Best Failed Poems

My shallow waters have failed to hide
the deeper agony pulsating inside.
I could forgive your lies but not forget.
Do you have remorse, do you feel regret?  
Feelings were buried in a shallow grave
as we failed to mend the love God gave.
You failed to speak and...

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My mama said to get a man,
I first must prove myself a cook.
I could not feed him from a can.

I tried to learn how from a book
And sought to make a chocolate cake.
I didn't care how long it took.

I set the oven high to bake
Then...

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I worked towards this dream my whole lifetime
But it always seemed just out of my reach
The harder I tried to achieve it, 
the further away it seemed to become

I was always told growing up
That I could be whatever I wanted to be
As long as I...

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     As a father I’ve failed
       I should have been jailed
     My kids are not happy
       The blame’s on their pappy

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The failed writer
For twenty years he has written down 
what came to his mind, in the end, many books
with his name on a bookshelf.
There they reminded unsold, unloved collecting
the dust of time.
He tried to sell his books on Amazon and in shops
when that failed he...

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I have failed many times in life, but God hasn't replaced me. He challenges me to do better....

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If you don’t get an A then you’re lazy, 
you could have studied harder,
 you could stayed up another hour just to cram the papers into your hair. 

I see boys with earthquake hands from the four cups of coffee they chugged just to stay...

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WHEN I FAILED
Tears is what strolled past me
Lost and sad is what i feel
When it all crush me clean
My tears is full to the brim

Now i know life is not as it is in movies
And not as seen in the Disney’s
The greats are not made...

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A man was happy to seeing the stars show
      He marked to trip when they fully glow
             He set his ladder up the sky
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When All Else Fails…  There’s Jesus!

When everything has failed all around you…
And the problems of life seem to “surround you.”

When it seems like life has come “crashing down.”
And you may wish you could just “leave town.”

Perhaps it seems like your life is going “off...

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United in isolated collectivity,
Standing erect for reflective solidarity,
Sited to enable individuality,
Symbolising the dead, the loss in totality.

So many damaged people, with so much to remind,
There are tear-laden memories for those left behind.
A tangible grief can still be heard in their voices,
Faltering as they speak out...

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Under sun's warm breath and winter's frozen moon
To the river's fast current and society's torment
I promised to enshrine you in my cocoon-
Save you when all others' did circumvent.

They saw you exhausting and jaded
A mind turned mad- full of tragic despair
I knew you as exuberant and...

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Now I am sleeping
The sleep of the dead
Laying in a coffin
Instead of a bed

My wife kept saying
I should have the test
I never listened
I thought I knew best

A finger in an anus
Just a simple poke
What I thought was funny
Was far from a joke

My cancer undetected
Consumed me...

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Please forgive me 
If I committed a sin
The devil was calling my name
And he pulled me in 

I tried my best to stop him
But I couldn’t get away
Temptation got the best of me
And I forgot what you had to say

Guide me back to the right...

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The story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to 
Embroidered in revenge.

Tunde Canada! 
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard, the hemisphere
At the time when chicks announce their appearance.
His ordeal was woven in ancient penury.
He was in the enclave of...

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