If everyone's life story turned into a book
Everywhere there'd have to be a library
Wouldn't have enough time to look
Through each story of everybody literally
Instead, shorten each story into a poem
Enough words to reflect you or me
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 48 Views added 1 year ago
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In a bottle, I travel through time
Send my poems to float out to sea
Hope one day you'll read every rhyme
And remember my poetry
Every night looking at a different star
I recite a poem to each individually
Doesn't matter how near or far
I... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 53 Views added 1 year ago
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Dumb terminals replace human representatives
Staff choices mandated by budget cuts
Voted as functional government electives
Futuristic DC ran by Political Bots
A Congress of Deep Fakes pass legislation
Generated by ChatGpt apps
Who's in... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 135 Views added 1 year ago
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I never peel an onion
Induces a state of lachrymose
Aware the sulfuric acid explosion
Releases tears not from my prose
Never spray a perfume
To falsely taint the air
But let my poetry fill a room
With words beyond compare
Select what... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 165 Views added 1 year ago
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Before it fell
And withered away
Let out a fragrance to tell
It gave beauty to the rose in its... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 64 Views added 1 year ago
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We're all just a cog
On the cogwheel churning
The existence of all... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 152 Views added 1 year ago
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Drenched with inspiration
Each raindrop represents a possibility
Of ideas falling from my mind's precipitation
Liquid poetry
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 57 Views added 2 years ago
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poem
literary variant
you write till you... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 89 Views added 2 years ago
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Passed down the ages from Man to Man
It is of itself made up of experience
Mistakes made as examples taken
Growth of knowledge is gained happenstance
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 38 Views added 2 years ago
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Next year's predicted variant virus
Is nothing to laugh about
Not to be compared to the work by Petronius
There's no vaccine for the next bout
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 19 Views added 2 years ago
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The fate of humanity
In the future will be uncovered
During excavation of a fossil planet, surprisingly
By extraterrestrials, sampling remnants of Earth they discovered
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 26 Views added 2 years ago
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The last COVID-19 variant to exist
Originated in Area-51
Brought back in 2019 to Wuhan China by a scientist
It's why in 2022, humanity will be gone
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 37 Views added 2 years ago
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Inventions are sometimes created, for a specific reason
Like the AI poetry writing humanoid robot
Unveiled at Oxford's Ashmolean museum
Like a Divine Comedy, imitated Dante the poet
For future missions in space
If Mankind wants to preserve... – by Jesus Betancourt | 39 Views added 2 years ago
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A wise rose plant flower
Doesn't let other roses unground her
Her petals won't fall off in a rain shower
Faces the sun, to steal the orange for her color
Pruned correctly she can grow taller
In some French gardens, can even tower
Be careful... – by Jesus Betancourt | 29 Views added 2 years ago
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While on assignment in San Salvador
My contact cooked up her country's favorite dish
It became a food, I would ask for more
For my last meal on earth, this is one I'd wish
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 39 Views added 2 years ago
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A disturbing pattern developed in my sleep
That keeps me tossing and turning
I was counting past lovers, instead of sheep
Like a shepherd, in my dream I couldn't stop herding
Awake now, staring into the yard at a barren tree
From my window,... – by Jesus Betancourt | 48 Views added 2 years ago
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To the Pagans not recognizing the Yuletide tradition
There's got to be a bridge to the Holiday festivity
Instead of eggnog, let's enjoy a literary libation
And indulge in a dose of poetry
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 28 Views added 2 years ago
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I always want to get under her shell
Ever since she became my favorite nut
She put me under her spell
Made butterflies stir in my gut
I now know my attraction
It's her delicious family tree
There's no other to fulfill my satisfaction
Her... – by Jesus Betancourt | 25 Views added 2 years ago
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The reason I enjoyed the 60s
It was a decade filled with experiments
From fashion and hairstyles, to exploring our extremities
And the extraordinary way we lost and gained Presidents
My favorite craze would involve a short lived invention
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 28 Views added 2 years ago
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The Greatest Generation, responsible for baby boomers
Are quickly fading in numbers
If World War Three is more than just rumors
Will there be a Last generation that no one remembers
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 30 Views added 2 years ago
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I touched your poem with my eyes
Licked every word with my fingers
Heard every verse through my nose with surprise
The scent of your poetry in my ears still lingers
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 44 Views added 2 years ago
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In a secret lab inside Salk Institute
I had all my skin cells saturated with chlorophyll
Regeneration of my cells began to reconstitute
To live I need sunlight, carbon dioxide and a water fill
I no longer need a mouth and digestive system
I... – by Jesus Betancourt | 34 Views added 2 years ago
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Consisting of sixty percent water
My somnambulant stroll is under lunar control
The ebb in my gait doesn't matter
As long as I can equally flow
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 76 Views added 2 years ago
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Global tyrants are lining up their chess pieces
Along Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea and Jerusalem
If hell breaks loose, there won't be any traces
Of the writer and reader of this poem
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 25 Views added 2 years ago
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Dark gray smoke replaced clouds in the sky
Ash flakes came down just like charcoal snow
I felt like in any moment I might die
In just how long, I didn't know
I was just outside of Java
I'm sure I must be dreaming
In my nightmare I saw the... – by Jesus Betancourt | 46 Views added 2 years ago
