Best Otiose Poems
Sol InvictusHollow odes lament where waves crash depthless
Oh! How ocean lacking light spills woe so!
Lackluster grays wail unkempt longingness
Lone stander bleeds the dreams of times ago
O'er the screaming wind, a seagull's bleak cries
weeps of cloudiness usurping the day
Heaven's warmth obscured, and now coldness...
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Categories:
otiose, allusion,
Form:
Sonnet
where no light penetrates
where no light penetrates
the musty chamber of an existence
gazing, otiose, in contemplation
of erogenous zones
...
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Categories:
otiose, dark, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
For the Uninitiated ImpostorsI feel a nauseating revulsion to see scraps of prose
Bundled together in a neatened pile in the name of poetry,
And prizes being awarded for such otiose verbiage
And praises being heaped for such boring coquetry.
Poetry, my dear uninitiated impostors,
Is the language of the mute solemn gods.
You...
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Categories:
otiose, anniversary, art,
Form:
Verse
Pit and PendulumForgive if I borrow, write and craft some sorrow
Beg and steal, I give you this now and tomorrow
Pen me under stars, pit me against the best
I'll write you a sonnet, put your heart to the test
Cause darlin I gotta know what it feels like
To taste...
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Categories:
otiose, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme
Gracias GringosFolks must be happy in Guatemala
With tax money frittered by Kamala
Will she visit the border
To 'stablish peace and order
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Categories:
otiose, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Irresponsible EnemyIRRESPONSIBLE ENEMY
When our tears drop
and stench fire around
us,
And fire's enemy
becomes otiose and
nugatory,
Then shall tears
backfire fire's enemy
And after a very scorch
sunshine
Telling ur the end of
those former days.
Then shall our eyelids
close in sorrow
But tears have wiped
away our...
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Categories:
otiose, history
Form:
ABC
When Our Stories Shall Be ToldWhen
our
stories
shall
be
told
and
our
chronicles
opened:sad
empty
tales.
Who
will
not
spit
and
denounce
such
shameful
tales?,
what
eye
shall
prode
on
it
without
reeling
a
curse. ...
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Categories:
otiose, social
Form:
Free verse
Angel of DeathA million thoughts run through my head,
A thousand words i wished i had said,
A hundred lines i should have read,
So many things left unfinished,
Life taken never to be replenished,
An unlikely angel in the dark of night
Resembling an outre flying kite,
Feel the breeze...
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Categories:
otiose, allegory, confusion, death, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Hollowed Hush of Heavenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCHXfkGOIw
In the hollowed hush of heaven the whisper of a soul
and in the lit up room of stars an angel's karmic face
Two feathered wings aloft deliverance her goal
while one is seized on earth, the other portal graced
An otiose moon...
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Categories:
otiose, death, life, light,
Form:
Quatrain
The Yearning SoulRegardless of my mother's death,
One hope, obduracy, and words otiose breath
The wheels of progress never stop turning
The times shift, and my sad heart is yearning
The world continues to burst forth in beauty
To regain faith, one can never flout divine duty
Lemons had just started to turn...
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Categories:
otiose, appreciation, death,
Form:
Couplet
Do I Walk Or I Walk MeDo I Walk or I Walk Me?
Suddenly I stopped
inspired by a questioning thought;
am I walking or I’m walking me?
Am I a becoming or a being?
The whole system called I or he or she
is a cosmic reality
yet a thirst aided by insight
welled up from inside;
can this...
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Categories:
otiose, mystery, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Selcouth FollyWrapt in the otiose aumbry of pride
A glede hythe a quiff will gust aside
Her folly selcouth
Binds her fast to her wanweird
To speak ever sooth
She is thrawn, my sister, my coëval
Into fell Truth’s ghyll she will smiling fall
Morrow’s dawnsun, rise!
Drown in the throes of today!
Sky...
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Categories:
otiose, age, anger, angst, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vision On An IslandNested like treasures priceless, eagle parents watch over the brood
On an island far away from the city, I beheld in a vision of azure blue
A rural settlement in waste laying, arid with black bile
A desolate, decaying riverine pride
Above sunken war canoes and ores only dead...
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Categories:
otiose, africa,
Form:
Free verse
Noblesse ObligePainstaking plumes of surest gait
To wield diamond steel over fate;
With slow pair of wit-guarded lips,
As otiose words sway great ships.
Invincible flair and exacting knack
To stand out from the frothy pack;
Ochred with all blue-penciled skill,
For nabob’s dimwits do mimic still.
With the far-scanning aquiline eye
That...
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Categories:
otiose, allegory, anxiety, blessing, care,
Form:
Didactic
Beneath LifeConstrained by the sober exercise of judgment,
And dignified by deliberation and privacy.
I yanked my soul out of its secret chamber,
And held it to the mirror of my eye.
To see it like a star or moon against the sky,
But it dwindled to alarmingly small...
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Categories:
otiose, death, life,
Form:
Free verse