Short Innocuous Poems

Innocuous specks
climb languidly, then streak down;
our world set aflame....

Read More

Latent heat
Seems innocuous
Ascension greets
The tenacious 

Oft the plateau
Or the dark void
Tests if we know
To remain overjoyed

28-July-2020...

Read More

Well, I had my shots – also my booster,
And ain't been near afeared as I used-ter.
Wearin' a mask
Ain't no hard task.
Think old Doc Fauci is a true-bluester....

Read More

Philosophy as a weapon is innocuous, 
               nothing counts as action, 
               but if that weapon
               it hurts the poet's chest ...
               Reality runs down the floor  !...

Read More

Rivalry
             innocuous dispute
             through the spaces between
             the cat and the mouse...
             As ignorant men
             fight for money
             and dogs for garbage......

Read More

Something triggers three limericks a day
It could be as innocuous as a bale of hay
Or an amazing new invention
Guaranteeing love of our brethren
Aw shucks, but I'm ready for the accolades


© Jack Ellison 2015...

Read More

Thoughts drown an innocuous man, found pondering about an empty tide pool.
And 
Tad poles think about life above all else when thee light shows its radiant rays of ascertained enumeration.

3/18/16
Two-liner contest entry...

Read More

seemingly innocuous
seeds of lustful outrage
soon sprouted feral fangs
although as yet unborn
manifested in dreams

we lived the desire
in the savagery conjured
in caverns dark astral realms
which in time so became
destiny in this density...

Read More

As I consider my words, I cringe and bow my head
On the wall, innocuous blood was smeared
Work, rest, and sleep are all intertwined
There are spirits wandering the streets
Who shout for justice, equality, and freedom
They died never seeing their quest bear fruit.

Written: May 1st, 2023...

Read More

Silver'd wisps, diaphanous, floating 'neath the ether, 
flying high like prophesies from God.                                         
Black forbidding masses rumble out their warning,
jagged bolts of lightning rend the air.
Innocuous or deadly, oft they're in disguise, 
it would behoove us all to heed the skies....

Read More

...title courtesy of Victor Hugo


Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer. 

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies....

Read More

Though perspicuous from your tongue, your inurbane words flatter no one.
With their capricious nature you can't see how they alienate your heart from your mind,
yet your transitory thoughts still gravitate toward malignant ideas
which dissipate in rapid secession with each scapegoat that you find.


08/31/16...

Read More

Silvered wisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophesies from God.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
oft they're in disguise;
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies....

Read More

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophesies from God.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
oft they're in disguise;
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies....

Read More

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophesies from God.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
oft they're in disguise, 
so it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies....

Read More

...title courtesy of Victor Hugo

                 ******

Silver'd wisps, diaphanous, 
floating 'neath the ether, 
flying high like prophecy or prayer. 

Black forbidding masses 
rumbling out their message, 
jagged bolts of lightning rend the air. 

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all to heed the skies!...

Read More

...title courtesy of Victor Hugo

                 ******

Silver'd whisps, diaphanous, 
floating 'neath the ether, 
flying high like prophecy or prayer. 

Black forbidding masses 
rumbling out their message, 
jagged bolts of lightning rend the air. 

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all to heed the skies!...

Read More

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo...

Read More

There are days when clocks sleep on the walls...
  that the days seem tired centuries...
Days when we are not discoverers of anything...
Days of innocuous creations...
Days when life is almost like a prison
and we volunteer prisoners...
Days when the spirit is neither body nor spirit...
Days when we don't even wish to unfold our eyes, let alone our soul...!...

Read More

Like quick sand and her looks
Poetry is deep within;
Not until the SOS moment dawns
You realize how futile your exercises are.
With wanton mischief
I entered those innocuous looking waters...
After I stepped in, out of infatuation,
It stuck me, 
no use struggling
I submit to her ... still and silent
Any effort to the contrary
Would only multiply my misery....

Read More

Silver wisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high as 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo...

Read More

Silver wisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo...

Read More

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo...

Read More

We are to receive a gift
Through a method misplaced
Handfuls of nature chaste

Wandering seeds
Sprout for us vignettes of promise
That we may look upon the world through fresh eyes

Innocuous gems
Sprout for us the warmth of contentment 
That we may grow beyond the reach of suffering

Flora, give as you must
Bring hope to a budding youth
And shelter us from loss...

Read More

In your deep gaze
   one day I dived up
   I felt the world overturned
   on island of love woke up ...

   Your eyes dreamed reveries
   but it had a distant glow
   in special strange world lived
   just a passerby sans soul.

  Your look made me captive
  for the promise  made inactive
  innocuous offer did not succeed

  it wasn't what it looked to be
  promised sweet paradise to me
  but instead was hell and agony!...

Read More