Best Perfectionist Poems

The Perfectionist is Listening

the rich are committing suicide
and taking us with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the masters of the universe
presently...

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"I'm too much of a giver and a lover"
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It's not about defining the perfectness of me
For there is not more to what I can be
in...

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The Mask I wear is of a Comedian
Not showing the world I hurt
For when you laugh or cry looks the same
Sarcasm is rooted in pain.

The...

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Dedicated to my Friend, Andrea Dietrich


A blessing meant to materialize is how I define Andrea’s role in my life.  Andrea is a bright light...

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In this field of plantation; 
Where I walk and plant various 
parts of myself around this 
world; 
I sometimes look back and notice 
the trail;...

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(not to take too seriously; I think I am immune 
to my "enemies" by now!)

How near to us are foes we can’t resist
when cells, like...

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I'm not crazy about political poetry
Because politics feel a bit ... soiled to me
But as a requirement for the contest
I will say the following, as...

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I was a meticulous city planner, like future plans we make for jasmine days,
And I loved beautifying the big city, like blooming parks where nature...

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Perfectionist, I will never be.
Alas, not even in the land of poetry!

Why can I not a mistake make?
It's a poem, after all, not a bridal...

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I am…
Son, sculpted by my mother to be what I am today
Husband, holding my wife’s caring hands all the way
Father, in lonely nest, all the...

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It all started from the age of nine, I fell in love with locks and cuffs,
in and out I go, I saw what I have...

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Go ahead, make me your slave
Cast my freedom; dig my grave
For my life is not my own
Nor are the seeds that I have sown

I am...

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He was a good man, he was strong.
He knew the difference between right and wrong.

His quiet presence reassured,
Rightly so, he was self assured.

A hard worker,...

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Thus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and, 
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words 
Of...

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Champion you are full of the sun's rays

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