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Best Discontentment Poems

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Ranting From a Chair
I am but a slave among lives hidden features
Who cares what I crave midst these two-legged creatures
I crave superb polish and fine furniture wax
Extremely strong...

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Categories: discontentment, desire, fantasy, house, imagination,
Form: Personification



Day By Day
Waning love is a cold diamond thing
The hurt pressure 
from the thought of losing you
is such a hard burden
Squeezing the hope out of me

Heavy-hearted acceptance...

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Categories: discontentment, emotions, hurt, pain, sad
Form: Free verse
Come Back To Love
When roads of discontentment
                 take you places you don’t...

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Categories: discontentment, beautiful, fear, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'adjust and Move On'
Drowning in the knowledge
That change is inevitable
Afraid that your decision might backfire

What can be more spine-chilling?
Is the fact  
That not making the change will...

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Categories: discontentment, change, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Armless Ambidextrian
I. The Love of Minds

The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will...

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Categories: discontentment, conflict, death, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse



Hope
holding on to promises expected that's what we need to do
for God said that He would never leave nor forsake you

we've all been through stuff...

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Categories: discontentment, hope,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member With God, I Can
With God’s omnipotence that does attest His wondrous might
I can overcome temptation with its sinful temerity
While fighting valiantly transgressions’ filthiness…
…Pursuing after holiness in living for...

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Categories: discontentment, blessing, character, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Guiding Light
When worried about my security's steadfastness 
since I see not the future, 
I trust the guiding Light… my God – the omniscient Supreme One
Who knows...

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Categories: discontentment, appreciation, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reaper Comes a Calling
It was nigh on to St. Crispin's day
But I found no solace there.
The night curdled with discontentment
As a vile expectation filled the air.
Death himself appeared...

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Categories: discontentment, death, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Soul of An Eagle Life of a Penguin
Soaring in my mind above the blue skies.
Warmth penetrating across my brow.
Diving to feel a cool breeze and soaring again
On strong wings. Time is no...

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Categories: discontentment, adventure, fantasy
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Good Bye, Christmas Mourning
Never could Christmas mourning grip my heart
Since Christ in His birth* sealed me by His love
Granting me eternal life thru faith-start
With blessings and peace from...

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Categories: discontentment, blessing, christian, christmas, faith,
Form: Quatrain
She Breaks
Neon billboards scream a symphony of 
images
in attempts to sell
happiness
by bleeding dissatisfaction into her mind.

Glossy, crisp pages remind her that she isn't 
good enough
to be...

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Categories: discontentment, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plea for Spiritual Nourishment
“If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of...

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Categories: discontentment, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Kyrielle
Thy Divine Mercy
Thou art merciful
in so that you doust
the flames of loathsome torment
that grows in thy heart
Being this said be mine
be mine and we will dispel
winters veiling...

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Categories: discontentment, art, death, devotion, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watered-Down Juice
Foray of explosive sunset —
natural fireworks on display.
A banquet of clouds, rolls in wet,
rolling up their sleeves in melee.

The confusion has its beauty —
thunderous blue,...

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Categories: discontentment, color, imagery, metaphor, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs