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Tag: #Shortverse

LAYER BY LAYER
You can find me here
unfolding myself
layer by layer —

the rest
is up to you.

© Jay Mora-Shihadeh. All Rights Reserved.
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April 1, 2026
Vaccinated! #Poetry
approved!

now move

to the back

of the room

they will call

soon

6 ft. apart

masks on

but don’t move

or you’ll lose

your spot

and your chance

to get vaccinated

given to

the next

poor lot.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by Artem Podrez from Pexels

#Poetry #Micropoem #Covid #Vaccine
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March 25, 2021
Witches Water #Poetry
I will walk this dry land

and bathe in the witches water

to quench my thirst

with God’s cup.

©️Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by Zaid Abu Taha from Pexels

#Micropoem #Verse #Poetry #God
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March 12, 2021
The Heart and The Stone #Poetry
I cannot explain to you the heart and the stone

they are configured different but feel same for some

cold smooth and hardened, a heart can become

the stone in the hand that bled out your soul

cast by judgement, by seaside you roam

the heart feels heavy like a weighted stone.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by Ivo Raeber on Unsplash

#Micropoem #Stone #Heart #Judgement
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March 6, 2021
My Fire #Poetry
two bodies

fighting on the grass

struggling yet loving

one strong and mighty

the other floating, resting

filled with angst.

they are dancing

dancing to the tune

of their struggle,

flames

flames of fire within

i can feel it

it’s there, see it?

it’s all around us.

why!? why can’t you see?

you are stepping on my toes-

my fire.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by Jordon Conner on Unsplash

#Micropoetry #Fire #Silhouette
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February 27, 2021
Love Come Back #Poetry
Tell me all the ways to love you today

the bridal bouquet has stopped producing

the answers that feed your love lost heart,

unripened, fallowed, the veins filled with dirt.

How do I bring it back? Will blood run free

and wild again? The light evades dark and

berries redden their face in waste, as black racers

and woodpeckers attempt to invade.

Love come back and show me the way.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by George Becker from Pexels

#Micropoem #Love #Bouquet #Freeverse
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February 23, 2021
Poetry Reboot- A Chinese Moon #Poetry
A Chinese Moon

A Chinese moon revealed a

fools desire

ravenously my eyes bespeak

tranquility is

the ocean-bed

the flesh-plumes velvet

petals end.

I first posted this poem on this blog back on December 30th 2018, but I wrote it many years prior to having this blog, while my son Adrian and I, were deep into playing some fun poetry words games. Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy Monday!

Photo by Just Another Photography Dude from Pexels

#Micropoetry #Moon #Reboot

©️Jay Mora-Shihadeh
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February 22, 2021
Lies. #Poetry
no, i have no taste for it

i breathe a slow breath and

you sigh into the balloon

it expands into a long winded

lie, a tale of deceit, a tattered

worn book you bought with a dime.

cheap lies, dirty minds, foolish

waste lingering behind. don’t

saddle me with this bullshit

you peddle to feed your feeble

spine, a load of bullshit in repeat

eating your young and spitting

out fire to your wicked inward denial.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

Photo by Alexas Fotos from Pexels

#Poetry #Shortverse #Jackass
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February 19, 2021
I Left #Poetry
I gave up the caring mind

it felt boring and wasteful

Do you ever feel me?

I feel you, and I left.

©Jay Mora-Shihadeh

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#Micropoem #Poetry
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February 18, 2021

The Artist From The Inside Out

Poet and Artist ✫ Jay Mora-Shihadeh

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