Best Empty Talk Poems

Don't understand how anyone dares to promise anything
Promises that are difficult to keep
.. gold and green forests -
.. happiness and wealth -
... eternal friendship and love
.. never promise more than you can keep

Some promises will be kept, others not
But, there are unwritten rules
I have experienced...

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For a second there
in my lousy little life
there used to be a someone
who made me smile
and to me
I have this rule
Never to hate someone
That once made me smile
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But the feeling is inexplicable
When that specific someone
Put an ice cold dagger in my back
fire burning lava in...

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Old facade
Museum facelift;
Joy sparkles

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Uneasy buzz
Empty talk ooze;
Juicy bits

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Pokemon fling
Sure strokes sling;
Crazy madness

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Newspaper headlines
Too much noise;
Trade deficit

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Violent protests
Crowds angry now;
Defiance congregates

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Bad news sells
Print run profit;
Violence breeds rape

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White wake
Gloomy death black;
Grief suffocates

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Single rose stalk
Sad parting gift;
Funeral pyre

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End of life
Mortal remains on fire;
Tears for fears

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Sad story slays
Vivid hurts...

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Political debate
Sense and nonsense;
Emotional postures

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Strange faces
Prowling vampires;
Blood bank rapture

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Another field day
Fiery speeches;
Free-for-all postures

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Scramble around
Hustle and bustle;
"Vote for me!"

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Easy promises
Entertaining smudges;
Crazy claims galore

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Witness here
Good, bad, and ugly;
Vote with eyes open

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Empty talk hurls
Acidic vitality;
Bizarre entertainment!

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Floodgates open
Hungry ghost festival;
Be ever mindful

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Be still my heart
Let the truth dawn;
Follow your...

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I
Walk
We learn with many a fall
Walk
With Jesus, ye heard the call
Amos said (3:3) "Can TWO
WALK
TOGETHER
Unless they be agreed?"

II
When biblical pastors urge fellow-saints
To grow in their Christian Walk
That is essential, as Paul taught the Ephesians
Otherwise we have empty talk

III
Two scriptures & John 3 :16 are a...

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Weary this world where dirt flings stain.
Dreary the swirl in crude terrain.


Pain seeps through stuff to corrode zest,
Troubles make rough to cancel fest.


Strange is the way of tempest found,
Fear speaks to say with empty sounds.


Hope floods to purge the lonely dark,
Love funds the urge to...

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(The writer Bourget is discussing the murder of
his friend, Gaston Calmette.  Sixte is the hero of
one of Bourget's novels.  Proust, another novelist,
lived in the street where the murder occurred.
Sorel was a pre-Fascist philosopher.)


3. Paul Bourget

I wonder why she'd do it? It's unclear,
at least...

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Absent minds are proved by empty talk
We are sorry but it doesn’t help us
Empty hearts seem to be among folks
We can cry but it doesn’t save us...

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Those river banks were known to me
But, so full of youthful joy was I
That I longed for love and in the gloom
Your exotic beauty caught my eye

Dazzled by your salesman's pitch
Your merry jive and empty talk
I followed you, and how you led
Elan and aplomb in...

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The world has fashioned ways
to put you under me...
I want you to know
that's not the world I see.

I see you as you are
as all that you can be
within a bond
in which both of us fly free.

Let's just be together
in a way that works for both...
birds...

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I
Hours and hours of empty talk
filled with the lull of piano, pianissimo.
I felt your passionate words through each
round hole on the cordless telephone,
I drank your syllables, sweet like cranberry juice,
feverish syrup melting my ears.
Our minds met, conversed, convulsed, condemned
us to loving (or something close to...

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Without the preamble of you
Or the story of we
This is the reality after the show
The stage after the cast calls
The lines within the gory scenes 
The truth after defenses
This is it
This is it?
This vast place of insufficiency
This palace built on inconsistency 
Empty talk and woozy...

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CIRCUMLOCUTION


Today’s problems seem insoluble,
For empty talk is often voluble.


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I think I'll do the wash today so much
Has piled up since. But then the shopping must
Be done, of this I am convinced. How such
Predicaments evolved? I guess I'm just
A lazy cuss who'd rather stay in bed.
Although the chores are pending still, I swear
By all...

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"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary
 tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

                         Julio Cortázar, Around...

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