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Best Banal Poems

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


Premium Member I See You
I See You...

Wanderer, wanderer, lost in the haze
void of direction, succumb to the craze.
Give ear to my madness, so deftly designed;
deception de-jour: aimed to muddle...

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Categories: banal, confusion, corruption, emotions, hyperbole,
Form: Couplet



Emptiness of Living
The confusion of the living
With its sad and futile passions;
Is wearing out the people
As a woman wears out fashions.

What men have taken from the many
Is...

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Categories: banal, life, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: banal, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free Falling
"Free Falling"



You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You

If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line 

bleeding...

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Categories: banal, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
 More than anything Nature fascinates me
Men living in close proximity to nature, I love to see
So I ramble into the city’s far outskirts
Watching ordinary...

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Categories: banal, beauty, environment, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Shadows of Somber Skies
She fell from the light, into a world shadowed in gray. 
             ...

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Categories: banal, angel, dark,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Hounds Are Barking Still
My slumber knows no measure...
There be no sleep for me.
The hounds are barking through the night
For immortality.

I toss them a leg of hubris
And a banal...

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Categories: banal, anxiety, culture, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boredom
If there’s something that will drive me crazy
And if there’s something that makes me insane
It’s just boredom that will put me in shame

Boredom only offers...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: banal, how i feel,
Form: Blank verse
Donald Trump Re Ducks I Goose
Axe the old Don, a trump peter n piper
   of incredulous hellish crud - be gone
ha air brushed pompous ****
   Sunkist...

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Categories: banal, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Imagism
Requiem For Sanity

The outside world waiting, 
Full of sublime buildings and parks, 
As she sits upon the dusty sheets of the bed, 
Eyes bloodshot and hurting,
Stomach rumbling,...

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Categories: banal, depression, loneliness, nostalgia, pain,
Form: Free verse
Marked
Dr. Evil,
pacing back and forth in his laboratory,
had a vexing problem he was trying to solve
How to get the masses
to let corporate government
have complete control...

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Categories: banal, corruption, freedom, judgement, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member You're On the Naughty List
A Parody for Soupers based on the song, 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town.'

You better not shout
You better not sigh
You better not pout
I'm telling you...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: banal, holiday, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Same Persona

Tho’ the soft voice has an aristocratic tone,
the haughty attitude ain’t no street gutter different:
Being rude ... dropping shade

Dark keystroke mood, 
shallow indigo indifference shown
Another...

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Categories: banal, humorous, imagery, psychological, satire,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Who Are We At Our Core
An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed...

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Categories: banal, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let Me Not Nonsense, Pen
Let me not nonsense, pen!
One-liners, jokes, do I dread.
The carnival of forms, far too
many.
Some not poetry, at all.
About as good as "Henny-Penny!"
.
Sounding like echoing laughter...

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Categories: banal, feelings, poets,
Form: Rhyme

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