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Best Impractical Poems

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Blink
See, how easy it is, 
To blink—

As it was to melt by your words, your… tender squeeze of endearing kindness…

I flowed along the currents of...

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Categories: impractical, anger, anxiety, deep, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Sojourn
More than eleven thousand days have passed since I started this voyage. 
Laughters, anguish, challenges, setbacks, achievements;
These shaped me into who I am presently
Resilient. Strong....

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Categories: impractical, conflict, depression, encouraging, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute
Impersonal
Superficial
A tribute to a man
I hardly knew
An impractical joker
An inclement clown
Overly cautious
To never reveal
Anything of himself
Hiding under the façade
Of inappropriate humor
An awkward conundrum
A mystery man



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Categories: impractical, character, conflict, mystery, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten Hero
Forgotten Hero

I was awesome;
destined to be rich and famous when I grew up.
Until that happened, 
I settled for being a superhero…


And I was!


I was untouchable.
Bulletproof.
So...

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Categories: impractical, growing up, hero, identity,
Form: Bio
Grandma's Gift
I wake to the sounds of laughter and lively music (jazz, I think) flowing free from the empty tenement down the hall. The smooth harmonies...

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Categories: impractical, family, granddaughter, grandmother, love,
Form: Haibun



Inferno Yawn
rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impractical, beauty, desire, dream, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Heybrother, Can U Spare a Brain Cell
Is there a memo motionless meaning that co considers
the let me know not the in between time of soul space that swells
spit in time and...

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Categories: impractical, analogy, angst, anxiety, culture,
Form: Free verse
The Strength of the Bald Eagle
Powers beyond measure with messages of the spirit, 
the BALD EAGLE soars with might, so majestic I can hear it.
Bestowing freedom flying higher than any...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impractical, bird, native american, nature,
Form: Couplet
Sobriety Anniversary
TWO YEARS TODAY!!That's right, go ahead 
and let the UNIVERSE know big SISTA, that's 
1,051,200 min sober yeah we're countin 
WITH YA! Raise your arms,...

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Categories: impractical, addiction
Form: ABC
Premium Member Tea With Bigfoot
Well! How ya doin' ? Come on in,
the door ain't got no lock,
and let me help you sit right down
before you die of shock.
Yes, home...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impractical, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Joyless Joseph
Wordless worries wander wearily working wayward,
    Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide.
As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal,
    Essence easily evaporates,...

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Categories: impractical, crazy, creation, imagination, ,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chic-A-Chatting
I am going to write a funny poem
Why?  Because I feel like it
Why do you go the extra mile?
Great waistline my friend
C'mon
I love watching...

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Categories: impractical, faith, fun, funny, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Text Speak
Text Speak--A newly developing dialect whereby the speaker can convey a lengthy thought by abbreviating phonetically or through the use of substitutive characters.	

Any attempt to...

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© Sam Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impractical, computer-internet, education, funny, on
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A List of Stupid Things We Do
Here is a list of stupid things we do, in habit without objection,
Happily recycling the actions of others without a blink or question.

We lose daylight...

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Categories: impractical, life, society,
Form: Couplet
The Hardest Thing
we're here again
you in denim skirt
shrinking against long legs
I in (imaging) nothing
sheen & glisten in moonlight
interior car lamp light
tan
crimped high hair & bangs
blue eyeliner
mascara
easy to...

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Categories: impractical, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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