FIVE MORE 17-SYLLABLED NOT AT ALL HUMAN POEMS

FIVE MORE 17-SYLLABLED

NOT AT ALL HUMAN POEMS

1

Horror films of the ‘50s

kept me up all night

Swatting giant ants.

2

Uncle Pete’s bad temper

could not be pacified

by a Snicker’s bar.

3

Sinning? A human weakness,

but the gift of forgiveness

is divine.

4

And some believe aliens

from outer space

walk in our midst.

(We do).

5

She’d loved so often and so well.

Her autopsy showed

She had two hearts.

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FIVE 17-SYLLABLED NOT-AT-ALL-HUMAN POEMS

FIVE 17-SYLLABLED

NOT-AT-ALL-HUMAN POEMS

1

Your face distorted in anger

proves there is life

on other planets.        

2

When, with heavy hand,

you hurt a child,

pet dogs and cats

are saddened.

3

To speak of love

without sincerity

disaffirms being human.

4

More than in night dreams,

life’s terrors challenge us

to act more than human.

5

We must assume blame

for similes linking us

to the inhuman.

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