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Soundbite Poems

Please, Cupid

...
    A day set aside for love
      a true holiday should be

   Neither soundbite nor text
     can ever please me

   On a day meant to renew vows
     of forever, ‘til death do us part

...

Categories: soundbite, holiday, love, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme

An Elegy for TikTok: My Battery is Low and it’s Getting Dark

...
I close my eyes, and the FYP still flickers.  
A faint grid overlays my internal vision:  
profile icons, captions crawling sideways,  
the heart button pulses in phantom rhythm.  

Swipe—  
...

Categories: soundbite, appreciation, community,
Form: Free verse

Soundbite

...sound it out
let it be heard
to mute is so absurd
let's hear it out
not drawl on written word
mouthed in silent blurb
to no one who called out...

Categories: soundbite, song, voice, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Soundbite

...serpent
          slithers secretly
                                surveys surroundings
          sibilates spittle

snake skin shines
                         she snipes
savours seeds 


...

Categories: soundbite, solitude,
Form: Verse

Coming Courageously Home

...I'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalis...

Categories: soundbite, conflict, courage, health, hero,
Form: Political Verse

Candidates For Success

...For those who agree that love is success
and hate is failure,
some admittedly unsolicited advice
from low-income and retired voter trenches:

1. Do not only run as AntiTrumpian.
Trumpianism mea...

Categories: soundbite, culture, education, food, health,
Form: Political Verse

Syrian Refugees

...SYRIAN REFUGEES

I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees

I'm watching the desperat...

Categories: soundbite, political, war,
Form: Quatrain