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Best Banality Poems

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Premium Member Underground Art Montmartre
soak up the side streets of Montmartre, 
Paris, 	Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy
class less 	art combusts	then drips 

- street beggars & tourists cant

writer Rubbish pastes...

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Categories: banality, art,
Form: Free verse



Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: banality, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member supernova -
you ...

redeemed me
from the belly of a star
ripped me ragged from a
hydrogen-helium core
spinning, divergent, toward sentience
from solitude ... howling
I did not ask for that existence
the...

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Categories: banality, analogy, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting...

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Categories: banality, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Born Defective
I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past, 
very proudly they'll exalt.

Woman so pretty as blow-up doll, 
got so many...

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© Eva Soup  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: banality, community, identity, immigration, political,
Form: Free verse



Just a Shadow
Don’t speak to me with banality.
My expectations reach further aloft.

Trite expression perverts
your true presentation.

Long dead to me,
you cannot resurrect
trust with promise.

Due diligence has
put to death...

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Categories: banality, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Incessant Talkers Bother Me
incessant talkers bother me.
I leave the room upon their arrival,
not caring if I hurt their feelings, for I know they
do not notice, it always being...

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Categories: banality, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Poetic Definition
by Michaelw1two

 Poetic writes speak volumes too,
 this profound nature of humanity;
 expression’s glyph or determination’s rift,
 each soothing rhyme or base profanity;
 provoke of...

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Categories: banality, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 16 Year Old Dad
Juvenile delinquency has exposed growth to the fiddle
time fastens for maturity to face this compulsory wheedle.

How long and straight forward is this short cut to...

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Categories: banality, age, boy, care, child,
Form: Couplet
Apotheosis
idealism of youth

mélange of 
dreams and prayers—
disparate yet intertwined—
assembled in their thunderous ranks
to echo past myriad
gleaming colonnades that
buttress evermore eternity

self-betrayal and realization

stolid mind shattered
by coruscant...

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Categories: banality, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Happy Birthday
FOR MA’RUFAH ODETUNDUN
Humanitarianism, humility...be your professed mien, Hajiah.
Although sceptics abound everywhere with satirical sarcasm,
Project a sanguine character, prophylaxiating stray focusedness;
Perhaps all their perspiration will drain...

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Categories: banality, beauty, birthday, celebration, cute
Form: Acrostic
Poetic Locus Versus Mathematical Focus
Two activities I love have a similarity,
To experience and conjecture in verse,
And to explore limits of certainty.
Rhyme and meter, whether wordy or terse,
Enact seeing freshly,...

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Categories: banality, humorous, poetry, universe,
Form: Light Verse
Bubble Burst
A thoughtlet rises from the deep,
Tiny companions coalesce as they sleep
Swirl up a storm ever expanding as they surge.
At  surface emerge and with the...

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Categories: banality, allusion, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani By T Wignesan
God ! God ! Why have you forsaken me ! Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani by T. Wignesan

Opening the eyes requires such...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: banality, faith, jesus,
Form: Elegy
Man of the Bering Sea
Man of the Bering Sea


Met a man who lives near the Bering Sea
Whom displays a vastness of proclivity?
Or he’s often exposing his austere propensity
For unto...

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© Theresa Cw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: banality, fun, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs