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Arbitrary Poems - Poems about Arbitrary

Premium Member A Knife's Edge Draws Blood
... Dangers plague the rebellious world in which we live Too much greed and vengeance. Too few willing to forgive It's a never-ending war cry of accuse, fight, and repeat We’re all walking along a k......

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Categories: arbitrary, corruption, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dog Thoughts
...He sat with slightly tilted head. He didn't wish to be misled. The command seemed arbitrary, and, frankly, pointless - very. Why would he want to sit like stone when he could be burying a bone? ......

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Categories: arbitrary, dog, humor,
Form: Couplet



Rain in the desert
... Rain in the Desert The desert sems quietly tolerant of rain - not really indifferent, but resigned to brief intrusions, allowing for a brief change of scenery from time to time. It......

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Categories: arbitrary, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy Which lame excuse I exclaimed, when my dear old mom asked rather told me in her scolding voice to tidy up my bedroom, cuz this......

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Categories: arbitrary, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
How Would You Like A Woman Who Is Not Beautiful
...How would you like a woman who is not beautiful Or how would she make an achievement in any day How would you like a woman who is not talented Or she can achieve something through her tough mind ......

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Categories: arbitrary, beauty, character, woman,
Form: Prose



THE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH
...THE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH For some, an imminent death is quite OK Especially if by then, they’ve had their day It’s that or continued chronic pain, anyway But the decision should only ever be t......

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Categories: arbitrary, death,
Form: Rhyme
Shifting Foundations
...We've built walls where bridges could be, Painted skies with the dull gray of "should be" Instead of the wild colors of "could be." Look around you What do you call a failure? What do you name......

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Categories: arbitrary, change, courage, culture, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Doing absolute zero endeavors
...Doing absolute zero endeavors Earlier today March 28th, 2025 (thee hour now fifteen minutes after eight o'clock at night, cuz yours truly & wife paced back and forth from one room to the othe......

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Categories: arbitrary, absence, adventure, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume
... The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa, The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby. He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist, David Hume,......

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Categories: arbitrary, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Seal fin de siecle with unheard celebration
...Seal fin de siècle with unheard celebration though two thousand nine hundred will be here in seventy five years, a mere blink of the eye never to early to think about fêted occasion which mar......

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Categories: arbitrary, america, anniversary, betrayal, cry,
Form: Free verse
On Earth Can Sanity Ever Prevail
... It is really a veritable question of our time, In fact - of all times, on this once beautiful molten rock with sea and sand, We so avidly call our home Paradoxical fearlessness albeit so subl......

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Categories: arbitrary, earth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cold Turkey
...Cold turkey never tasted sweet. If you see me smile then I am probably lying to you. I am so used to that mask it looks natural. I hide because I don't trust you. You are there for me but I think......

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Categories: arbitrary, abuse, addiction, africa, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Production machines
...Efficiency, anxiety Result, vanity Success, burnout Alienation, disguise Unconscious, relapse Control, coact Apologist: own merit! Arbitrary, reclusive Circus, bread Conscious, blurred ......

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Categories: arbitrary, anxiety, conflict, depression, life,
Form: Rhyme
Pardoning unpardonable
..._________________ By this trick have I won, year after year, A hundred marks since I was pardoner. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales _____________________ Climbing down from h......

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Categories: arbitrary, satire,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Aokigahara
...'I'm thinking positive thoughts,' says the voice from an orange tent in Suicide Forest. Since he hanged his alter ego in effigy, Mr T. Hashimoto has canceled all his psychiatric appointments. ......

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Categories: arbitrary, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

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