Best Generalities Poems
A Kiss of Honor, a Memorial Day Tribute
...Frantic searching for my sanity as the odor of explosives and burning flesh assault my soul. Longing for the boredom of stuffy barracks my eyes my friends constantly search for your return I hide al......
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Categories:
generalities, blessing, brother, conflict, death
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sonnet For Her
...You asked once to what did I attribute
how long our marriage has lasted, I replied
with guarded generic generalities to contribute
to the conversation, and to save my hide,
cause I learned long ago t......
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Categories:
generalities, devotion
Form:
Sonnet
Seven Generalities of Single Adults Without Dependents:
...1. Mortality Recognition
2. Hedonism
3. Apathy
4. Restlessness
5. Historic Amnesia
6. Recklessness/Experimentation
7. Meta-Identity......
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Categories:
generalities, age, change, growth, identity,
Form:
List
Emotional Attraction
...EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION
While in this world it seems opposites have attraction
Male - female, plus - minus, north - south, captain and crewman
Between these terminals, force yielded by interaction
......
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Categories:
generalities, creation, emotions,
Form:
Verse
Glittering Generalities
...GLITTERING GENERALITIES
I vow that you will be happily effected
If I am elected by your selection
At the forthcoming election.
With great dedication
I shall diligently bother
To uphold the g......
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Categories:
generalities, allusion, fantasy, irony, nonsense,
Form:
Light Verse
Pacific Papa Pedals Perspicacious Persiflage Panacea
...the following sloop of words rowed and towed together as they
came into my periscoptic poop deck with slight emendation
from thee oar ridge in hull.
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Categories:
generalities, addiction, allusion, america, angst,
Form:
Alliteration
Tomorrow Is the Tenth Anniversary of 9-11
...The Tenth Anniversary of 9-11 is Tomorrow
By Elton Camp
There are many who don’t know what to do
It’s possible that individual panic will ensue
And to be open about it, I would have to admit
......
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Categories:
generalities, visionary, may,
Form:
Rhyme
An Old Lady
...In Church today at the dawn of morning light,
she sat in front of me
hunching over just a little to my right.
Pale, frail, mottled unfolded hands,
with hint of a slight tremor
she fin......
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Categories:
generalities, age, faith, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fine Print Always Ruins That Glint of Hope- Part 3
...On the rainy days I wind gently through the streets
Trying desperately to greet every new person I should meet
My demeanor screams of defeat
Just not the best person in this world to meet
But i......
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Categories:
generalities, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Shrinks Beware Karma
...I
here lie the remains of savior-imposters
lots of canned answers from textbooks
they knew: peace & reconciliation will be their ruin
so, divorce or hate, were prolonged a tad
shrinks who didn't......
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Categories:
generalities, allegory, angst, depression, education,
Form:
Epitaph
The Spirit Realm
...Glimpses into the future:
A confusing mist clouds the conscious
Wishing for clarity
But receiving only blank stares of cruel misguiding
Signs
Soulless shrouds made from memories remind
Me of ho......
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Categories:
generalities, adventure, confusion, dedication, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Life Changing
...All you need to know is that things change
But it isnt just things that do it, its everything
No matter the size or depth normal becomes strange
And its always for the better and worst despite hop......
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Categories:
generalities, lifechange,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Cee Gum and Gunfire
...GUM AND GUNFIRE
I SIT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE COMFORTABLY EATING A MANGO WITH OREO COOKIES
while a father fights off fearfulness fervently in a far off forest deep in Da Nang
Where even the trees have......
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Categories:
generalities, angst, brother, brother,
Form:
Free verse
Inevitable
...Lives diverge.
Maybe that's a core rule;
the child leaves the parent,
or worse, the parent leaves the child.
Either way there is emptiness somewhat like a death.
Whatever the circumstances, the ......
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Categories:
generalities, child, father, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Up Wise Ones
...
Sometimes, in weak generalities we talk.
We believe in TV, podcasts or social networking?
Far from making us genius political hawks.
Believing, seeking out a new, far more weak king?
......
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Categories:
generalities, america, how i feel,
Form:
Quatrain