Best Inadequate Poems

I’ve got a little secret, on which I would like to let you in,
But first, please promise me you won’t think I’m full of mortal sin.

I’ve always had a slight dislike for poems that rhyme,
I scoff when I read them, saying their simplicity is a...

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I feel the familiar burn of abandonment
A feeling that anyone sane would resent
And yet I bask in it—the disconcerted lament

Angrily I tear at the seas and weeds of lies
Saying nothing but curses—bidding goodbyes
Painstakingly waiting for the cruel waters to rise

But you never rose, you fool!
You...

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When the real you
Is not good enough 
When you weighed by a stranger’s scale
And you are labeled inadequate
Do you try and become 
Who they think you are 
Or do you walk around under the blanket 
Of not being good enough forever

Even when you know you...

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Let me depart
This play with words,
And enter
Sounds of nothing.
An earthen urn
Echoes river music,
Flows with the current,
To the inevitable dialectic
Of whirlpool sounds.
Let the river churn my blood,
Permeate through osmotic skin,
Until bed sheets lie crumpled,
Keyboards are shattered.
In the autumn of night
A white page stares at me,
I beat...

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I try hard, to make you understand
So we can remain friends- hand in hand
But as time moves on it all fades away
And I'm left, the inadequate fool

Often I find I cannot repress these tears at night
I fear I'm losing you my best friend...and the darkness...

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Human nature is such
All you need is much 
Whatever you have is less 
You always stay in a mess.

Content are few
Not in search of something new
Values are not valuable enough
To assess the available stuff

Love is inadequate 
So are the feelings.
Words are inadequate, 
So is the...

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Twisted in eddies through whirlpools of living
we are experimentalists with emotions of affection 
as vocabulary of language cannot denote- 
for measures in words are profoundly inadequate   
for two spirits forged in the crucible of souls
tempered in moments by breath of existence.
 For no...

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What do you do when words are pale
Inadequate to the task
Emotions not fully expressed
Plucking from my mind 
Wishing for my best
Yet lacking
Not flowing
Where will I look
Within or without
I feel overwhelmed
Not able to contain 
Still not sure where to look
Words dribbled on a page
Wishing to fly
Yet...

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Inadequate sleep ex(spells) volatile mental state

Existential crisis ensued,
hence the following
I attempt to relate
forewarning the missus,
who heard bellicose me loud and clear
excoriate, deprecate, communicate
callously, blisteringly, angrily... expostulate
refrain awakening this sleeping spouse
yours truly unapologetically will berate

forgetting self promise
vowing never to castigate,
yet flush with red hot poker rage
out...

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To say you are my everything
Does not capture anything

To say you fill my every need
Does not tell all that you exceed

To say you satisfy me with pleasure
Does not explain a  joy beyond measure

To say your beauty is magnetic
Does not describe feelings so poetic...

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I didn't do nothing
I didn't do enough

I was after fact;
 I was feeling inadequate;
I felt like I didn't have a chance to help you out;
 I was deficient, faulty felt incompetent ;

I didn't do anything
I didn't do enough

I was lacking incomplete ;
Sketch and unequal spoke;
I...

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Some days I'm torn apart. Like the 
teeth of lion, piercing a gazelle's 
heart.

And I weep so much, those tears 
now no longer fall. I feel like a 
newborn, I'm learning how to crawl.

This love, I showered him, like rain 
in a downpour. It wasn't...

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inadequate inaccuracy
never hit the mark 
no matter practice 
no matter efforts made
just a hair off the goal line 
just out of range of the target 
never able to get a clear shot 
something always got in the way 
of the vantage point from which 
the...

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Trample Inadequate Example

all we should trample
none were perfect example
due to poor sample

Jim Horn...

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Our Soldier Son

   2007

      
We sat together in the front row
At airport gate number five
(his father and I),
Watching as he paced
Toward the exiting corridor.
Then at the opening of that 
Passage, he stepped to turn about-face,
Returning his way back...

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