Short Janus Poems

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Hail all the peace sign:
Although at large a janus,
Monolith at spring....

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Coin collecting and prostitution

The two sides of Janus, an institution....

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People have two sides
Like The Roman God Janus' coin
A good side, a bad side
A past, a future
One must embrace both in
Someone we love...

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Unawares of the steps in the future
In ponder I stand on the edge of past
Shiva and Janus all rolled in a one
The errors of yesteryears are many...

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Gems of sunset adorn
Gelid skies of Janus;
Garlands of blood-beads cast
Glints on glacial landscape,
Giving brief warm relief...
Glimmering sparks to thaw
Grief's glassy ice-shards....

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Nigerian graduates,
Suffering because of unemployment,
believing in government’s empty promises.
A meaningless hope on a janus-faced entity
governing sadistically.

A Stewart Annie Everestus's poem © 2019...

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Just like humans, Janus
Juxtaposes two sides
Jared in the same vessel,
Just the name, “gatekeeper”,
Jettisons his salient
Justly potent power,
Janus is lord of time.


Syllable count: HMS
February 26, 2022....

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For Children of War and Other Deceptions

The load of time
weigh heavy 
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.

Janus face war genuflects
craving forgiveness; 
praising its necessity....

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I have a face
both front and rear..
see now..as I draw near

I am a door
to this year and last..
tomorrow and the past

I was a God,
some did call me..
their heavenly deity

No longer distant
close not afar..
I now begin a calendar

Brian Strand Personification of  January...

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Janus-faced, Jekyll and Hyde—ever revealing, ever concealing,
Uncompromising, stubborn yet humble and yielding
Notoriously sly yet sunny; playful and youthfully mature,
Ephemeral in spirit, fickle in love, nomadic in nature.



~June 8th
~08/08/2015...

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Said a passing year,
Janus, look not to the rear,
Life’s lived forward gear.

Still, past’s such a lure
And no less so is future,
‘Now’ grins to endure.

And Janus lives on
In everyone from there on,
On dilemma’s horn!
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Haiku |32.06.2021|...

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Blessed with two heads
Welcoming new aims to view
Review-renew old

Quietness all around
Secret actions in full swing
Impregnating soil.

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May 7, 2014
Form: Haiku
Dr. Ram Mehta
Fifth Place win
Contest: Two haiku on January by Irma, Skat-A...

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She's a goddess, true poetry in motion.
The kind that has you sacrificing yourself in devotion.
Hypnotised, I move her sway.
With no question of acceptance, live to dance in her ballet.
I found a light, a beacon of perfection. 
Then once I'm at worst I find it's lies and misdirection....

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The sky looks today like an old bone
not just gray but unearthed and burnt by long eons.

Yesterday was as fresh as a meadow daisy
it made every eye gleam
what happened?

Did the world grow tired of living with us
or am I weary of these see-through heavens
wrapped in a mare's tail of hades?...

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Trochaic Pentameter

Janus, Roman gate god, welcomes new year.
Looking both directions, backward, forward,
he doth see past time, your future's quite clear.
Whether times will be good, mayhaps froward,
guardsman know if you are brave or coward.
Celebrate this new beginning, make cheer,
take year by the throat, remember - no fear!...

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Janus opens the door after a long sleep
And looks through the gate of the past,
Now says farewell to all that’s been done
Until turning his head to the future,
And walks in one direction for all to follow.
Restart has begun and it’s now a new
Year, and Janus can once again sleep.


By Greg Stanley


Entry for the “Personification of January” Contest
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud...

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O dying day, set
Climb into your wintry tome
And mourn the moon’s shade once more
Until that dawn where you
Ascend the sky in your golden car
Chasing your dreams
And Rule your future
Look not back now, O Janus
You see only your sins
And not your potential
Solstice dreamer, arise
Awake now from your slumber
To greet this new day under Saturn’s rings
For your Apolloyon chariot awaits...

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my 
 birthday
  this day named Janus
it was on the twenty-first
sometime in the early morn
early early on a Monday morn
was birth I was born
my birthday

and on this day now
the creator mom and dad
saw that I to shall be forth ward birth
named James Edward Lee
on my birth


1/2/20 
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020
Written in Poetry style of SEPTET VERSE...

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J   just as cold a March and December
A  always is the month of the wolf
N  National spaghetti day on the forth of the month
U  usually on the 3rd day it’s Festival of Sleep and Fruitcake Toss day
A  and January named after the Roman God Janus
R   run up the Flagpole and see if anyone Salutes Day on the second day
Y  year is new so it’s a new year welcome to the quary it’s January

1/5/19
Written words by James Edward Lee 2019...

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Love is
that magic feeling,
that reaches in like
God's tender hand 
and touches us in 
the lonely places
we'd forgotten, 
had ever existed

Love is
that tragic feeling,
that seeps out like
blood from a vein,
draining from our
still beating hearts,
the crimson warmth
we'd finally found

Love is
that two faced feeling
like immortal Janus,
that will change our 
hearts forevermore,
both in the
welcoming
and the losing...

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Afraid to ask, the white 
   fingers, to write a name on black paper.

The milky way.*Janus will 
   trap the light and open the doors.

War of words was not 
   going to stop. The alphabets do- 

not pronounce well. The-
   rape, the brutality, the mutilated death ?

The mother tongue weeps.
   The masks will write a history, in exile.

Throwing the coins ? The 
   real face becomes a poem, lifting the wrists.


Satish Verma...

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January

Janus is the Roman god for which this month was named,
aptly for transitioning in which this time is famed.
Nearly everyone is trying things to bring about a change
unafraid of resolutions that will make them rearrange
any habits or behaviors from which they may feel shame.
Ring the new year in by letting love and peace and caring reign.
You will know deep in your heart that something wonderful just came.

1/4/19 2nd place...

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There was no colour in the nude
and skin deep fire was raging
not leaving much of a trail.

A Janus cat,
that is our man of polity
with two faces.

Walking alone at midnight,
that is larger than life, on
death of a galaxy, where -

the crack of dawn meets
dandelion to decide the course
of bloody day. They were –

coming in huge lots to kneel
and kiss the hands of their master,
who will leave his signature –

in deep cleavage. Who was
guarding the doorway to
my sleep ?


Satish Verma...

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