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Best Aimless Poems

Below are the all-time best Aimless poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of aimless poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member On Avenue of Aimless End
In pre-ghost era of my sowing days,
and long before my crumbling had begun,
my feeble goals sparked insufficient blaze;
the avenue I chose was not hard-won.

I packed...

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Categories: aimless, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: aimless, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet

What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...

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Categories: aimless, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black and White
I am like an avalanche slithering in shivering angst,
free-falling into an abyss of an aching era,
where luminous lakes reflect pixelated regrets,
for time throws my canvas...

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Categories: aimless, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: aimless, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: aimless, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Winter Walking Blues
Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...

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Categories: aimless, brother, childhood, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
To Stupid To Care
I've dropped my pen, calamity,
I write too much profanity,
it makes people act angrily,
yet I walk around quite happily.

I'm aware I speak like I don't care,
and...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aimless, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Time Stamps In the Sand - Collab With Darren White
Aimless foot prints mark a wind torn shore 
deserted rifts splitting a secluded scene, 
(where romance rocked a heart between 
painted paradise and realness once...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aimless, beach, hope, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
The My Way Highway
blind minions do not hear
deaf disciples cannot see
callous subzero frozen feelings 
breed gibberish jarring jubilee 

this bloody blind-eyed messiah
rode to town astride an ass
belching barking...

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Categories: aimless, passion, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My Dreamy Meander
This is my humble tribute to our dear Soup member Andrea Dietrich, using some of her poem titles. This is actually inspired by a contest...

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Categories: aimless, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unwritten Absence
For long I have been an aimless vagabond
I strayed far, the world being enormously wide.
Traveling to lands foreign, I searched my fortune.
At the end, fed...

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Categories: aimless, absence, home, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Frog Prince - Part 1
A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was...

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Categories: aimless, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
The Stray
There was a little dog one day,
Who ambled on his aimless way.
He didn't have a house or home:
A doggy bed or fine meat bone.

His coat...

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Categories: aimless, abuse, child, dog, first
Form: Narrative
Sea Therapy
Glowing orange, cloud coals burn
reflections into low tide evening surf,
slap lapping against scattered shells,
ripe fruits for hungry sea tramp's picking.
Itinerant thoughts, aimless as seaweed drift,
scatter...

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Categories: aimless, beach, peace, sea,
Form: Free verse

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