Best Apathetic Poems

Bleached shells catch the sun
and throw it back again,
pearled cup-hearts smoothly clean,
long ago picked bare,
the forgotten feasts of ghost birds.

Waves lick forlorn sands
but cannot coax those dispassionate shells
to frolic in the happy surf;
empty, they choose the dry beach
just out of reach of happiness.

©Faye Lanham Gibson,...

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Apocryphal embellishments of

a non-canonical secret society,

teeming amidst a dubious 

enterprising authenticity, 

exposure's excessed stormy decay of 

  tormented poet's crushing blows,

ego's wild oats fruitlessly sown

rampaged rush to save their own flesh,

poesy's wildflower blooms wilted

under acid rein's torridity of seduction,

hence poetry's infertile demise unto 

dusty...

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And she smiles in my face
But if I say nothing, she is without a trace
She's always on my mind but she doesn't seem to care
A one way love can never be fair
For while the recipient feels apathetic
The lover can only be pathetic
Wallowing in his lowly...

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Creators of thought silent
Palette dry the canvas blank
Condemn believer protect the lie
Rally symbol muster the cause
Search mirror the past reflect...

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Self-worth over colony
Apathetic worker bee
Vast reduction of honey
Hive’s disparity...

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To dwell in an apathetic realm between darkness and light,
not caring if people hear or listen to me, would be a plight.
Being stoical, taciturn and indifferent to pain or pleasure,
when emotions are unsung for there are none to measure.

Being aloof could never be my long-term...

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Passionless I see each new day arrive and depart.
I shall not falter upon any deed.
I betray not
Why is this feeling plaguing my mind and spirit?
I was never insensible to my deity.
Or ever will be.
Listless I lay upon the life before me and beyond.
Apathetically I continue...

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got an apathetic sympathizer
sizin’ up the scene
s/he’s been lecturin’ on the circuit
s/he’s been weighin’ on the brain
s/he’s been speakin’ like s/he’s
been alive, a hundred thousand
years,
like there’s wisdom bleedin’ out
her/his nose &
dripping out his/her ears---
s/he’s the type of hypocrite who’ll
do exactly what’s s/he’s told (then
complain that...

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why do we not hate our self more
a nudge of a beaker taken out of the fridge
its a big red button
we call it switch
Styles with a twit
ch
here before and still to follow
my train - of-thinks
all us trying to be someone else
i'm just trying not to...

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can't point your finger of blame at me if its broken right
so would you like a broken finger or rib?
can't die from the joke your not telling that is killing you
would you like a broken rib or broken finger?
point and laugh if you must
at my...

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What to do? What should he say?
Where will he be after this day?
The monster wasn’t really interested,
The monster knew, he was being tested.
These infernal days led him to ignore,
He knew he’ll walk through the door;
The door that separates life from death,
He knew that this could...

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A few rich dudes
are overlords to 6 billion people
like lion tamers controlling
500 pounds of slash with a whip and a stick-
but what if all the lions got together and 
and snapped the stick and silenced the whip
with a quick bite to their rich dudes necks
ripped...

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Face to face they stand
Brain to brain
Two-eyed flesh machine
And one-eyed plastic terminal
Interacting systems
Inputting, outputting, precious data.

Face to face they sit
A complex team
Driven to perform
With error-free precision
In a controlled mini-world
Ruled by instant communication.

Face to face they lie
Worlds apart
Stark, cold plastic eye
Flashing programmed data;
Warm, sentimental flesh eyes
Flashing...

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In front of impending disaster

He stood there

Right beside the operation theater

Watching his parents

Going mad with pain

A thousand thoughts were flowing in his mind

What would happen if his brother couldn’t survive

The doors get opened

What he feared the most just happened

His mother unconscious

His father lying on floor,...

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Patriot
Proud, Duty-bound
Serving, respecting, leading
Soldier, military, goal-less, uninspired
Struggling, sleeping, surviving
Apathetic, Bored
Sloth...

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