Short Usual Poems

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            I don't always open up
          I don't always close myself,
        I'm neither a window nor a door...


Politics: Business As Usual

This one called that one a crook;
That one called this one a dud.
Neither could be clearly seen,
Once they were done slinging mud.

USUAL



      

            Accustomed to the world
  around him, he didn't find anything strange
 when they put him to live in the asylum...

Business As Usual

Rock Hardon just called a staff meeting
To hear a complaint about cheating 
Our Xerox machine
Could not be wiped clean
So privates were publicly sheeting
Form: Limerick

Cruel and Usual Punishment

A tired Liar rests uneasily
Upon Pillows of the Past
His heavy head, it sleeps in Dread-
Always dreams of Truth, alas!

*"Usual" is intentional in the title ;)


Clueless As Usual

I looked at an unseemly site online,
the ad convinced me that this one is fine,
I searched and found a lady
she'll bring a friend named Sadie...
I just can't figure which date will be mine!
© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

The Usual Wait

Forgotten what it's like to be thought consumed,
Feeling a little rough while appearing well and groomed,
Something on its way and I sense it more than most,
A choice I haven't made already in the post.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Late As Usual

my daughter is on her way
not late like my sister
but late as usual

she will be full of apologies
I love them
proof she is creative

quirky like me
with a splash of imagination
here she comes now

As Usual Again

As Usual Again

As usual again write poem could not resist;
America to me still does seems so sexist;
A woman not time;
Would be big crime,
And elect another male they had to insist.

Jim Horn

Horn Political Poem Series.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Gentler Than My Usual

To pick the rose
that shimmers brightest
at first sight,
be prepared;
for that is the fastest fleeting
of them all.

Let it go when needed,
even after it grows attached
so that its deadness
does not spread to you
and become your own.

Premium Member larger than the usual smurph

.

                    how cool the spring
                            'bout ourn
                             multi hue 

                             hern pink
                          mine almost
                                 blue
Form: Rhyme

Usual Celebration

M-y 
A-crostic 
R-emembrance 
I-n 
A-nnual 
T-opic 
E-xpresses 
S-ensible 
S-entence 
I-n 
L-ovely

G-irl's 
U-sual 
C-elebration 
E-mploying 
L-iterary 
A-spect 

Topic: Birthday of Mariatessil Gucela (January 15) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Business As Usual

Our boss employed a receptionist
Whose beauty we could not compare
Double D cups woke up the knights
As pheromones surged through the air

Her chair is usually empty
Excepting this handwritten note:
"I have just stepped out for the male"
Exactly as written I quote
Form: Verse

The Usual Mistake

brutalized senseless happenstance
 with a corkscrew conscience
 full of cheap wine.

 daylight rammeses unraveling the 
sheets in the morning.

three bottles tipped sideways lieing
 against the alarm clock.

 such a strange cracked nautilus,
 my eyes flushed with water
  in a cheap sink.

 but i will spare the stranger in my skin.

  live until it becomes all to usual.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Politics As Usual

They promise the sun, moon and stars

     Kiss all the babies and pass out cigars

          Wild campaign vows are spoken

               When elected they're broken

                    We should send them all packing to Mars

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 1 in John Freeman's "Political Woes" Contest - July 2010
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Business As Alarmingly Usual

Business As Usual
LeftBrain dominance
is fully over-invested
in the highly suspect theory

That Patriarchal/Capitalist monocultural
monotheistic intent
is fundamental to gospel
good news creation stories
and messianic anthro/divine nondualistic narratives

In which Spiritual StraightMen protagonists
outflank
and dualistically outrank
unnatural wicked EarthFeminists.

Jesse Duarte - Not the Usual Activist

Jesse Duarte
Muslim South African
Dead just before age 68
Best known as antiracism fighter
Along with Mandela
That generation is dead, it's over
Self-serving "ANC activists & comrades" remain
To steal and blame (minorities)

II
Jesse was eloquent; loyal leader & 'spokesman'
"Diminutive woman;" Dedicated warrior
Never about herself
She died today
Will be buried today
Now, her religion shows
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Bio

Premium Member As Usual

Some gates are closed, others are open
I passed them all I lived inside
The postcard views where as a postman
I brought your package every night 
Check your emails if there’s a new
Stifting a yawn you find the one
In haste you almost read it through
Replying with a glint of sun
Meanwhile the coffee smells of morning
You open up the garden door
The flowers grow without a warning
As usual, as they did before.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member "politics As Usual"

Nary earthly idea what needs done next,
each candidate seeks his opponent’s hex.
   Their Agapes are sloppy,
   carnal mistake they copy,
lost in a googolplex of carnal fix!

All their tables are full of their vomit,
very much so with all idle comment!
     We need us a carnal flush,
     right down the white throne a plus!
Carnal greed gone to seed, they are unfit!

For and in honor of Carolyn Devonshire and Contest!
Form: Limerick

Divine Humanity

Ravaged by time and circumstance
Degraded by society
Left with nothing to grasp
But a sense of hopelessness
This cycle continues without opposition
Unless we utilize the greatest human power
The power that enables us to overcome pain
The power that makes contentment possible
The power that allows for forward progression
The power that's often attributed to God,
but that also lies within every human being
The power to forgive

Premium Member Business As Usual

Premiered at Woodrow’s Roadside Shelter, Vienna, MO – 2/12/2008
	  
ACT 1

Epaminandas at Leuctra
MacMurphy’s Head
Outremer
Silent Butler
Valentine from Valley Forge
La Garde Reculé
Count It with Numbers

ACT 2

If the War Goes On
On the Eve of Camerone
Washichu
Apacharia
Stone Cold Sunshine
Remembrance Day

ACT 3

Holding Attack
End Game
Cold War Clientele
Execution Style
New Dark Ages
Burn Ward
Talking Points
Form: List

Usual Cliche

Usual cliche opening line 
A trite and superficial rhyme.. 
Now exposition maudlin- 
about pain or love or the weather. 
A clever offset bit of sing-song; 
Stuff like ding-dong or even King-Kong. 
And, as usual a line to make- 
this thing too long. Now finish strong- 
to alert the reader to the fact 
this poem has run out of time. 
In this space, of course, I'll tack 
A little "AbAb" end rhyme. 
And too be cute, say it turned out fine.
© Ron Porter  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

The Usual

It keeps happening
They lied, it won't change
I'm still feeling empty and strange 

My chest feels tight and I can't breathe
I need to remember to stay calm
But everything is exploding like an internal bomb 

What am I even panicked about 
The idea of always circling back?
My brain always tricks me then lands a painful attack 

Things won't change. 

This is my life. 

I will never stay okay.
This devil on my should will always convince me to stray.
© Brea Pond  Create an image from this poem.

The Best Parts of My Usual Normal

3:50am
nobody on the highway
another long commute to work
shuggie otis, take me away
inspiration information takes my attention off the road
what i have yet to discover is now my brainstorm breakfast

4:47am
my favorite parking space away from the normalistics
another dreamland excursion nap
mr. sandman, take me away
unpredictable inception takes my whole body and mind away from this here reality
what i have always wished for is now my shocking blue carnation
© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.

Business As Usual

Thomas Watson works to cure
the diversity of man
with computers to assure
no one takes flight from their plan

as the mesh gets cinched tighter
behind lines then walls of stone,
dooming writer and fighter
to brave barricades alone

while the cabal keeps gaining
freedoms we should be saving.
Brotherly trust drifts; waning
flags are waving, still craving

blood for profit and order
with smiles and needles in hand
to dissolve creed and border
in culling their grand demand.
© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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