Best Banalities Poems
The Narcissistic Neanderthal
...Like an archaic humanoid dinosaur
you plunder through life taking no prisoners,
with your philosophical knuckles dragging on the ground.
You are a dying breed born of privilege and......
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Categories:
banalities, loss, passion, political, romance,
Form:
Blank verse
Alphabet Constructs 3 2 1
...Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees
Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities
Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios
Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires
Echo......
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Categories:
banalities, analogy, beautiful, body, corruption,
Form:
ABC
Self Less
...Self, behind the glass, seldom seen in shafts of sun
pondering life’s banalities, as from its gifts, you run.......
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Categories:
banalities, introspection,
Form:
Couplet
Cigarette Smoke
...On a warm, dew-weakened day,
Watching the grey void of a lost
Sense, anxious moments recline
On whiffs of ancestral propitiations
When rafters regain possession of
Filched roast fish, balanced w......
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Categories:
banalities, life, philosophy, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Anna Karenina
...Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy,
approximately 800 redundant pages
of Kafkaesque scoffing
at relentless banalities of economic and political elitists.
Rather like transcribing often inebriated co......
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Categories:
banalities, books, humor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Letters From the War Pt1
...My dearest Cordelia: I scribe this letter now to you from domestic port, the embrace of our farewell still entrenched deeply in my mind. The morn is now upon the tranquil bay and the fishing trawlers......
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Categories:
banalities, love, passion, romance, war,
Form:
Laid Upon Their Alters
...
"Laid Upon Their Alters"
qhapaq hucha
it begins at birth
the most precious
resource of all
we are registered,
audited, one by one
under the rod measured
by lizard......
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Categories:
banalities, humanity, muse, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
It Was Her Eyes
...There was nothing special about her,
She was just a girl;
Average at the naked eye.
Not too pretty,
Not ugly either.
Just a girl.
Nothing really standing out about her.
Nothing except her eyes......
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Categories:
banalities, angst, for her, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
An Oath of Silence
...What I seek from you can not be found,
Its an overbooked story with an aim too high,
A dream too hopeful to overcome your lie,
Written in tears meant to salt the ground.
Would be better to un-......
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Categories:
banalities, hope, introspection, love,
Form:
Rhyme
New Years Day 2016
...Commodities calmly caressing. Calling carrots. Calling capers. Calamity is not an injested window wiper nor a window sill so dare to jump off a pinnacle to declare justice. Arachnid akmed. Duty done.......
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Categories:
banalities, age, angel, new years
Form:
Stuck In Place, Free In Space
...Descending war pile on my threadbare past or
I’m losing my grace, for the puzzle’s not solved or
My gallant blessing is never done working or
My ideas are like heaviness across blinding sky or
My oas......
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Categories:
banalities, allegory, angst, confusion, hope,
Form:
An Afternoon Interlude
...An Afternoon Interlude.
It is a quiet afternoon, with the quiet burr of a furiously rotating overhead fan...
This office is empty, fellow workers are all off their posts for their lunch...
There......
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Categories:
banalities, care, community, confusion, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Paired, With Reservations
...Paired, With Reservations
The soft curve of her spirit-
Her true shape only emergent after countless
Half-glances in the half-light of morning’s edge.
What line is drawn by the knife-edge of t......
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Categories:
banalities, friendship, life, love, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Barons of Bees
...A hippopotamus in a tree is never the same as a forty foot sunbathing prawn with sunglasses. For in the eyes of the cool breeze not all can be delivered as speedily as a fish and chip tea on a promen......
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Categories:
banalities, animal, baby, birthday, ,
Form:
Trump
...Trump
A week is a long time in politics it also a long time in an old man`s life
who knows it can end when he sleeps; I say that and think of suicide
watching the entertainment on Portuguese T......
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Categories:
banalities, betrayal, birthday,
Form:
Blank verse