Best Nugatory Poems

Your death pushed me into this nugatory black hole.
Stinging sorrow whirling long, sadly out of control.
You fought one courageous battle, in deep pain.
Brave in your sickness, you never complained.

Memories of you, humorous, loving and uniquely smart.
This cold sadness slithers foul inside my frail heart.
I grapple...

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nugatory coin tossed,
up in the air —
perpetrator hoping for
purgatory.
hell lands on his head.

Kim Rodrigues (c) 12/4/2019

nugatory - having no value...

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"Nugatory" my teacher did decry,
As she threw my story up in the sky.
"Why must you write and hand in futile tripe?"
The comment itself, an offal snipe swipe.

At the break, I rushed to the library
To find the word in the dictionary.
There it was found between 'Nugget'...

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