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Best Inadequacy Poems

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Premium Member The Bosses Son
you may try to make us feel inferior
strutting around with head held high and mighty
i wonder
is it for our sake
or just to cover up thy...

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Categories: inadequacy, rude, sad,
Form: Suzette Prime



Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...

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Categories: inadequacy, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Existential Essence
In the vast algorithmic wilderness, we search for truth...

In the chaos of digital existence,
we navigate the maze of virtual connections,
seeking answers in the pixels that
form...

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Categories: inadequacy, culture, environment, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
If I Had To Paint a Picture of Me Loving God What Would I See
If I had to paint a picture of me loving God what would I see?
would I see a portrait of a person who walks in...

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Categories: inadequacy, art, faith, life, love,
Form: Ode
Does She Know
DOES SHE KNOW YOUR FAVORITE COLOR
OR WHEN YOU GREW UP WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE
DOES SHE KNOW HOW YOU LIKE TO SMELL
OR THE PLACES YOU...

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Categories: inadequacy, for him,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jealousy
Jealousy a destructive emotion
Serves no-one well
Brings out the worst in human nature
Dragging mind and heart to a dark hell

Slowly diminishes the human spirit
Gnaws at ones...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inadequacy, feelings, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
No Purpose Pulses
My flesh is flush with inadequacy each day
for no purpose pulses inspiration my way.

No motivation shows to validate
	that my energy even palpitates -
I am a...

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Categories: inadequacy, anxiety, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thanks So Much
There are no words to describe
How much your friendship means to me.
Abundant times you lend an ear, a helping hand,
Notwithstanding your own problems,
Knowing what a...

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Categories: inadequacy, friendship,
Form: Acrostic
Raped
Everything, stolen from her
Every last defense, vanished inside of her
She screams and moans into the rag
But nothing she shrieks can escape the gag
He pinned her...

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© Cory Reid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inadequacy, loss, sad, teen, body,
Form: I do not know?
The 'Talent' Gene
It is the most selfish gene
The one that make us distinguishable
Our uniqueness and special abilities
We owe it all to its infinite mutations

It is the most...

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Categories: inadequacy, inspirational, planet,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Depression's Illusion
The horizon
desolate
it matters not
what you were
memories
are just that
memories
a familiar road
peering within
inadequacy 
reaching out
to what end
tomorrow 
matters more
without performance
love has conditions
a battered heart
realizing
I am nothing 
life’s...

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Categories: inadequacy, analogy, anxiety, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Love Brings Hope - the Tigerjade Style
~ Love  Brings  Hope ~ 
( Tigerjade ) 


~O~


Love brings Hope 
Helps me cope 
It's  great when you possess them all inside...

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Categories: inadequacy, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Desperate Fight
A black feather perches  in my soul.

Dreams of shouts for freedom,
Emotions built and have died for a reason. His
sadistic unconscious goal of desire. I...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inadequacy, abuse, freedom, hope,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Paint Me An Ugly Duck
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inadequacy, art, depression, horror, loneliness,
Form: I do not know?
A Fit of Emptiness: Finding One's Self
Sometimes I daydream of cannibalism;
Eating the body of myself.
A self driven by inadequacy,
I want to rip myself apart
And feel it die slowly.
As I sit,
Dreams transparing...

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Categories: inadequacy, angst, fear,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs