Short Poems

[JX Valentine]

Y'know, I forgot I promised to post some of my other poetry (which is currently housed on my dA). A lot of them are short poems, so I figured it'd be best to stick them in one thread. b)'')b As usual, most of them are free verse, but the first one is a haiku. (Yes, I know I'm abusing the form, but hey.)

Comments of any sort are really cool.


I was...

I was that one *****
who clapped when you left the room.
I'm very sorry.

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True Story

I woke up from a nap today
At 6:37
On a Wednesday evening
And had trouble figuring out
Not whether or not it was Thursday
But instead what my name was.

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Don't Get Me Wrong

Don't get me wrong–
I'm listening to you.
There's just a Berlin Wall
Between you and me
Made of concrete and hand-prints
With rainbow bathroom graffiti on your side
And the nasal voice of Stalin on mine.
It's nothing personal.
It's just the way I was raised.

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Insecticide

When ants die, they remind me a little
             of New Jersey, bodies curled,
                 heads bent down over the
                         abdomen, legs pulled
                             close to the thorax,
                                     with both ends
                                          cartoonish--
                                                  bigger
                                                than the
                                          skinny, black
                             middles-- now lifeless,
                 silent, still, when it was once
           infested with a natural pandemic
of heartbeats and pheromones enraged.

 

[TJgamer]

I Was - ...I can't think of anything to say.
True Story - Is this really a true story? I can't imagine how'd that be possible. Nice job, though.
Don't Get Me Wrong - This one seems to have an unknown bit of humor to me. I don't know. Nice job.
Insecticide - A funny structure you've used. I like it!

 

[JX Valentine]

I Was - ...I can't think of anything to say.

'Kay. b)'')b

True Story - Is this really a true story? I can't imagine how'd that be possible. Nice job, though.

It is. It's a poem about identity. You know, knowing exactly who you are at all times, not just on a literal level but also in terms of gender, religion, sexuality, and so on and so forth. (That and I was very drowsy at the time.) Thanks, though.

Don't Get Me Wrong - This one seems to have an unknown bit of humor to me. I don't know. Nice job.

Thanks. XD It's probably because it's very blunt, although it actually is supposed to deal with a lot of other darker themes. (Namely, communication on an obvious level; slightly less obviously, the feeling of being controlled; and even less obviously, being judged by one's viewpoint of the world. I can't tell you how many times I've been labeled as being ignorant just because I'm not as liberal as my friends.) It just has a little bit of sarcasm on the side because the speaker is pissed off that zir message isn't getting through.

Insecticide - A funny structure you've used. I like it!

Thanks, but I do have to say that it's concrete poetry meant to resemble a dead ant.

 

[Fire Heart]

Even though those poems are short, they still great ;)