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Best Inoperable Poems

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


Premium Member I Yearn
For once this is not fiction

Can you change the past?
I yearn to,
But on condition I carry with me
All that I have learned.
But you cannot change...

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Categories: inoperable, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Sudoku Life
And I walk
across numerical figments
speaking hyperbole dialect to their imaginations.

Numb, blocky gaps
whisper invitation to secret club.

Enticing my stature
to belong
to become exponent’s side-kick.

So they can welcome...

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Categories: inoperable, art, computer-internet, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wound That Never Heals
Science can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks...

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Categories: inoperable, christian, husband, mother, music,
Form: Verse
Time To Go In Loving Memory of My Mother
My mom was a strong woman, and stubborn too,
Yet she had a soft side, between me and you.
That side she would show, when you least...

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Categories: inoperable, caregiving, daughter, death, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Forget You
You thought you had a hold on me?
You thought right, you did have a hold on me
You thought letting you go would break me?
You thought...

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Categories: inoperable, anger, beauty, bullying, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When All Was Right
Please tell me why we didn't get our happily ever after?

I fell for you hard, it was love at first sight 
As our love grew...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inoperable, grief, loss, love,
Form: Quatrain
Cancer Ward
Hideous cancer chisels away
With strange tragic sculpturing
And exposes dark flaws
heavy and black:
Inoperable, they say.

Ever present cigarette
Tenaciously supported
By shaking hand
and unfaltering need
Moved toward fried death
As wrenching...

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Categories: inoperable, death, health, loss, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Tell Me
How should I describe this empty?
So that you may wake from this slumber
With my words, 
As some magic kiss. 
It is far more deep, and...

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Categories: inoperable, lost love, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Why...Jenny?
the sun plays hide and seek with the clouds
sometimes it shines with full brightness then
like a lightbulb that has expired
loses it's brilliance...
insects,create their own brand...

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Categories: inoperable, friendship, loss, lost love,
Form: Haiku
Save Me
What is this Evil
Growing inside me?
Who gave it legs and
Permission to feed,
On this - my own life….

Why can’t I cut
This evil out?
Why can’t I bleed
Fountains...

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Categories: inoperable, angst, death, depression, life
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Note To All Eagles
All Eagles!!
There is a time in everyone’s life when Mother Eagle throws you out of the nest and either you fly or die,
All Eagles!!
There are...

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Categories: inoperable, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Blank verse
Spiritual Star Tribute
there is this vendor on the corner
where the girl with the inoperable brain tumor used to sit
she loved to tell her stories about the characters...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inoperable, spiritual, star, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Naira Redesigned, Chaos To Nigerians
Affliction fiercely force foreigners out of the nation ..
Citizen set sight to the sovereign one above..
The ones on earth becomes earthworms eating our happiness and...

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Categories: inoperable, political,
Form: Free verse
O Sweet Poem
O Sweet poem 
Wielder of undisclosed tales
Conqueror of unyielding hearts
Comforter of inoperable minds
Consoler of inconsolable souls
Utterer of the most unutterable dictions,
You have kept secrets for...

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Categories: inoperable, love, sad love,
Form: Ballad
She Was Real
She looks down at the world
All around at her feet,
With a look that beckons
With a calm presence
Undemanding
But she is not meek,
She can thrill you
Start a...

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Categories: inoperable, devotion, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse

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