Short Common Man Poems

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Premium Member Fanfare

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              Americana's
      music for the common man
        Touching heart and soul


Aaron Copland's  "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Form: Senryu


Poetic Motivations

What motivates world
are the phenomena ...
To the common man
the heart...
To the bird,
the highest flight
To the poets,
all the reasons ...!

Dark Genius

A common man with bad intent,
 can damage and do harm

But a genius with an evil heart
—makes hell-fire seem lukewarm

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Form: Ode

Dark Genius

A common man with bad intent
 can damage and do harm

But a genius with an evil heart
 —makes hellfire seem lukewarm  

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Motif and Reason of Things

To the world,
  drives the
  phenomena...
  To the common man,
  the heart demands,
  to the bird the  abyssal
  flight...
  To the poet...,
  All reasons...!


A Common Man

A man as common as others
create a story to tell, it covers
with common action no one sees
fore he keeps to himself it be
no other way to change that
and to be him not as good....
Form:

Chaplinesque

and dancing to the edge
again and again,
we watch with wonder
his startling grace
the profound 
sentimentality,
an almost common man
balanced on a unicyle
juggling humor,
and humanity.

Premium Member Successful

The wise and the common man successful would be considered 

If 

Each one achieves the best his abilities allow him to accomplish!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
     18 January 2018
Form: Epigram

Life

L.abour and mystery abound within against man
I. nappropriate conditions for the common man
F. alse religious against the holy plans of the marker
E. ndurance fight them all and brings hope to man
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Common Man I Am

Common Man I Am

common man I am
divinely made within sin
I'm just so common


2/15/18 
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018© 
Haiku
from anthology   “Actually Happening My True Testimony Reality”
Form: Haiku

How Do You Reason With a Unreasonable Person

In their world of senseless thought, I plead,
A dance of reason with an unthinkable mind.
Words like waves against the oceans rocky shore,
I must strive to find a common floor.
Patience, the compass to guide my hand.
Being unable to think like a just common man.

Premium Member Suffering and the Wise

There is a great difference in how suffering is seen by

The common man and by the wise:

The first perceives it as a calamity threatening to destroy him

The second regards it as an opportunity to grow and to thrive! 











© Demetrios Trifiatis
       04 June 2021

Premium Member Minichu

New year has come and gone It's time to get back to the old chores and the grind A new dawn Merriment ceased For the common man who needs work And pleased To take The entire year Break New year has come and gone For the common man who needs work Break
© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Trumpeter

TRUMPETER
Sandpaper comments,
Intolerant, indignant,
White House jihadist.

UN denier,
Mega-tweeter, Putin’s pal,
Friend of common man?

Hair like swan feathers, 
Lips pursed in a brassy kiss,
No friend of Dizzy.

What Reveille wakes
Billionaire soldiers of change.
Your new president.
Form: Senryu

Women

Women are costly commodity.. 

So costly to the common man.. 

But Affordable to the Affluent.. 

Women are currently moved by currency..

They trade themselves for the currency..

To cure their current state of lack and high taste ...

And deem you surplus to requirements when you're sleazy..

A Common Man I Am

Like any common man I grope
And struggle to survive and be
Bold with Dignity and Hope
For life is hard and not so easy.

But this I say has made me braver
My hardships laid the lessons learned
Gave Wisdom, insight, character
My joy complete,  sincerely earned.
















Copyright Cynthia Buhain Baello
March 12, 2012
Form: Rhyme

Zombie Bards

Poetry turns from the common man,
Turns on its arrogant heel,
Stalking away toward the cloistered academe.

Nothing is duller or deader than
Poets unable to feel
Love—or compassion, or dream the lofty dream.

Thus poetry turns from you, from me,
And talks to itself, indulgently,
And nobody hears. Quite understandably.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Can U See

If a poem is not in rhythm 
is the poet a common man
I guess the question really is
does the reader understand?
I can say a million miles 
have been walked on end
but motionless footsteps
always stop where they begin.
The end has come at the
beginning do you follow?
I'll figure out how to start
a rhythmic poem tomorrow
Form:

Premium Member Representations An Open Form

REPRESENTATION
 envisaged
a
basis
to
speculate
on
a potential
to
the
unrepentant
a
 tour de force
of
 magnaminity

exasperated
throughout
strikingly
infifferenct
where
the
bleak
stark
survive
in
the
realm
of fantasy

 an
embodiment
of
progress
in
a
watchful
 outing
of
the prosperous
&
the
common man

Would You Like To Know Me

Would you like to know me
As I yearn to know of you?
You will find me in my poetry
If you have the proper view.

So read each verse, and carefully,
For I am hiding there--
Sometimes a rose; sometimes a bee,
Or a breath of autumn air.

Still I am but a common man;
I am sometimes fierce--or mild--
A father and a gentle soul...
And ever still, a child!

~M
Form: Quatrain

A Vacuous Affair

Blissful ignorance

A vacuous affair

Mind numbing atrophy

Life without a care



Cloud dwelling dreams

Of a world less realized

The pyramid schemes

Of a world materialized



Land of the free

Home of the incarcerated

The money wheel keeps turning

Our debt exacerbated



Before it's too late

Do what you can

To save what's left

Of this common man
© Adam Piper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Fears and Fantasies

Fears and fantasies entwine
to make a whole picture of life.

We fantasize a life of love...adventure...incredible achievements
as we soar far above the common man, 
to a level that no man has ever
gone before.

We stand at the edge of the surf
but alas,
we are too timid to place 
a toe in the water!

Copyright 2004 Beatrice Boyle
(All rights reserved)

Premium Member Gold Toothed Deception

Before I die
I want a mouth filled with gold teeth.
So, when they excavate me after a thousand years.
They'll think I was royalty-maybe even a king-
To fool an archeologist (grave robber) I think is a noble thing.

Good kings should be buried like the common man.
No monuments or pomp-- Purple garments or crowns.
Just a simple pine box in the cold-cold ground-

Soap Box Politics and the Common Man.

This morning I listened

To the simpleton and the sapient man preach

Yet as they orated to

All we who came to listen and imbibe

I was lost

There was no distinguishing 

One voice from the other.

Later as I pondered 

All that which was spoken

Spewed aimlessly upon us 

I knew that I could not agree

With that which was said

By the simpleton.

Politics

P.oor men suffer all the injustices in pains
O.rders never fit in with their plans
L. abour day and night but ea like ant
I. nappropriate weather conditions, bombing and restlessness
T. otal bondage for the common man in the street
I.mportant riches of the economy to the rich
C.orruptions a blessing in disguise among the looters
S. ave our soul we all pray and watch
Form: Acrostic

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