Awkwardness Poems


Premium MemberPick up line

I met her at a place I dine
along a lonesome road
I tried to think of a pick-up line
I went into clever mode.

But they've taken all the pick-up lines
I didn't want to offend a date
Should I buy her, her choice of wines?
I spent ten minutes in that debate.

Then I asked her if her name was Google,
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Categories: awkwardness, crush, humor, humorous, love,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberToast

here's to the elephant
      in the room
looks like he needs it
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Categories: awkwardness, feelings, funny, humorous, mental
Form: Epigram


Awkwardness

Is the scarceness of peace
Is like craving for sea water although its undrinkable
Is the scarceness of resources
Is like craving for something that is not yours

Is the scarceness of morals
Is like baking bread without the sugar
Is the scarceness of accountability
Is like eating meat with the bones

Is the scarceness of true love
Is like drinking orange juice with
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Categories: awkwardness, allusion, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Awkwardness

carving their names on the world’s flesh like scars,
they won’t waste their breath on the news of dead men.
if there are things humans should learn, it is how to
leave their emotions out of the equations uncourtly,
Keep an eyes on their flank, naturally and neutrally.
under a worried sky, the wind striped, blood shattered,
not in this rat
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Categories: awkwardness, absence, abuse, adventure, africa,
Form: Ballad

D.O.R.K.Spells a Little Awkwardness Never Hurt Anybody

It is easy to pick on the D.O.R.K.
or the dweeb of society
who is clumsy and meek
stuttering most of the time in his life
Rather spends time with his parents than the social clique
One who actually takes time to photograph THE BIRDS
BEES
SIMPLE LIFE IN CONTINUOUS MOTION
THE LAW
and so on..
Just because he is curious about THINGS that most
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Categories: awkwardness, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form: I do not know?


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