Best Absurdities Poems
Below are the all-time best Absurdities poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of absurdities poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Theatre of the AbsurdTheatre of the Absurd
Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff...
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Categories:
absurdities, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
Photography Merakisporting a colorful chemise
a camera and a valise
temptations so easily tease
roaming as free as honeybees
tourists hear beckonings as pleas
and capture beauty with much ease
tiny things...
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Categories:
absurdities, beauty, creation, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Clanging EchoesWhen I’ve gone
to the place
where my fathers’
have gone before me
and the last tribute
has been paid to my memory,
may my singing words
crack the silence with...
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Categories:
absurdities, allegory, analogy, death, hope,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Raven's BonesWaterlilies brighten black
ripples, reeds, and rocks below.
An even flow, bane and blight
recedes to bare raven’s bones.
A grave of darkness blanches
In austere light on bloodless
banks, but...
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Categories:
absurdities, beauty, death, nature, raven,
Form:
Englyn
Books a Resource VBooks are resource for them who deplore
Idiocy, silliness, folly. Where absurdities encore
There books no place get and can’t decor
Them into ideal from idle I am...
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Categories:
absurdities, books,
Form:
Monorhyme
Life Is But a DreamIs this life but a dream?
I once wondered to myself, in this life
Will we really find true happiness,
A place to which we can escape,
A...
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Categories:
absurdities, adventure, celebration, child, dream,
Form:
Sestina
Nudism - the Important Issue of the HourIt is difficult to get rid of the false self
A believable mask has taken years to develop
Such safety precautions demand extensive disguising
Dear i ask, why...
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Categories:
absurdities, africa, art, books, internet,
Form:
Didactic
Theatre of the Absurd - FusionGodot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!
...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a...
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Categories:
absurdities, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
A Meaningful DesireA MEANINGFUL DESIRE
Human nature is never satisfied
temporal fulfilments we evaluate and try
these things may serve their use
inexhaustible riches we so oft’ confuse
generous gifts are...
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Categories:
absurdities, life,
Form:
Alliteration
Make Someone LaughWhat is your job?
Making me laugh
Yes!
It is ordained
You are to make another person happy
What? You say you can't make another person happy?
Are you dead?
If you...
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Categories:
absurdities, faith, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Re-Installing Integrity In AmericaOnce the dream was to make America the shining light of the world
a caring and compassionate country with opportunities for all
but after questioning the...
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Categories:
absurdities, america, conflict, integrity, loss,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Reply From the Nonexistentplease tell me ...
what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most...
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Categories:
absurdities, friendship, loss, memory, missing,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Old Farmer's AlmanacOld Farmer’s Almanac -
Goes on sale 9/8/16
Sitting, witch like,
around a cast iron stove
wood crackling
as they confer…
Old Farmers
digging through
the soil of time
gathering the harvest
of experience
stirring the...
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Categories:
absurdities, appreciation, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Basis of BeliefSpare me ill-considered thoughts
and tales of the enlightened sage
whose very basis of belief
arose in palpable assemblage
one late summer evening
while listening to his ringing ears,
as...
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Categories:
absurdities, anger,
Form:
Free verse
A Drinker's ClowningHe thinks to prevail the existence as haze over
And makes his own beau geste
A spirit of ingenuity revived peerlessly
And makes the reality to...
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Categories:
absurdities, funny, happiness, life, social,
Form:
Free verse