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Best Insouciance Poems

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Premium Member The Wormwood Portfolio
"The Wormwood Portfolio"



Reams of stories
riddled with worms
wood for burning
all the children
cover their eyes
tears smoked 
into the lungs
gender fluid
propheticising 
bitter water
electric brains
chipped like 
fine-boned China
downloading 
overloads...

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Categories: insouciance, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wabbling World
The task begins with awareness, and freedom without it is harmful. So let us not look back in fury or forward in panic, but rather...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insouciance, analogy, angst, inspirational, war,
Form: Narrative
- But a Moment Away -
she was amorphous,
shapeless and humble-
no ethereal sky could
release her self-assurance

her lassitude ran wild-
for she was weary since birth,
sacrificing what was never hers
for the chase of...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insouciance, death, deep, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feisty Fall
Crisp metamorphosis of color
Tempestuous leaves tap dance on
Tangled wind's insouciance
Wayward sun's scarlet wink
Feckless orange flirts
Fey cinnamon
Coyly bold
Feisty
Fall.

8/23/19...

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Categories: insouciance, autumn, color, confidence, nature,
Form: Nonet
The Obtuse Angle
An obtuse angle is an angle of greater than 90° and less than 180°. Wiki

I must be looking like an obtuse angle
in my funeral agent's...

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Categories: insouciance, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men - Xxviii
Unquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII

                 for...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insouciance, anti bullying, black african
Form: Epigram
No House Built On a Bridge, Part Three
3.



Or down yet another city street,
This Way down that grand Hiway,
That Third Eye opened:
Random patches of dandelion manifest,
Climbing the overgrown commons by the road;
Disappearing out...

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Categories: insouciance, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Mugging
teetering the streets early morning dawn
as I left the swagger at the bar guzzling beers
I encountered the devil

the butt of a gun stopped the fun...

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Categories: insouciance, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Money Talk
Money, you are such a fool,
Dastardly you run into pockets,
Where plenty is already stored.
You carry on like a heartless goon,
And they say you are a...

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Categories: insouciance, money,
Form: Personification
Green Eyed Monster
Hent my heart from wandering concepts of affection.
Recant the murmurs of insecurity that riddled my temple.
Like a slow wound toy awaiting release from a child's...

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Categories: insouciance, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Creations Created
Creations created, never outdated,
C
                     ...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insouciance, creation, inspiration, meaningful, society,
Form: Epic
The Foreign Bird
The foreign bird
I knew him well trying to blend in
Speaking the language too flawlessly
So, the embarrassment when he
On occasions, got it wrong.
It was not his...

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Categories: insouciance, arabic, aubade, bangla, beach,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Translation of Mat Pokora's Je Suis Tombe By T Wignesan
Translation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan

(NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insouciance, french, happiness, love, love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dehydration Quenched On An Island With Females - Part 1
one  seventh heaven fantasy of this middle aged hetero
sexual mwm would be  to take the playbook of the late 
(recently deceased) Hugh Hefner....

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Categories: insouciance, butterfly, desire, devotion, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Soft, New, Parade, Part One
"Soft," New, Parade, just begun, ...

cars and beasts ...

roll down the crowd-filled Street.

All the engines "hum."

All the cylinders "run."

Eyes open wide.

Hearts sink.


Under a rising Tropical...

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Categories: insouciance, conflict, extended metaphor, surreal,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs