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Best Absentminded Poems

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Absentminded
Today I dropped words

between cracks in the pavement:

half-written screenplays.

My muse, a cappuccino,

conjures romance while I sip....

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Categories: absentminded, art, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Absentminded Brent
~Absentminded Brent~ 
(Rhyme)


When somebody looks for him,
they find that he's never there.
He's the kid that people never see
In the classroom, emptied, they find his chair.

When...

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Categories: absentminded, children, fantasy, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Absentminded
Lessons were over
But there was no sight of mother 
Decided to wait for a while
However patience fell victim to guile

Walking down the hill
My body consumed...

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Categories: absentminded, adventure, confusion, life, me,
Form: I do not know?
I Am
I am here but only briefly, 
a believer in today, tomorrow
and ever after. I am a blustery wind
shaking the foundation and a gentle 
breeze rustling...

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Categories: absentminded, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Lost From Sung Lips)
Your e-mail engraves a smile while opening its contents.
I wanted to reply, to share a thought, 
but my daughter reminds me during that curiosity, 
an...

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Categories: absentminded, introspectionflower, flower, giggle,
Form: Free verse



Good Manners
When dinning out in a restaurant there are things you should not do!
            ...

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Categories: absentminded, food, funny, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Verse
A-A - Aye
A- My Letter- Aye

Why- Y? No- A

This first letter of the Alphabet
Seems so simple, yet so complex
Explains my brains, history and mystery
Some makes sense, same...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absentminded, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Storm Is Brewing
A storm is brewing.
Heavy water laden clouds rise thickly,
the darkening sun plunges quickly
behind deep purple mountains,
hiding the gentle moonlight
that normally lights my erratic way.

I meander...

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Categories: absentminded, storm,
Form: Free verse
Neither Half of Any Equation - -
Offerings all-inclusively controlled,

  consummating thirst's affectations

   eliciting truth's darkly responsive swallow

        of pretenses pseudo-poetic poison,

...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absentminded, allegory, dark, hyperbole, poetry,
Form: Burlesque
One, Two, Step On My Shoe
(woman) You've missed the first and last day of memory, 
Absentminded completely.
(man)  Being lull is an instinct you'll never acquire.
(woman) Being what, never mind...

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Categories: absentminded, cute love, devotion,
Form: Light Verse
The Bruised Name
Under the feet of heartless passersby, a name no one knows 
where from, rolling along the path blood-stained; the name 
wounded from time after time...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absentminded, anxiety, memory, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unforgivable
UNFORGIVABLE

Hey Joseph May my dear Souper and poet,
I’d pressed the send button before I saw it.
Three special friends I left out,
Please believe me Caren, Regina...

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Categories: absentminded, friend,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Hay Meadow Creek
The Hay Meadow Creek divides my Parent's land
Its waters run clear and true
It then flows into the Prairie
Along untended Lincoln County lands.

The Prairie is a...

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Categories: absentminded, life, nature, places, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Anonymous Passersby
rock hard ribbons string
cracking cobbled roads
hoards harmonize 
with hidden steel chains
 
fractured silver mirrors reflect 
an absentminded people
and ambivalence marches through

cloaked the anonymous labor
along grey...

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Categories: absentminded, confusion, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blind Fool
Nope you’re the blind fool,
eyes closed to everything here;
Authenticity; 
Quirky and always honest 
always lighting up a room;

So absentminded, 
one time was one too many;...

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Categories: absentminded, emotions, encouraging, feelings, motivation,
Form: Free verse

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