Short Unrolls Poems

accolade revealed -
Spring unrolls wildflower carpet
children welcomed home

Brian Johnston
March 15, 2016...

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After knowing so much 
of unknown, 
you were afraid, but I 
lunge for the relic.

How far you will sink 
in the depth of cries ? 
The moon will not- 
offer her lips.

Light will not give you 
the vision. A sin unrolls. 
The city burns in its- 
own garbage.

As soon as the water 
dries, eyes will blink- 
to nail down the constellation 
in fog. The tongues retreat.


Satish Verma...

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Another workday
at the community college
    I taste the 
day as it unrolls
          Students, professors walking 
around
   Equations on a board
    Dull day 
Bu suddenly - a flash of poetry on the internet enlightens!
   Words are so powerful 
If carefully wrought
  Life can kick on down 
But poetry can lift one 
    into new realms of thinking 
     New dawns, new loves
Poetry - peace - energy - joy!...

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Listen to poem:

black clouds threaten in rumbling roars
and thunderous waves across the hills
life unrolls the worst it has to offer

and in our innocence we wonder
what has made the gods so angry
that our illusions so easily be crushed

dreams extinguished as castles crumble
grown men falling to their knees
cursing both sun and moon above

and again we ask what has made the gods so angry



AP: Honorable Mention 2023
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The shepherd unrolls his bedding,
Too late to get back home,
He must lie, his head on desert rock,
‘Til the raising of the dawn.

He wonders what he cannot see
Behind the stars that shine above,
Does his mother look down on him,
With her old tenderness and love.

Does the wind catch the sound of tambourines,
Are there gauze-draped dancers twirling?
Such were the dreams of a shepherd,
Before the universe went swirling....

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“To love, or not to love?” that is the point,
the focus which men lose beyond disjoint.
To be a god among men, and unloved,
is woe: even wild beasts are not unmoved
by these fragmented, lone, unearthly souls,
for whom the scroll of history unrolls.
Man, being so much better than feral beasts,
should eschew (and end!) the vile, evil feasts
of his ire: then love these wide-browed seers, men
and women like the wielder of this pen.

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Schnauzer In Wonderland

Down a hole tumbles my dear schnauzer Sean
Chasing White Rabbit, oh no, you’re gone!
Now the kind Chesire Cat
Unrolls a welcome mat
As my friend joins a wonderous egg hunt at dawn

All mimsy are the borogroves, Sean howls out with joy
The guest of honor’s loved by every girl and boy
Eggs aglow, a heavenly hue
Every schnauzer’s dream come true!
I miss you pooch but have a good life and enjoy
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Somewhere between when sleep overtakes
and then when I'm not really awake
as if on a film running through my head
the reel unrolls a story unfolds
and I never lose the thread
tho' the plot may be somewhat bizarre
from whence I know not yet never forgot
I find words appear in my mind
from way over yonder out of the blue
and somehow in time I make them rhyme
they're fun for me a game to play with
hope reading them is the same for you
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