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Maladjusted
Can't cope so forgive me
I see the world in true form,
Not the fantasy easily reached and perceived.
Truth is the standing which resonates,
a strange sense of...

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© Paul K K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maladjusted, happiness,
Form: Free verse



Infested
Something inside of me has died.
On several occasions to myself I have lied.
My blackened heart in the palm of my hand
Offering it to you just...

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Categories: maladjusted, lost love, me,
Form: I do not know?
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maladjusted, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
How I Got Rich
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then

I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessman from Campbell's Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maladjusted, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Crust Method
Eye  control darkness
Standing in creek consciousness
Eye pain portal
Me maladjusted myalgia
Hyposyncratic virilence
It tick, me tick
Bit me
Me sick
Loads shells, no click

Arabic apotheosis shrouded in defamation
Famine lives...

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© Rob Browne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maladjusted, slam, spiritual,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the...

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Categories: maladjusted, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Evolution of An Enfant Terrible
Don't point your finger
           and indict me as a spoilt child.
    ...

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Categories: maladjusted, anger, child abuse, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Questioning Depression
Do you? 
Fasten procrastination against the bed sheets of discontented motivation?
Sleeping into oblivion with depression settling in?
Becoming a recipient of insidious stigmatization?

Or, Do you? 
Pull...

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Categories: maladjusted, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
One's Old School
K through Twelve,
it's called.

Students and teachers
walk the halls.

From beginning to end
behaving like they should

Or else. . .

One knows that
the attic is filled with cobwebs,
of course,
and...

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Categories: maladjusted, angst, childhood, confusion, education,
Form: Free verse
Eidos of History
In America’s Pragmatism,
the urgent question is "of" individual sanctity
now can be tweeted as:
“what is the Pragmatic or Aesthetic function "of"
******** or PUSSY, anyway?”

and "of"...

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Categories: maladjusted, allusion, analogy, culture, history,
Form: I do not know?
Tide
Gemstones on a shoreline
maladjusted to the saltiness of fallen tears
basted in the din of sunbeam atoms colliding
the neap, a resting time from mortal waveforms
towed beneath...

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© Aron Jacob  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maladjusted, introspection, life, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Here I Rise
Here I rise... Surrounded by souls but still all alone
Born just ramble and bound just to roam
Nothingness is my name and nowhere is my home

Here...

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Categories: maladjusted, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member all too soon
Classes started up again today. Soon, we’ll be gloriously stressed, and clocked-up on whatever. Our hearts will swell to the pre-med symphony - a frantic...

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Categories: maladjusted, humor, school, student, work,
Form: Free verse
The Dried Up Well
He struggles with emotions
He struggles with emotional wounds
He struggles alone unable to share
He struggles alone slowly self destructing
For his well of tears is dried up...

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Categories: maladjusted, hurt, wisdom, word play,
Form: Blank verse
Unforgiving World.....
The tired and the hungry
the broken and the poor
shattered...all but scattered
a home without a door

South of the equator
exploited and ignored
squatters live in squalor
engrossed in civil...

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Categories: maladjusted, life, people, sad, social,
Form: Free verse

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