Best Mediocrity Poems

A glint in the black, like stars
    Pearly, polished, pointy peaks of a fiend
      Fangs of self-deprecation, puncturing every effort
    Coursing the flow of doubt, discouragement and defeat
I may not see your face, beast,...

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I wish I was a Poet,
but my tools are far and few,
if you could just read them,
you would know its true.

My rhymes they don't flow easy,
my rhythms sometimes flat,
I am not a poet,
its as simple as that.

I read from other poets,
the answer's plain to see,
my...

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Never Accept Mediocrity,
(Control What You Can)
Written: by Tom Wright
January 2015

We were each,
Handed the gift of life, at birth,
So we had no voice
In circumstances that greeted us.

We can, to a large extent, 
Control what we become as adults.
Good environment is essential
In determining life’s quality;

We fail, by...

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We all pay for dumbing down
  educational standards all around
from thriving metropolis to sleepy small town

Incompetency reigns throughout customer service
  Doctors' inaccurate diagnoses make patients nervous
Corporation mission statements, worthless lip service

It starts in the classroom, where teachers won't demand
  if you want...

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In this modern day world where being average is applauded,
Wannabe’s and the fame hungry incomprehensibly rewarded.
These days it seems the talent less succeed, 
Their lack of skills, and humility, beaten by only their greed.

The young and indulgent, saying  ‘I want to be different’,
If only...

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Titanic battle unfold as foreseen and planned 
Almost the egg and the chick story ever told 
A complex battle and partnership that desecrates 
While they flex for supremacy of a land barren

Tomorrow’s temples lie in reckless shambles   
Good has never been discredited to...

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Can't stand this mediocre life,
These mediocre friends,
Mediocre skills which mean that
Disappointment never ends,

Mediocrity is like my house,
Confidence is my door,
People keep knocking at it
Whilst I cower on the floor,

My dreams are mediocre,
For they never will occur,
Being kept alive for entertainment
Like a pet with thorns for...

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Ten feet tall shadows
Dump cigarettes from their eyes, smoke pouring out their pupils
Spew alcohol from their mouths, dirty teeth cleaned white by whiskey, vodka, and rum
Soiled again by vomit, and the filth they spread
These monsters of beings live on concrete sidewalk squares
They are stitched to...

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did the Greek philosopher Socrates
ever have thoughts of his own mediocrity,
did Buddha in meditation contemplate
belly-button lint in his belly button sedate?

maybe some Confucian spiritual medium
pondered dust in minute trivial tedium.
did Newton while conjuring Newtonian physics
diverge integrals to converge sum to basics?

who might think the relativity...

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Stuck in the mud,
and you don't know why that is
You got mediocre dreams,
you never aspired to be much
All you ever did was only think of yourself,
and now you're wondering how
you got left behind by everyone else

You always were the 
worst kind of ne'er do good
Just...

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Drinking,
the creative mind follows close behind
and it shuts out the obvious,
notorious for falling into easier ways.
Playing the game of their fathers before them,
they slowly sink away
into a place that’s much harder to find,
will it subside?
Could we revive all the broken traits and mend them,
come alive?
If...

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Can we admit to failure?
Are you capable of accepting defeat?
Everything works out in the long run,
So its fate that brought you where you are.
A series of mishaps,
Fumbling around in the dark,
Every unfinished sentence,
It all leads to you.
Convinced by the nature of existence,
You believe it to...

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Blended belongings
Show your Light shining through
How do fools survive?...

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Somebody should kindly tell if we hail from greed.
For so many years’ darkness has thrown its effect on a nation,
Everyone on the globe tries to please each other.
Sounds of slavery is tearing the heart of humanity into distress.
Cruelty rules all over the beautiful cities straight...

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Computer screen, life in a daze
A mundane life to the outside Haze
 Mediocrity and boredom a constant
 Life started so great, but now disenchantment
  
 I look back on my more youthful times
 The giddy heights I promised on where I set my sights
...

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