Short Poems

A list of short poems I wrote mainly in a day, the rest half incomplete ones, that I finished today.

Wind’s Wake

Angry voices are as silent as the wind, one whispered word, a deafening eternity

The last line serpentine surges like a hurricane, or fails to unsettle the sails of a flower petal

 

Goodbye

In the fragile shell of a gradual farewell

For now, I must do battle with the creeping shadows

 

Hate

It’s so much easier to tear down the world, rather than build it up again

Hanging by a thread

 

Leader

Only a Lunatic can drown in the depths within their imagination

Only someone who is owned by their emotions

One suffocating on the taste of a world that is not easy to swallow

Can be a visionary

 

Blind Men

Does it take eyes to look tirelessly for a better tomorrow?

I have no eyes, so if I see no evil, does that make the rest of the world blind?

 

 

Love

 

It is easy to be hated

All you have to do is fail to care

But to be loved, you must accept your own failures like a medal

And wear it with pride

 

One Night

An orange sunset is an unwanted weed

The earth craves the seeds of lightning on its breath

But wishes to clean itself of temporary love

In the tears of the one who cheated with the stars

Sharing his warmth with other worlds

 

Twilight

Day and night, dark and light, make a grey world

 

Gluttony

Those who bite down on the world’s velvet skin, eat dirt

 

Pool

Be careful of jumping into conclusions of hate

Those feelings are shallow

 

 

 

 

Hope Kindles

My father is a dragonfly, his buzz as ordinary as white noise

His knowledge mythical as a scaly old poem

His fire the flare of daylight that comes every morning

Oblivious to those who wish to gravitate to isolation void

Blinding a dark world

If only to shed some light on another unwelcoming day

Hope for dragon-born

 

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Religion, a crow’s shriek, hungry

Makes something holy

Out of the scraps of the unwhole

Feeding a god our spirits, and our spirits our flesh, and our flesh our creator

Rending the luminescent demi-gods, feeding off our essence

Somehow we’re replenished

Off words said with energy, renegades’ arc in the emptiness

 

Religionless (Haiku)

Noose's eulogy

Lucifer's crucifixion

Evangelical

 

 

 

I Lust For More

All poets are driven by the carnal lust and need to graffiti their minds

Those who are satisfied by words alone will never taint a page’s skin in ink

My flesh has bared many, the b*****d children you named poems

I edit through dismemberment, your Armageddon’s black devastation

Is the ink I write their names in

 

 

Broken Strength

I sometimes hurt

But maybe being fixed will only break you down

You can’t break shattered glass, or stitch a bomb back together

No one can touch me anymore, I’m incorporeal

 

Truth

My nails scraped the paper like a pen

But I could not tear the words from my mind

Or bury the images

That will burn and flourish in this hell’s eternity

 

Black Silence

I hold an outstretched hand,

Then drop it like a paper weight

And with a dull thud

My heart shatters like a million pieces

 

 

 

Papa

Time did not kill my grandfather

The hands of the clock did not leap off unhinged and pierce through bone

The sands of the hourglass did not grasp and wrap the devil’s rope around his throat

Time never ran out

It watched

 

Family Tree

Just because my family tree

Is not maple or oak

And does not share the same roots

Does not make me a bad apple

 

Reality

Stretch your arms out and grasp the sky

And you’ll see just how clouded reality, really is

Lofty as it watches the population

Forsaken

 

Coming Home

I’m not some immovable juggernaut

But even if I travel alone

I cannot always spare change

 

 

 

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Every flower has its thorns

Every devil has its horns

And we can hide our lies from view

Or photosynthesis our lives from truth

 

 

Author's Note

I very seldom reply to reviews, but I promise I read EVERY single one. I look forward to my next review, because it helps me learn. Even if it's just one word, I promise, I will be ecstatic to have the chance to hear what you have to say. Whenever you write something about my poems, or the themes of my poems, or criticize me it is not in vain. I will listen, learn and be thankful.

Reviews

[Pete]

all very good. deep food for thought. you tend to come at things from the dark side. you are quite philosophical and it is good to ask questions and wonder about things. i like them very much ... :)

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

I generally like the melancholy feel that I darker poem can provide. Thanks for reading and reviewing, I'm happy these poems were enjoyable to read!

[Hayley]

These are all very good -- I think I like them more than your longer pieces. These just feel very "bite sized" and yet convey so much emotion. Some of the lines were a little long, I wonder if you can break them up into shorter pieces. I particularly liked your more "meta" poems, the ones that were just writing about writing. I think that you are more than able to show what goes on in a writer's mind as they create.

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

Thanks, I'm trying to improve on the longer poems as well, glad you liked this.

[Ghost writer]

I feel like you could do a really good book of short poems, one that I'd make a lot of notes in of my favorites and what I thought you meant.
I really like the last one it's something so simple and put so simply and quickly in your own words. I also love broken strength.

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

Thanks for reading, I'll eventually make a second batch of short poems to share in the future. I'm happy to know I did well.

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Love
.......

It is easy to be hated
All you have to do is fail to care.
But to be loved,
You must accept your own failures
And wear it with pride.
Smile with all your might,
Strive against your prejudice.
Learn to accept flaws,
Not their's, but your own's.
Own happiness for others,
And love enough to forgive.
Feel the intimacy with your heart,
And one day when you heart belongs to you,
You are ready to be loved.
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I think I can add a little to this one. Hope you like it. :)

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

It's good, thanks for sharing! :3

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I like 'Broken Strength' too, just I lack words... May I write one using that too?

[Chris Shaw]

These little poems were enjoyable to read. Some of them were quite lovely. Your poetic expression is sound.

Chris

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

Thank you! :)