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Best Insufficiently Poems


Chaos and Order
...No apparent order to illness, yet
Tonight it’s gunshot wound night
Last night was the night of the inflamed appendixes
Prior to that, the night of the living gallstones
There’s a full moon, no ot......

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Categories: insufficiently, nature, people, weather, universe,
Form: Free verse
Departures
...I never overcame your departure brothers
since then
my feet walk crippled
the kidney only filters half of the residues
my heart partially collapsed
and beats insufficiently
the gastric juice be......

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Categories: insufficiently, death, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cameron Diaz
...Herpetologist meets actress (Cameron Diaz).
If he's funny he's me.
South America or Africa (on location).
In a diamond mind.
The protagonists (lovers), the diamonds, the miners and the minders.
......

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Categories: insufficiently, america, beauty, funny, happiness,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Ice King
...twenty minutes
with an ice cube in my palm. . . 
ice king wannabe

My Conclusion:

cold stinging torture
 becomes more bearable as. . .
ice turns to water

Insufficiently numbed. . .
my hand could no......

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Categories: insufficiently, feelings,
Form: Senryu
Impoverishment
...Inadequacy defines me.
Money is not my only lack,
Pinching, as pride slips through the cracks,
Overdrafting maintenance fees.
Vacancies have never been free.
Emptiness makes my sad soul slack,
......

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Categories: insufficiently, life
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Wake and Bake
...I sprinkled dry yeast in warm water
And watched it bubble up,
Then cracked open a fresh laid egg
On the edge of a measuring cup.

I dumped in a helping of all-purpose flour,
A little oil, a pin......

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Categories: insufficiently, allegory, morning,
Form: Burlesque



Rapa Nui Warriors
...Rapa Nui Warriors stand bright and tall and stark
Monolithic dynasties enshrined in all our hearts
But what if I told you, til death doth do us part
Santa's elves could fill the shelves, 
Yet you......

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Categories: insufficiently, allusion, anxiety, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hanging On To Trauma
...There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridicu......

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Categories: insufficiently, culture, health, humor, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member 2020 Sight and Sounds
...Speaking With NonBully VoiceBoxes

Dissociative injustice,
like racist slurs and disinvestments,
retributive oppression
for not being SWM enough,
has ecological roots
in LeftBrain anthro/ego-c......

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Categories: insufficiently, earth, health, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Steadfastly Unsure
...I remain unsure
of how to reliably
robustly
resonantly
resiliently
and yet autonomously distinguish
between contemplative leisure
and contempt provoking laziness.

I remain unsure
why Easte......

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Categories: insufficiently, green, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Egotistical Grin
...How you stand so nonchalant 
When I’m the one who built this font
Doing everything which needs to be done
While you sit idle watching me run

A life I’ve made for our children and us
While you’......

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Categories: insufficiently, husband, life, lost love,
Form:
Spore your appreciation, edification, information
...Spore your appreciation, edification, information...,
orchestration, and utilization,
a moss fungi (fun guy) attests his marriage
synonymous with symbiotic relationship.

Nostalgic acquiescence ......

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Categories: insufficiently, adventure, age, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Incomplete Metamorphosis To Manhood Phase 2
...Matthew Scott Harris deprived himself
relishing, savoring, and tasting
chromosomal biologic metamorphosis
including wreaking havoc, nixing, and
foregoing heterosexual interpersonal experiences,
......

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Categories: insufficiently, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Naked President Speaks
...Dear EveryThing AntiObama Donald,

It is a humbling,
not so Great Again, truth,
is it not?
This statement,

"Don't ever talk to
[or about]
The President
that way"

Sounds and feels much 2......

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Categories: insufficiently, care, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Thank You
...Sometimes I feel invincible
Other times I feel minute
Sometimes I feel powerful
Mostly I feel mute

Thank you for the inspiration
From all your bitter words
Thank you for the lack of love
Nev......

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Categories: insufficiently, introspection, life, lost love,
Form:

Book: Reflection on the Important Things