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Best Inattentive Poems

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Premium Member Inattentive Blanks
When one reaches the heady heights of longevity
frail as in wear and tear physical agility,
a license to look upon each imminent birthday
celebrated by all in...

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Categories: inattentive, destiny,
Form: Blank verse



Newton's Law
I was inattentive in Science class one day
When the teacher at random looked my way
I didn't look up, I wouldn't dare
There's no escaping that intense...

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Categories: inattentive, children, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A World On Fire
We live today in a world of great tumult
And of rising uncertainty and anxiety 
Which pervade the world stage like a cancer

Despite soaring technological advances
Our...

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Categories: inattentive, allegory, change, earth, history,
Form: Narrative
Little Coffee House
Little Coffee House 

It’s the coffee counter line-up
A conveyor belt of people 
Ready for their little treat
A little piece of comfort
From their favorite beanery
I strum...

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Categories: inattentive, confusion, girl, people, places,
Form: Lyric
No One Really Cares Part2
NO ONE REALLY CARES

Part 2

With a scheme from a team of human traitors who are unclean,
Straight up extreme and using it in a deceitful way,...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inattentive, allegory, care, earth, light,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Writing Under the Stain
in an
          angst-             ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inattentive, poetry, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God's Return Ticket
God's Return Ticket

Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician,...

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Categories: inattentive, beauty, creation, earth, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Your Sanity
Stuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane 
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity? 
Has it transformed to...

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Categories: inattentive, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gene, Gene, the Singing Machine
(in memoriam, Eugene Lawler, d. January 29, 2012, aged 83 years)

--- Note:  "The singing machine" is a not so tongue-in-cheek reference to Gene and...

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Categories: inattentive, angst, anniversary, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Villanelle: the Cricketers' Hakka: How's Zaat
Villanelle : The Cricketer’s Hakka : « How’s Zaat ! »

Balls thud into pads bats gloves or whisk past batsmen
At bowler’s end or square leg...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inattentive, games, judgement, passion, pride,
Form: Villanelle
Ready, Set, Please Don'T Go Because I'M Not
I’ve always been your little girl,
Even now that I’m an adult.
Yes, I know I’ll always be your baby,
And I grew up way too fast.
But there’s...

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© Del Higgs  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inattentive, dad, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member An Owl
an owl flies so low
over packed winter's white snow...
inattentive mouse  ...

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Categories: inattentive, nature,
Form: Haiku
Being In the Mind of a Savage
Being in the mind of a savage.

All I know is how to act ferociously.
Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims.
Beating them into...

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© K. Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inattentive, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
What Remains Within - Remorse and Pain, of Course, Reduces To Rain
Deliver my shattered soul – 
It has done more harm than good
I felt darkness take its toll
When I wore the abyss shirt with a hood…

Shadows...

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Categories: inattentive, confidence, courage, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Companion
Companion.
Comparable, compassionate compatibility.
Committal, compound or common availability.
Glorification panoistic or repudiation ability. 
Inattentive, inappreciable, impudent cruelity.
Repletion straggled and monolith joky stability. 
Licentious, monolatry rendering ostensibility....

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Categories: inattentive, caregiving
Form: Name

Book: Reflection on the Important Things