Best Malingering Poems
I Think Therefore I Am
...I THINK THEREFORE I AM
"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda
Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discov......
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Categories:
malingering, character, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Chocolate Girl
...
Her luxurious penthouse
is like a cocoon with plenty of pretty distractions,
so she keeps her door firmly closed,
because she prefers fantasy
over the handicap of reality.
Afraid of light,
......
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Categories:
malingering, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
the raw madness that makes me who I am
...It amuses me when people ask
“How are you?”
Fortunately for us both
They never ask
“Who are you?”
For that answer relies upon a deep dive
Into the hollows of a heart
The scorched remains of ......
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Categories:
malingering, age, growing up, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Dolce Far Niente
...The only ounce of energy I'll be expending today
is having picked up a pen to scrawl these lines...
"I have declared this to be Dolce Far Niente Day."
Enjoying the sweet life, doing no......
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Categories:
malingering, day, sweet,
Form:
Rhyme
John, the Work Horse
...My name is John--the work horse
And I was teamed with Prince.
We could easily do a job at which
An Arabian horse would flinch.
Prince's work is over now.
He's buried in the pasture.
I am too o......
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Categories:
malingering, horse,
Form:
Personification
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 appr......
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Categories:
malingering, culture, earth, health, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Same Ol' Song and Dance
...As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and d......
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Categories:
malingering, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
This Is Unfinished Feminist Us
...So I was feeling badly,
sad,
because I share our mutually complicit status
for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing
chronic stress disordering
time.
I too have been there,
lost there,
to a m......
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Categories:
malingering, anger, culture, education, fear,
Form:
Political Verse
Ptsd
...PTSD, this is nothing that's new,
it's just a new label to stick on you
They now blame it on the wars today,
unless for your trauma they have to pay.
Then all of a sudden, it changes it's name,
......
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Categories:
malingering, anger, depression, feelings, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Cee Pain I Disdain Made Plain
...PAIN I DISDAIN MADE PLAIN
Upon a road of crooked adventure ventured I
With my words flowing from the forest to the naked plain
Two statesmen and one stately lady censured I
Claiming, perhaps co......
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Categories:
malingering, angst, me, people, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Tropic Fantasy
...I catch myself with thoughts of us
standing by the shore
Feeling so content with life
and never wanting more
Battles of our former lives
grow distantly behind
With gentle waves
of tranquil ......
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Categories:
malingering, fantasy, leaving, love, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Beautiful Eyes
...Beautiful Eyes
Yin and yang had resolved the conundrum of diametrically opposed promises
No longer one sided her receiving end glimpsed into the barrel of a shiny gun
Far from being a passive......
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Categories:
malingering, change,
Form:
Free verse
Sea
...The wondrous sea captivates my soul
as I sit beneath the malingering palms
I can close my eyes
and dine on imaginations from its offered sounds
I can listen quietly to the soft throb of the wa......
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Categories:
malingering, beauty, nature, sea,
Form:
Free verse
More Audacious Hope
...Senator Obama's Audacity of Hope
ends with listing memories,
visual images,
that rekindle his love for this imperfectly united Place
For his Country,
this humane Habitat
for mutual care-givin......
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Categories:
malingering, beauty, destiny, education, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Not Patriots--Amoeba Types
...The insurrectionists of January 6 are NOT patriots!
They are criminals of the lowest amoeba-types
Most patriots were at work improving the G.N.P.
Not carousing and malingering to air their......
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Categories:
malingering, anger, how i feel,
Form:
Quatrain