Short Halved Poems

i know the cut
when i see one.
and you, ma'am,
are halved....

Read More

A halved pineapple filled with fruit,
Rests on a table by the pool....

Read More

A problem shared is a problem halved,

Or at least that’s what we’re told.

But the fact is my dear, that just isn’t true

When the problem is your cold....

Read More

surely hate 
being in jailed seat
I'm battling
to be heard
not shoved back into silence
halved to denial


Written: April 30, 2022...

Read More

Calm downy the wind stepped,
Halved yet was the Moon,
Rain lacily traced mid-distant,
Sunset rays interacted
While gliding forms silhouette backdrops
As ideas place the play....

Read More

So many would change the world
  one vs. 7.5 billion, the odds a tad absurd

Yet if you transform yourself and then a friend
  you've just halved the odds, perhaps started a trend...

Read More

 whistling
in the rain
how I love you
so they say
a dream is not
a nightmare in a play
a tragedy but whose to say
halved misery the other mystery
milks silken
savvy
ergo
me
yue...

Read More

It was 
a stunning defection 
in dark.

+

You felt 
halved 
in dark glory.

*

Angry, 
Hurt. 
Reciting the hymn.

*

Legless larvae 
do not want 
to become flies.


Satish Verma...

Read More

At her behest, he'd sworn off meat
"She knows best," he's latched to the teat
      With calories halved
      Poor guy nearly starved
No wonder with steak he did cheat

---------------

(C) John C Michaels, April 2017...

Read More

Laughter and Happiness, men used to say,
Is medicine you should have everyday -
So they laughed and laughed and laughed,
Till their funny bones were halved -
And out of THAT they couldn't find a way...

:D :D...

Read More

Two souls found each other
Two souls wanted each other
Two souls trying to bind together
If only you had the courage to let two souls reunite as one


Name of this Contest is: Liberum Divisa 5 Poetry Contest
Date: 29th April 2021
Reference: original poem is Agape...

Read More

My love's always with you  
One half of a heart  
When they are together 
My mind's blown apart  
  
Our love is as certain  
As night is to dark  
As clear as Romeo's
Ear for the lark
  
I'll be with you always  
And always will be here
I'm one half of you  
With hearts halved to share...

Read More

I believe in nothing else than this:
Your, my, our
Love,

Is what truly saves me.

No deity can heal me,
No dynasty sire me,
Way of thinking change me,

Only you.

Only you can unmake me,
Burn euphoric,

Create
Destroy
Complete.

The stark realisation of 
Being halved and whole
And nothing, if not
Yours....

Read More

Angel hair coconut 
Almonds and pecans sliced
Assorted citrus chopped
Apple red cherries halved
Ample pineapple crushed
Appetizing juice blend
A Christmas friend Mom tends




December 19, 2016   -    Andrea Dietrich's Merry Christmas Party Pleiades
howmanysyllables.com used...

Read More

I want you,
To be a drop of water,
From those dreamy clouds
Falling apart,
Through this cold cold air,
Fastening on its path,
Dropping on my expensive specs,
Making it's way down to the frame,
Almost a minute it must take,
Before it slides on my cheeks,
It's size almost halved,
And when it ends itself evaporating,
I want you!...

Read More

Knowing there are
many words for night;
mightwatch,nightshade,nightfall

but none for the space
of a halved bed,
an envelope starched,
flat with white,
unslept in

and hands devoid of
a trace of perfume or rest warmth,
a gentle curve.

Let him cherish the lost presence

of a drowned moon
of darkness long
of standing time....

Read More

Does it begin half-empty?

No – entirely empty,

Yet easily made full –

That is, until a pair

Of lips sips down

Their fill of cool water.


Now the glass is halved.


Half-full. Half-empty.

Two factions rebelling

Within one army, rivaling.

It is not fullness that rules:

‘tis the mouth and how full-

-ly satisfied the lips are left....

Read More

a feather found
a gift not boxed,  not wrapped
not double-bow bound
a gift imagined floating
falling leaf-like to the ground 
halved by disappearing stem
tapered grey-white, grey-white line
one side an emerald satin shining stem
green paint over black artistically spread
a half with finest soft silk white hem
etched in grey in paralleled line
sent by a Pegasus-like numen...

Read More

Another minute has melted away,
Did I into the grey sky stare?
Or, did I help ease someone's sorrows
And feel glad that I was there?


Another hour has suddenly passed,
Did I ,his problems help share,
Knowing that problems shared can be halved,
And was he glad that I was there?


Another day has come and gone,
Did I show someone that I care
By helping him out in some simple way,
And thus, make him glad I was there....

Read More

I wonder what my dower would  be
if he had not chosen life
A constable -in bag would be
the share - halved  - without the choice

Would  hold memories I suppose
but those we shared 
so, bring me half he owned outright

Bring me secrets on a page
and space them - just so-
that such stuns at a time
could never awe me so

And in it - the design
for such a mystery
and show me confidence in a wife
which entitled him husbandry...

Read More

i was not myself
severed by the scissors 
of my ego
halved by have-knots
and sharp-tongued cleaves
heaving myself
into a state of dis-ease
abandoning Spirit
beleiving it was never there
lingering in lament
and disjointed intent
sarcastic excisions
of truths i once meant 
as if the words "i love you"
were already spent
searching for the Lover
and wondering 
where She went
when it was i who left Her
in this unholy descent....

Read More

I am still naked inside.
Beautiful, trace element 
is trembling, involuntarily
in infamy.

You live to succumb again.
The halved body does not stir
after the explosion.
Lips were moving without voice.

Tonelessly your feet
melt in the steps of saints.
The wounded sun is born again
in the name of faceless martyrs.

For whom the birds will fly
after a terror strike ?
The sky was asking the wayfarer,
who has betrayed the path ?



Satish Verma...

Read More

October sunshine late afternoon
Time hasn’t fallen back yet
Six orange raspberries
Sweetly melted on my tongue
A second harvest
Missed by the catbirds
Found by the ants
A gallon or two of
tiny red and yellow
Tomatoes
To be halved and drenched 
In dark Balsamic
With perhaps a slice
Of hot pepper
Yellow
Not the fiery red
And a sip or two
Of Mountain chablis
Then maybe some
Devonshire
Or Chilton
With that hard crust bread
To dip in 
olive oil...

Read More