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CLASH !, fills the skies with lightning and thunder
Nature's cymbals begin the Overture
Torrential rains from clouds pebble down, to the ground under
Falling trees pound the earth, with a sound to capture
Power lines whip wire, like an... – by Jesus Betancourt | 37 Views added 2 years ago
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Won't be found under any Christmas Tree
Or deposited in your bank account
A gift free to give, resides inside you and me
It is LOVE, you can donate in any amount
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 55 Views added 2 years ago
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A tenement in New York City
Folks were being chewed up by rats
Not the kind of material used for poetry
Except that poets were the scary cats
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 40 Views added 2 years ago
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Everyone knows how they're going to die
You're just going to stop breathing
It's the When, Where or Why
Suspenseful questions that keeps your heart beating
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 45 Views added 2 years ago
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On Veterans Day, the 65th Infantry Regiment
From the U.S. Army's all-hispanic unit
Will always represent
Puerto Rican veterans fighting spirit
... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 51 Views added 2 years ago
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Persuading the mind of a reader with logic
Is not his specific goal
Rather explain the world has qualities that are poetic
Is the way he reaches everyone's soul
... – by Jesus Betancourt | 25 Views added 2 years ago
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If I were you, and you were me
Could the two of us ever be... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 59 Views added 2 years ago
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migrants
palestinian city
hebrew... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 36 Views added 2 years ago
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The honor guard presented her a triangular folded flag
All she got in exchange for her son
Never got to see him out of the body bag
Her brave little soldier is now... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 53 Views added 2 years ago
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glaze with dry tears
returns home with limbs missing
flags fly at half... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 64 Views added 2 years ago
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Deterioration of the mind
Doesn't come as a surprise, to the one's losing it
Dementia is a description for those hard to find
Memories, when everything was once brightly... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 52 Views added 2 years ago
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Poetic words are carefully chosen
Some not necessarily needed to support his poetry
Even if words are never spoken
The poets sentiments are projected... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 42 Views added 2 years ago
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can imagine
another identity
fool... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 46 Views added 2 years ago
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I ordered a prostitute from the internet
Delivered herself through the backdoor of the truck
Looks like the driver tampered with the strumpet
Buying secondhand products is bad... – by Jesus Betancourt | 25 Views added 2 years ago
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I ordered a prostitute from the internet
Delivered herself through the backdoor of the truck
Looks like the driver tampered with the strumpet
Buying secondhand products is bad... – by Jesus Betancourt | 17 Views added 2 years ago
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As I age, so do my taste buds
No longer savor food as in my youth
Older poems shed flavors of words
It takes newer poetry, to spark my sweet... – by Jesus Betancourt | 40 Views added 2 years ago
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phobia
anxiety disorder
internet... – by Jesus Betancourt | 38 Views added 2 years ago
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politicians
everything you do not read
assume not... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 31 Views added 2 years ago
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chic fashion model physique
unpleasantly... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 40 Views added 2 years ago
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spinoza
divine manifestation
universally... – by Jesus Betancourt | 37 Views added 2 years ago
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In the realm of the Cosmos stars die
Galaxies eventually deteriorate
Antimatter will still matter, it's no lie
Infinity is still something I... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 72 Views added 2 years ago
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attract
dual personality
magnetic... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 43 Views added 2 years ago
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GAIA was in total control
In Peace and tranquil synergy
Then GOD spoiled it all
When he created... – by Jesus Betancourt | 57 Views added 2 years ago
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When my rooster dumps alot of cacca-doodle
It's cause he ate too many gingerdoodle
Snap noodle this poem sounds like trash
Ah foodle, I wish I could write like Ogden... – by Jesus Betancourt | 65 Views added 2 years ago
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counts
singularity stands out
one... – by Jesus Betancourt | 47 Views added 2 years ago
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Blinded by the speed of light
Caught a glimpse of you in a second
Overwhelmed by your sight
Found love is something to be... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 28 Views added 2 years ago
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Blinded by the speed of light
Caught a glimpse of you in a second
Overwhelmed by your sight
Found love is something to be... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 30 Views added 2 years ago
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At any point in time, you can unhinge
Turn into the worst kind of person
Go onto a murdering binge
Unless you remember, it'll keep you from... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 56 Views added 2 years ago
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I wish I wrote poetry
Before my wisdom teeth were removed
I have to blame Dentistry
If I had them, my poems would've... – by Jesus Betancourt | 83 Views added 2 years ago
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Let one more slip by, alive
Despite the Pandemic
Even though I did survive
Don't need to feel... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 23 Views added 2 years ago
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Let one more slip by, alive
Despite the Pandemic
Even though I did survive
Don't need to feel... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 65 Views added 2 years ago
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bistecca tagliata
la dolce... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 44 Views added 2 years ago
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words
unnecessarily script
superbulous... – by JESUS BETANCOURT | 175 Views added 2 years ago
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