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Best Boredom Poems

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


Don'T Bother Me
Don't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!

Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...

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Categories: boredom, community, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: boredom, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pretty Poet
Where Have All The Pretty Poets Gone? 

A real poet are you, charismatic over everything you serve
Showcasing, a rainbow that folds the perfect worldwide perspective
I'm...

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Categories: boredom, angel, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Under the Willow Trees
A path strewn thick with ruddy-faced leaves
led to nowhere and everywhere in fantasies, 
our near-death rescue from boredom 
      ...

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Categories: boredom, childhood, death of a
Form: Free verse
Suncatcher --Recited
A visitor—
icicle fingers
tapping on my windows' pain—
white blanket in tow

Hurting enough, I paid him no mind
so he kept tap, tap, tapping
‘til cobweb-like cracks appeared:
a final,...

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Categories: boredom, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Photos With Glitches On Invisible Wings
You're a camera obscura, a broken bell's rings,
You made me dance slowly on sad phantom strings.
You always had the slightly off-color touch,
Your insensitive skin never...

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Categories: boredom, perspective, relationship,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Distant Shores
Atlantic storms had taken the main mast
For seven weeks we drifted helplessly
Fresh water and food were running out fast
There was talk below deck of mutiny.

Hunger,...

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Categories: boredom, sea, storm, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Fault Is Not In the Poet
Fingers tremble,
like an alcoholic without a bottle.
His pen is graceful in its slumber,
but imprisoned ink desires to be free -
intoxicated by his poetry.

Lips are forever...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boredom, analogy, angst, introspection, muse,
Form: Free verse
As I Plot Just One More Day
I am immeasurably honoured to have been invited to collaborate with as fine a poet as Robert Lindley. Our first collaborative process has been very...

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Categories: boredom, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As I Plot Just One More Day
As I Plot Just One More Day

Desperate as the waking at blackest dawn
I seek only moments within eternity,
for the day upon me is long 
and...

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Categories: boredom, appreciation, art, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I walk in the shadow
I shore up my doubt, behind a loosely bound hope 
Which in turn is propped up without foundation
Cynical of a life, at the mercy of...

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Categories: boredom, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Muse Is a Flower Garden
Autumn will forever be the season of death to me,
but like time, I do not remain cemented in the past.
Memories of ghosts will always lead me...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boredom, analogy, assonance, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blind Date - Now a Collaboration
My bestie blind dated big Humpty
His hairstyle resembled Don Trumpty
He was constantly rude
Foul mouthed and so crude
No wonder she soon ditched the numpty!

10/15/18


Your bestie's blind...

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Categories: boredom, best friend, humorous, relationship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Lunar Cycle
By the early years of that ancient decade, the 70's,
I'd tired of my obstreperous tomboyish games: 
kickball with the neighbor kids, sledding in the winter,...

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Categories: boredom, life,
Form: Free verse
The Restless Sea Historical Quatrain For Contest
THE RESTLESS SEA


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Categories: boredom, history, men,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs