worldwide death sentence.

10/13/2019...

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Opinion,
  shapes the 
  aftermath
  of what once was free

A commentary of 
  detainment,
  adrift
   —on a windless sea

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Painters, Writers, Poets live in a world apart
Crazed and demented they somehow create art
Commentary varies as to what is good or bad
Laud the creative architects who are nothing short of mad...

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Painters Writers Poets
live in a world apart

crazed and demented
they somehow create art

commentary varies
as to what is good or bad

laud the creative architects
who are nothing short of mad...

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She has everything you don't.
(we never had what they have)

Sleep is more important than me?
(it's 1 am & you're not my lover)

Why ask if you weren't interested?
(my father was missing & politeness)

I'm tired of trying. 
(interesting role reversal)...

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Atheistic logic



Atheist: I can believe the Devil exists, just look at all the evil in people today!

Believer: So then, using your logic, what does the good in people, obviously indicate?

Atheist: Nothing!





John Derek Hamilton
July 20, 2016...

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In my humble experience I’ve found
The average individual is smarter
Than the average group
But the average group is stronger
Than the average individual
And so the group will always get its way
But the individual can usually figure out
How to stay free

(3/28/24)
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They kill for their namesake
Blinded with visions of righteousness
Mirrored with images of self
Sanctifying, with daggers plunging deep
Crowds gather in loyalty
Massed in fear, assembled in hatred
Adherence to dogmas of a farsighted kind
While master deceivers bloom like orchids...

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~ Savage Social Commentary
      Masquerading as Wide-eyed
           Innocent Limerick ~  


To think in Italian's 'com-pu-ta-re'
Which rhymes, I guess, with 'to fly' - 'vo-la-re'
  Compute the cost of thinking
  You'll end up all night blinking
At Pacman on extinct-squished Ataris...

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The Israelites fleeing Mt. Sinai
    like children at the final school bell

  When the Lord quickened their pace to Israel
    'We can't run fast enough,' they yelled


  ______________________________________
  See Numbers, Chapter 10, verses 35-36. Then
  view Chapter 11, verses 1-3, and commentary
  thereto....

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a bottle of red tea on the opposite end
while a television glows out and into the concave
space of horshoe-shaped tables made for twenty
blue chairs and white linen cloth
and the old man wih a long grey beard 
sits alone among the decor of clean
and bare cloth and plastic sounds 
of in-between game commentary 
fill the void...

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Though it’s man who makes war 
And who murders his kind,
Who oppresses and rapes and enslaves,
The question of guilt’s not so clearly defined
As the dead wash ashore with the waves;
And I’m cold and I’m weary and worn to the core
As I struggle to search for the light,
And I think to myself as the waters recede,
Maybe God needs forgiveness tonight....

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near cultural shock
fall rain brings thunder...lightning?
San Francisco weird

Brian Johnston
November 9, 2015

Poet's Note:
In the Bay Area rain itself is unusual, but thunder and lightning are very rare here. On the other hand, gay people, strange political ideas (to you), super-rich people, and fashion absurdities are normal to us. Go figure! Ha!...

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I Am (IS..!)

These two simple words
Mark the nexus between 
East and West..
This is the universal gospel
Burdened sometimes with
Too much commentary..
This gospel is available
To everyone everywhere
At all times..
Just sitting quietly.. proceed
Directly to recognition of
The vastness of..I Am
Without all of the 
Encumbrances which usually
Attend......

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EMERSON EKPHRASIS
In words, the sign of natural
facts,far and wide his commentary
did abound.A few statements of
the particular,then a generalisation
profound.Nature,landscape and
Beauty,topics on which he was certain
and sure.A legacy of quotations,
for us to ponder,if not concur.
 
Listen to me recite this Ekphrasis on youtube under pen name ichthyschiro...

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Damn poetry is awful! I had to turn off that show on NPR when the poet got round to the line, "Literature is the ashes under the playground set" spoken in such earnest.  If there was a god, poets who came up with lines like that would be stricken dead by multiple lightning bolts from a clear blue sky without enough of them left to scatter under the aforementioned playground set....

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EKPHRASIS ENTERS

Light to light which illumes

as colour fills our eyes and enters

our mood.To trigger stark sensations

colour floats on white,yellow

blue and red in parallel luminous

blocks.This conceptual mirror

meticulous,yet of the common

place, a still life set free in

pervading symbols of the night.

The senses merge to become a

dialogue, a commentary in words...

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News Flash...
Headline: "Pride, Lied... Died!"
The end

by Martin Braun
2.4.2023

Commentary, I have no idea what style this is, but if you have a suggestion, please write a comment.  The rules are simple.  
1. Three lines, one stanza.
2. The first line introduces the subject.
3. The second line tells the story with three rhyming words.
4. The last line affirms the introduction and story....

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Tears in the rain

This lonely heart of mine
Has forever lived upon my sleeve
As a commentary to my life
As I watched the precious ones leave

Building walls to protect me
With my blood on every brick
Rarely venturing beyond them
For the fear....
Of the path that I may pick

When I’m standing in the darkness
Struggling with the pain
I watch my blackened tears
Disappear, into the rain...

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