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Below are the all-time best Ineffective poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ineffective poems written by PoetrySoup members


Slamming the Super-Duper-Soupers
you want to know a secret
when I write a poem and it's perfect
i dont share it
i bury it 
deep inside of me 
where no one...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ineffective, humor, slam, perspective,
Form: Rubaiyat



Premium Member These Trees
"I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;"
. . .
"Nathless I have been a tree amid the...

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Categories: ineffective, allegory, life, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alien Invasion
We were invaded peacefully
There was no sign of strife
Then they went back to their own planet
To find intelligent life
The Major told the Five Star
Yes sir,...

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Categories: ineffective, science fiction
Form: Rhyme
Dark Kiss
Lightening streaks in thundering black hair,
Love was stolen from the soul at first sight.
Shadowed eyes, Marilyn Manson disguise,
She haunted my daydreams at night.

Poison kiss cherry...

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Categories: ineffective, character, dark,
Form: Rhyme
When a Grand Slam Is Not Enough
The game of baseball can sometimes be rough.
Teams often play competition that can be too tough.
Often, even a grand slam home run is not enough.
Last...

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Categories: ineffective, baseball,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love Has No Reply
Love Has No Reply
Love has no reply it just waits- 
love has no reply - it just prays- 
Love understands- as it hopes 
that rage...

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Categories: ineffective, absence, analogy, hope, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Portraits of Racial Politics
“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate...

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Categories: ineffective, culture, earth, health, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Parasitism
An example of unilateral symbiosis
would be parasitism such as any mycosis.
Within you could live a bacterium or virus.
To me, it is beneficial. To you, dangerous.
The...

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Categories: ineffective, death, health
Form: Rhyme
A Day Off
Born in Paris: Ineffective
Tossed off in a clown suburb;
All what is left a booze somewhere....

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Categories: ineffective, death, lost,
Form: Haiku
Painter of the Sky
PAINTER OF THE SKY

Before the beginning of all creations you were
You wove the very foundations to be seemingly fair
Everything stood firm and still
You did this...

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Categories: ineffective, bible, color, creation, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
The Cybernetic Lullaby, Part Ii
I read on my laptop today--
automation is making us dumber,
ineffective, maybe even impotent.
Perhaps it's a conspiracy by that secret
society, the computer brotherhood.
(Do you really believe...

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Categories: ineffective, analogy, computer, corruption, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxxii - Continued-
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXII

IF ever I had a country with or without nationality
And if ever I were elected or nominated Chief...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ineffective, betrayal, patriotic, satire, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Pain
Pain can I ignore you and pretend you don't exist?
Can I make you dull and ineffective and less intense?
Can I make my body numb from...

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Categories: ineffective, pain, sad,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Where Streams Converge...
Free from demanding compressions
fleeting still,is the sliver of a moment
which brings together impulse imparted
where the absolute, and the eternal meet,
as tears of imperfection cry in...

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Categories: ineffective, faith, hope
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love At Twilight
How large the pearlescent sun seems today.
Yet it is dying, its flaming rays ineffective.
After a long hot day, tired, it must be spent.
So patiently it...

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Categories: ineffective, love, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse

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