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Best Mumblings Poems

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Late Night Mumblings
And yet again
It's 3am 
Before I crawl to bed,
my eyelids drag
Like airport bags,
My limbs have turned to lead

Again so late
And no dream state,
I'm sure that it...

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Categories: mumblings, funny,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member You Are a Thorn, Borne Deep In My Heart
You are a thorn, borne deep in my heart
   The prick that sticks me with each breath I take
A tether, whether I want...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mumblings, pain,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fearing the Vision
I felt our trouble brewing like a raging wind
and I, helpless to escape its stinging wrath.
In long dark corridors where he had sinned
I watched him...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mumblings, dark, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Senility
Senility

The mumblings of day’s gone bye
A living memory of a life ending
Unable to recapture the joy of time and place
The meanderings of a mind wandering,
Through...

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Categories: mumblings, time, life, life, time,
Form: Free verse
The Man In the Moon
The Man In The Moon 

Follow the crooked path 
     through a frosted gate
And hide in the shadows, 
  ...

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Categories: mumblings, longing,
Form: Rhyme



Insomnia
1am: The clock strikes like bolts of lightning as my brain rapidly

fires neurons creating a torturous play field in my tired mind.

Pangs of loneliness hit...

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Categories: mumblings, sleep, spoken word,
Form: Personification
Two Broken Souls, Part Iii
...“Time was I wouldn’t care for your sad state,
I’d have my fun and leave you to your plight,
but four years in a cell changes a...

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Categories: mumblings, dark, depression, history, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Life Sucks
With her husband still in the Psychiatric Ward following his mental breakdown, she felt the need to go in for a few hard drinks.

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mumblings, life, sad,
Form: Narrative
A Bitter Pill To Take

No one can control who seizes their heart,
Who makes it skip and beat so fast.
No one can resist loves grasp like a fist,
So hard to...

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© Jon Marsh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mumblings, friendship, life, loveheart, friend,
Form: I do not know?
The Smoking Room
Mutters in the corner,
Halfheard mumblings of conversations,
Uninteresting lives. Dull.
Smoke from tabs mixing with
Cold breath, dancing their escape.
Staring. 
Dreaming.
Slate grey walls holding up a shanty roof.
Rain...

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Categories: mumblings, work
Form: Free verse
Tone-Deaf
tone-deaf 
unintelligible 
mumblings 
escape into the air
like nails spreading 
across a chalkboard 
causing confused 
expressions to spread 
across the faces of those 
around 
break out...

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Categories: mumblings, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Alone I Cry
Tears... emboss old memories
Reminiscence, floods troubled mind
My eyes... slow leak as floodgates
Fighting nightly tides, that rise to blind
My sorrow drowns an aching throat
The uncontrolled dance...

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Categories: mumblings, cry, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Grimed Eyes Washed Clean.
Paper people frayed blowing scattered
Dilapidated faces of stucco and brick
Mumblings of drivel media jargon
While I sketched my eyes with skyline scrapes
Of tomorrow

Televisions smarmy ooze
A toxin...

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Categories: mumblings, imagination, introspection, life, time,
Form: Imagism
Passionate Mates/Lovers
Passion; it fills many hearts 
with what it brings to each lover
it slays each lover through 
the ear with a love song and 
whispers to...

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Categories: mumblings, girlfriend-boyfriend, imagination, passion, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hawaiianism of Ho'Oponopono
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The Hawaiianism of Ho'oponopono

A word, astir, in undulating waves surges and awash a clear open black shoreline...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mumblings, forgiveness, power, prayer,
Form: Didactic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things