Short Labeling Poems

We do no favors
  labeling genius

We do no favors
  channeling the light

We do no favors
  defining perfection

We do no favors
  —questioning delight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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We do no favors,
  labeling genius

We do no favors,
  channeling the light

We do no favors,
  defining perfection

We do no favors
  —questioning delight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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An attenuated tree branch reaches out to its drowning shadow in the inert millpond.

(23 Syllables)

Personification is a poetic device and not a poetic form, hence me labeling this 'prose poetry'....

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A Boring Sight is Black and White


A bias comment damages existing faith, garnering hostile ignorance. Jeering knaves labeling masses; normality overly praised; quickly racism subjects terror unto victims. Wry, xenophobic yelling zealots....

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Poised on a farm in Carolina
Not labeling yields “made in China”
There lived a cow and goat
With milk they couldn’t promote
Because their best milk caused angina




Funny, Bawdy or Humorous Limerick Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
May 14, 2023
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Did you just say that word!
Stretch it out to ‘good’ and it’s still bad.

We should stop labeling the wordless
or make the word ‘God’ so small
that it lives silently
upon every taste-bud of the tongue,

but don’t let that smallness escape
      to speak,
for then again the subject 
won’t be worth talking about....

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chose poison wisely 

what you put in the body 

what you allow in the mind

labeling pysician micro mind 

drains the will out of living

and even dying becomes redundant

Mr p. doc. cash box plenty

insruance and foot ball

taxing his dollers away 

I have no sympathy

for such devils

to the pits with them 

and their mediocre dreams...

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It is human nature to squeeze,
to poke and feel, questioning
if imagined or real; a part of
creation, our shared mystery – 
Identifying layers to grasp and
peel...using the power of mind,
sorting and labeling all that
we find – no measure nor weight
as yet to the soul, looking beneath
and above...as the atheist scientist
probes a heart 
to prove his love.......

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Just like shining stars in the sky,
Your traits and beauty held so high.

A diamond`s remnants that are so precious,
Labeling you with greed is fallacious.

You came from the bosom of a great seed,
which imbues love and seriousness indeed.

Your demise is still like a dagger in my heart,
Losing two of you is like floating in vague cart.




Written by
Olusegun Arowolo        Date:12-22-2013...

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a
                                           sinner
                                      cannot judge
                                      I am silent
                                   for sinner I am
                             pointing out no heathens
                               not labeling anyone
                         understanding one heart only
                       and often times not even that one...

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Take my name
deface it
make it taboo
break every letter in half
my last name too.
grab my middle name
laugh at it
throw it down stream!
make the alphabet forget
how it arranged to spell me.
my name is not me!
it does not explain my person
it labels me for labeling
and defines me by the surface.
a more simple version
would be
knowing each other by emotions.
but we left our shores
and started wars
lost compassion in the ocean....

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When you are living on the street
depressed, lonely, hungry, and beat,
begging coins for something to eat;
you need more than a smile.

People scoff and offer small-change
labeling you as weird or strange,
treating you like you had the mange;
every day’s a trial.

You pray someone will help you out,
a kind soul that won't mess about;
but wipe your tears and calm your doubt,
and go that extra mile....

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Labeling
Goth
Punk
Prep
Whatever
 Are we soup cans or people
Do we need labels, can’t we just be
be who we want to be
Without having to worry
About what other people might think
We have the freedom to speech and press and religion
Doesn’t that also mean I have the freedom to be me
To be whatever and whoever I feel like being
Before you label someone
Why don’t you look in the mirror?
And label the only person you have the right to
The person looking right back at you...

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