Short Footnote Poems

insignificant
i’m lost in this universe
a footnote in time...

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As long as you write
There will be still memories
Leaking through our words...

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Never become a footnote
  —to a history lost and gone

(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)...

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Equal day and night
Spring solstice ends our Winter -
New awakenings

Footnote:  SPRING...

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You never know when 
you’re making history
Each footnote marking
—a soul on fire

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...

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Modern thought…
a footnote to Plato

Enshrined in our memory
—recalled and retold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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insects set but two:
eating and copulating
(sounds okay to me)


Footnote: Goal #3 - Winning or placing in PD's Haiku contest...

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If not in memory’s service,
do we still write the words

To leave the past unledgered
—and by token paid

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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If all Philosophy
  is a footnote to Plato

Then all Rock & Roll
  —is but a tribute to the Blues

(Chicago Illinois: August, 1994)...

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The great American Songbook
  whose words march off the page

Its music now a footnote
  —to a century of rage

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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When Adam was known as Clay Potter
He saw Eve was nude in the water
He went for a dip
Made one little slip
And that's how they got their first daughter!...

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The sound of our thoughts
fingerprints of the time
a footnote smile
in a hand...

And when the pencil draw
the light
a small smell of a bird
fly in the pages......

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nameless,
       moving on
a footnote
      of his 
         yesterdays:
now
immune
  to the pain,
a subtext
    of flesh&blood
long lost
in
fading
       memory...

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The nature of being,
  its whole and its parts

The nature of being,
  its fits and its starts

The nature of being
  the old and the new

The nature of being
  —to me and to you

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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footnote
remote
dreamboat
afloat
footnote remote daydreams so flimsy
dreamboat afloat bubbles of whimsy



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on August 9, 2019 for contest YOUR TURN FOR A TYBURN sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA  -  RANKED 3RD...

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All that was once lush and green

Are now choking on our fumes

By idle hands comes desert sands

To bury us in our tombs

Action speaks louder than words

Our folly's a mystery

Foresight blind and soon left behind

A footnote in history...

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Put me somewhere down your list



by the wayside
just a footnote

another screwed up number missing a name

on the train I am removed
putting you in context.

Take me to a place you make sense,
Loose another day
Screw up my number
do things your way...

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Don't rip your heart open too deep
(All they'll see are the valves and the veins)
Don't puke out your guts in one heap
(All they'll smell is the rotten Chow Mein)

Footnote: I decided to enter this as my worst poem because it really stinks and makes me want to throw up......

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No fuss about it
You being west and I being east
We took the split
With such kindness of release
And better friends remain
Nor once did you complain
Against my prejudice of class
The riled me to let you pass
I thank you
For being so understanding of me
The footnote for no posterity....

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the joy of
         the unexpected-
a cryptic
           riddle
a surrealist 
           allusion
naive
yet lucid
with hint
           & subtext:
a dreamlike
          fallacy
a perfect symbol
in quiet
           pathos,
a touching,
             vivid
footnote 
         to my story...

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Black is Gold
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi

Speak 
your culture
Wear
your language
Profess
your art
Own
your shadow
Love 
the man in the mirror 

Don't 
change a thing
Black is gold
I am omolúàbí
Omo k'aaro o jire

Footnote: 
Omoluabi - responsible person 
Omo k'aaro o jire - Yoruba...

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herds of cows go home
    raising clouds of dust behind 
    dusk comes a- calling

Contest Premier Haiku || anything goes
sponsored by Chris Aectner
Date June 24. 2017

Footnote
A typical village scene in the cow belt  region of North Indian plains during sunset  called ' Gowdhuli' in Hindi marks onset of twilight...

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Ironic, how these wheels of time come round about....
Metaphoric make-shift boats sailing back across her Atlantic
Refugees fleeing their ancient ruins ? Turgid waters crashing skies
Blame it on the revolution but the truth is, they were never more than
A footnote stuffed within some dusty book case kept, amid some dusty room....

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There was a Mantis, a sweet young girl,
Who wanted to give mating a whirl!
She found a poor boy
With whom she could toy,
Who didn’t know his life would unfurl!


Footnote:
Some female Praying Mantises are notorious for eating their mates after or even 
during the reproductive act. Strangely, this doesn’t deter the males, typical!...

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sadness is strength. sadness is love. sadness is gladness. And more sadness is hope and more strength, but never boistress.       footnote - although much absolute humanism,respect, and survival come down to dollars and cents and sense we should not and must not degenerate in an animalistic and cannabalistic society. is this where we are going? i don't know either....

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