Best Ostensible Poems


Thoughts On the Sidelines

...Hope is hated when wasted on naught
When energy is drained by strained excitement
And when at last realization strikes
The ostensible happiness dissipates into despair
Doubt sweeps over as cruel fact......

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Categories: ostensible, absence,
Form: Free verse

Truth Untold

...Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty, compassion and truth
Against injustice, greed and lies
If people all over the world will do this
It will change the earth and make it a better plac......

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Categories: ostensible, corruption, truth,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Gambling Dumbass

...
You made a puerile and repugnant scene.
That was the night you broke a slot machine.
You did it in the casino right out in plain view.
There were scores of patrons around us to watch you......

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Categories: ostensible, loss, people, recovery from...,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I

...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ......

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Categories: ostensible, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose

The Bridal Sojurn

...THE BRIDAL SOJOURN
Like an American spy I have always been looking around 
Wandering around the downtown
Not because of my lost goat 
Nor because of my missing boat
But obviously I am the to-be ......

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Categories: ostensible, bridal shower,
Form: Rhyme

Who Is To Blame

...The question is, who is to blame?
     I often ask myself this question with no other thought than to torment myself. I have always concluded to admit (though it is a straight-out lie) that I ......

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Categories: ostensible, abuse, angst, assonance, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse


Come Closer To Me

...Come closer to me
Oh, come dear,

I know I'm not the one you dream
I know it's just the matter of fear
I know we're broken into pieces
I know you don't miss my messages
I know we stumbled in m......

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Categories: ostensible,
Form:

Stand Up

...Senses defeated; defile of insensible

are stepping boldly, with motives ostensible, 

to take pledge upon our platform honorable.

List of agenda is: Power extensible!

Frustrations ......

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Categories: ostensible, abuse, anti bullying, change,
Form: Monorhyme

Rules of the Morons

...Senses defeated by the defile of insensible

Who stepped in with motives ostensible 

To take pledge upon our platform honorable,

With list full of agenda for power extensible!

Frustrations......

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Categories: ostensible, abuse, anger, betrayal, political,
Form: Monorhyme

Gratefulness

...To be absolutely certain
To be firmly convicted in principle and belief 
Is the scariest feeling of all
But, like all feelings, it never lasts
The conviction stays, but the mind wanders
Deep ......

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Categories: ostensible, analogy, angst, beautiful, change,
Form: Free verse

How Can We Define?

...What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature is ......

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Categories: ostensible, adventure, devotion, education, faith,
Form: Verse

Enemies of My World

...ENEMIES OF MY WORLD

They are the enemies of my world
I do the wrong, and they the right
They love nothing more than to criticize me
They preach repentance yet they need deliverance
They are the armo......

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Categories: ostensible, pain, me, world, fear,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

The Oppressor

...They predicate despotism, while matriculating the 
servile.Presaging them to complacency.Who without the prescience of life's 
cadence,will continue to perpetuate peonage?They who poignantly and te......

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Categories: ostensible, people, social,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium Member Portraits

...Simple poses animated by light
seemingly ostensible yet enigmatic
nothing is quite as it seems.......

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Categories: ostensible, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Tigers Living Free

...TIGERS LIVING FREE

                     Spectacular symmetry of gold and black
                         Audacious magnificent movements
                                  Unique elegance in gait
    ......

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Categories: ostensible, beauty, courage, nature, power,
Form: Verse
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