Short 1984 Poems

50 Shades of Gray

1984

He lied...

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Domestic spying
striking similarities
1984...

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Nineteen eightyfour
Orwell’s long sighted book
Casting Big Brother....

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Night school black box books 
Human pulpits long 1984 words
Phrased echoes in time...

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The clocks strike thirteen,
On one mans futile efforts,
To rebel against his world....

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George Orwell famed for Animal Farm
loved gardening to keep him calm
So he wrote his satire 1984
the year passed,& became days of yore...

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The Monitor

Behind The Painting

Watches Our Love.



From the Book/Movie "1984" by George Orwell
for the Senryu movie book scene contest....

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One day, I thought a man, 

it got to a vicious battle, there was blood everywhere,

But I was too weak, 

I lost to the man.

Then I became that man....

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   Ever since I can remember, back to 1954
     seems there’s been perpetual war

   Where have I seen that before
     ~ Why, in George Orwell’s ‘1984!’ 

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SHOCK

Switched from hot to cold,-
my blood felt iced and my body
lie down in bed as if I was dead.

Poetic Judy Emery © 1984
The Queen Of Darken Dreams Poetic Lilly Emery...

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The era of mass surveillance
Is upon us
1984 prophecies fulfilled
But so many more big brothers
Watching us everywhere
The eyes in the sky monitor us
24/7 no one can escape the police state....

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Propaganda all day everyday filled the air and minds:
weak minds read only headlines and never ever dared delve further;
strong minds dared asked what is truth, and finding truth, were canceled....

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George Orwell, born in India and first named Eric Blair,
knew poverty and sickness, so he knew life could be unfair.
“Animal Farm” and “1984” brought him great fame.
For his critical profundity, we recall his name....

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Orwell and Alinski both saw the 
here and now.
Sal, he wrote a manual,
George wrote a story bout a 
farmer and some pigs,
That both forgot to milk the 
cow
One went door to door
The other went high brow
Both told us what would 
happen 
Both also told us how
It was "radical" in "1984"
It's factual right now...

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Spin, spin is no sin they say
Political correctness ,must win the day
Group think of politicians who claim
to know best
Conform,conform, be subject to their will
is always their quest
These limousined elite ,
the subject of my political tale

Enfranchisement and freedom
has , and will always prevail...

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A mother strives to love her child,
To shield it from the woes and cares,
The strife and hardship man endures.

The world is full of traps and snares
That Mother always frights away,
The evil beast that haunts our dreams.

We run to her in times of need
But turn away when she needs us. 

March 1984...

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Those motel memories return.
The colored comic pages opened first
And water bubbling in an urn
And powdered coffee slaking my communion thirst.

Montana windswept plains outside.
Stark desolation’s existential rites within.
But earth I’ve trekked since then rolls wide:
And prayer, not newsprint, now assuages sin....

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My love,  
helps me understand 
she's so wonderful
 Isle of vera
 you hold my hand
My love helps me to understand 
Your my love and you help me to understand
life can be so cruel always convincing me I'm the fool
My love helps me understand

6/24/84

Written word by James Edward Lee Sr 1984, 2010...

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In 1984 Peter Finan and Neil Smith played Scrabble at college
They played it for one hundred and fifty-three hours
Setting a new record.

The word Oxyphenbutazone would be worth 1751 points
As far as we know, it has never been played.
For good reason.
It would take the entire length of a board.
And we only get seven letters at a time....

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Today I saw people walking,
Holding hands, and talking --
Lovers, in quiet places,
Exchanging smiling faces --
And I missed you so!

I felt a hint of envy
Rise up from deep within me.
Alone, in an asphalt countryside,
Today. I bowed my head and cried --
Because I missed you so!


Written by John Posey 

circa 1984...

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There was a solar eclipse today.
Only partial, but enough to make you want to look.
It made me sad.
I didn't have a piece of smoked glass or ultra-dark Ray Bans, and certainly not a solar scope.
Looking up, I saw the sun flash through leaf-made pinholes waving in the breeze.
Disappointed, I looked down,...
and discovered a thousand crescent suns dancing at my feet....

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My man, my sons
Weeping,
do not you shun
lay your head upon my breast
and with my arms
you I will caress
Turn your frustrations
from anger to tears
your still my strong man
please have no fear
For it is only a lie
that a man is not to cry
My sons, my man
weep hard
weep hard as you can
weep weep
for you will find
a brighter day and a pleasant sleep
C. 1984...

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Just a quick look
First chapter of a book
First verse of a song
Can’t stay overlong

A 50-yard dash
Gone in a flash
Not right, not wrong
Can’t stay overlong

A heat seeking missile
God blows the whistle
God strikes the gong
Can’t stay overlong...

*Dedicated to my brother Ivan who lost his life on an airline training flight in 1984. 'Hunter' was his middle name......

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I said, "They're opportunists"
			when just a few accused,
			but  soon a throng of sixty-plus
			cried out, "We've been abused!"

			His reputation's gone to pot.
			Cliff Huxtable--he's not.

29 words         written for the Fallen in 25-30 Words Poetry Contest


Bill Cosby played Dr. Cliff Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" (1984-92).



Janice Canerdy     December 1, 2015...

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“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
 that’s what someone once assured.
But that’s a fallacy it seems
when wars still haunt men’s hopes and dreams.    

Mutually Assured Destruction’s an insane solution
Come now - its positively Luciferian 
particularly in the hands of  psychopaths
Time to do the impossible maths

Man is wired for endless war
The bluprint written in - 1984....

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