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Best Counterproductive Poems

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


The Treadmill
Slowing down the motor,
running low on gas

The lies, the HOV lane,
the truth off in the grass

The speed counterproductive,
it warps and then transforms

The magic in the...

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Categories: counterproductive, time,
Form: Rhyme



Letter To Taeljejohn
uncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.

A disappointment set in place in the event that based...

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Categories: counterproductive, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 20
It was a bitter morning, the ground hotter upon my flesh
I kneeled at the center of the pit on the twentieth day,
Remembering a tune sung...

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Categories: counterproductive, growth, heart, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Staying Vertical
I’m not an athlete although I love tennis,
I’ve flirted with fitness for most of my life,
Found rewards of a life that’s quite active are
Counterproductive to...

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Categories: counterproductive, age, health, life,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Meditation
Deep inhalation and exhalation
breaths initially activate
relaxation, attributed to stress,
tension, unconscious vectors 
woefully agglomerate
ache'n to gangrenous jackknifing noggin 

dichotomy to alleviate
cognitive clog analogous 
to emotional obstruction
that...

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Categories: counterproductive, assonance, good morning, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Thrift
Nearly all things
pertinent to life
are dispensed
in measured
finite quantities
money
clothing
shelter
food
water
oxygen
even relationships
and our life itself
in precious drops
moments
of time

So, thrift in
nearly all things
is merely a logical use
of these resources
in...

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Categories: counterproductive, humanity, life, people, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes Its Hard Not To Wonder
Sometimes its hard not to wonder what life your child might lead
 youve taught them everything they know but it was there choice to listen.
...

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Categories: counterproductive, caregiving, childhood, family, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yucatan, Et Cetera
Yucatan, etc.

Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.

Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
antique busses, burros, plumbing, pyramids--
as...

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Categories: counterproductive, fate, holiday, irony, leaving,
Form: Free verse
The Golden Years
The Golden Years  

We celebrated the years with so many memories, birthdays, funerals….
As we took a stroll through life and archived all the memories...

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Categories: counterproductive, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Prognosticating Present Plight
Prognosticating Present Plight...
Perhaps Preset During In Utero Protean Stage?

Reviewing, sans my life
and arduous hard time
lock, stock, and barrel on regular basis,
and of late composing
this, that,...

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Categories: counterproductive, 7th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Bio
Open Arms Welcome Poetry Muse
I gently beckon inspiration
for dalliance with mother tongue
English Language, each
singular lettered manifestation
familiar to yours truly symbolized
by panoply, sans twenty six letters,

whereby this patient scrivener
luxuriates, when...

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Categories: counterproductive, analogy, best friend, father,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Trauma Prevention Department
Don't want to be stuck
in the Trauma Prevention Department.

Don't want to work that hard
on dogmatic compartments
for politically correct CAPITAL INVESTMENT
governments
over-investing in cautionary
conditional
chronic win/lose mistrustful
competitive dissonant...

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Categories: counterproductive, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Suffering In Modernity
Our lives have become so simple
Yet stress and anxiety are at an all time high
We’re overweight and depressed
Extremely offended most of the time 

We’re wealthier...

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Categories: counterproductive, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Open Arms Welcome Poetry Muse
Ideally yours truly prefers 
a she/her who never got prosecuted for a felon, 
yet who most deaf fin knit lee  
possesses sound blinding killer...

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Categories: counterproductive, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022
Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022

The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically 
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
ideally yielding ultimate resultant...

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Categories: counterproductive, angst, endurance, february, how
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things