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Banalities Poems - Poems about Banalities

Premium MemberART APPRAISAL S twinku

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HOOGSTRATEN

eyecatching

interiors

DALI

bizarre

banalities

DUCHAMP

basic

necessities

TWINKU a double word distich with integral title

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Categories: banalities, art,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberIn the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances

...In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances,
Their ephemeral steps leave traces on the sands of passing time,
Their dreams, like night butterflies, crash into closed windows,
While the s...
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Categories: banalities, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



drink wine

...Remember this poets, drink wine,
It is not talent that is important,
It is to have heart, drink wine,
Offer a drink to a friend or student

Make your friends, young and new, cry
Speaking of the...
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Categories: banalities, poetry, wine,
Form: Free verse

Eckes’s Poem

...The poet, like many in education’s grip,
Faces another summer with pockets stripped.
In Eckes’s poem, two forms meet face to face:
The unemployment office, a dreary place.

Insults and banalitie...
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Categories: banalities, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

light reading

...Light reading

We are striding into the new year with news 
of an earthquake that got people to sit up instead 
of slumping on the sofa watching a Netflix 
banalities
Inundated with film, one r...
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Categories: banalities, 9th grade, allusion, beauty,
Form: Blank verse



The Truyth Moment

...The truth moment

Memories are broken mirrors on 
which the sun shines
the enduring illusion
 sprinkled with the rest of my childhood
 The dreamy imagined what ensued 
or was at the time
kism...
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Categories: banalities, absence, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse

Laid Upon Their Alters

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"Laid Upon Their Alters" 

qhapaq hucha 
it begins at birth
the most precious 
resource of all

we are registered,
audited, one by one
under the rod measured
by lizard...
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Categories: banalities, humanity, muse, perspective,
Form: Narrative

Autumnal Reflection

...Autumnal reflection 

This is beautiful autumn, with no rain, no wind and no heat
soothing calm telling nothing about coming storms.
South Korea has solved the problem of what is needed
garish c...
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Categories: banalities, allusion, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Chant Royal

Premium MemberSilent Voices of God

...Like calm breezes sweep through the trees,
The silent voices of God caress our souls
Sometimes with a rustle that startles us
Reminding us again who is at the controls.

When least w...
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Categories: banalities, change, god, uplifting, voice,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberRevolution's Peace Perspectives

...Go ahead
Dare to invite him
to a climaxing fall-colored picnic

To read you his obituary for himself
and for you,
subject to future updating
round perspectives
free for changing
still-evolvi...
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Categories: banalities, conflict, courage, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse

Crossed Lines

...Crossed lines 
 Why are quiet evenings not enough
the mind will not slow down or make sense 
in the blinking light of thoughts.
Wine is of no use the brain turns into ruby.
I must hurry, catch t...
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Categories: banalities, age, anger, betrayal, class,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberMindset

...Hemispheric balance
We sing the sum of its parts
mindfully engaged 
Left—concrete banalities 
Right—creative dimensions...
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Categories: banalities, birth, creation, identity, imagination,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberMy Choice Organic

...fixity or flux
in the
 evasion of monotony
a linear turn
    to integrity
in phrasal inflections
scanning language
         in signature verse

internal sounds
     made prominent with
div...
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Categories: banalities, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberOrganic Happenings

...fixity or flux
in the
 evasion of monotony
a linear turn
    to integrity
in phrasal inflections
scanning language
         in signature verse

internal sounds
     made prominent with
div...
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Categories: banalities, poetry,
Form: Verse

We Are Not Alone

...People like us cannot feel aloud
We hold the world's pain within our own
To mask the anxiety in our words, in our thoughts

We talk about spring and joy
Like we understand where it comes from
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Categories: banalities, dark, depression, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse

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