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Best Nothing Doing Poems

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Forget Naught
-Forget naught-

So soon after supper, you’ve forgotten
Those ones you called your alter egos.
Said adieu and you did not stay o!
So soon you forgot those ones?						

The...

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Categories: nothing doing, education, freedom, inspiration, language,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Brain Farts
Here I sit, the screen is blank
Nothing is coming to mind
I search and search my tiny brain
For a theme of any kind

Nothing doing, my brain...

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Categories: nothing doing, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
I Love Africanamerican Christian Culture: Forgiving Slaveholders and Tyrants
Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF

Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus'...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nothing doing, africa, bible, black african
Form: Verse
A Sign
The madman chalked red X’s
on the sidewalks of the houses 
if he suspected 
or had evidence
that people there 
were unkind to each other, 
or their...

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Categories: nothing doing, allegory, angst, life, peoplelost,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Brain Farts
Here I sit, the screen is blank
Nothing is coming to mind
I search and search my tiny brain
For a theme of any kind

Nothing doing, my brain...

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Categories: nothing doing, humorous,
Form: Quatrain



Complete Dependence
Complete Dependence

“God, the Master, The Holy of Israel, has this solemn counsel: "Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly...

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Categories: nothing doing, faith, inspirational, heart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake: Part Thirty-Three
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake : Part Thirty-Three 

Just then out of the arboured portals of the hotel emerged the wily woman
Clad head through bent...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nothing doing, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Yesterday When I Was Dumb - a Benign Parody By T Wignesan
YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS DUMB - A Benign Parody

(with sincere enough apologies and more to those who made the original composition an all-time great. T....

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nothing doing, irony, parody, silence, song,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Drowning In Debt
He goes through each day 
obsessing over how to 
increase his earnings. 
Times are hard. 
He's drowning in debt; 
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug...

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Categories: nothing doing, life, money, perspective, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Brain Freeze
Here I sit, the screen is blank 
Nothing is coming to mind
I search and search my tiny brain
For a theme of any kind

Nothing doing, my...

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Categories: nothing doing, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sound the Alarm
Determined, armed
      with Evidence!

Global Warming Warriors
   Man the barricades
   Sound the alarm
   Storm the...

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Categories: nothing doing, change, fate, perspective, weather,
Form: Free verse
Moi Royale
Moi Royale

If I call you thousand times daily doesn't mean I have enough airtime to waste, its just that I love hearing your sweet voice,

If...

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Categories: nothing doing, 12th grade,
Form: Chant Royal
Silent Cries (Part 3)
Looking for one reason to live this life
A life I dreadfully despise
Searching….searching, but no results found
So I think I should just throw in the towel
So...

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Categories: nothing doing, depression, life, voice, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Its Over Between the Hearts
I miss when he calls me duchess 
I miss when he screams out Bambi
I miss when he softly says babe
I miss when he whispers babim
I...

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Categories: nothing doing, depression, heartbroken,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member War and Peace
equality of doing..

perhaps radical

but resonance seems

as beauty and freedom..

no separation

as appearances are

nothing

nothing doing..thus

doing appears as

everywhere equal

and not equal..

war and peace

seem to be

expressing this......

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Categories: nothing doing, analogy, conflict, encouraging, motivation,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things