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Best Perfunctory Poems


Premium Member How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostrophe's.

Next colons: and semis; are put through their paces,
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Categories: perfunctory, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Perfunctory At Best
No romance, just mating
Perfunctory at best,
No love, just procreating,
No need to line the nest.

No artistic self expression
Just a path from a to b,
A monosyllabic procession,
Mental catastrophe.

Constricted imagination
Creativity windblown,
A fallow field's stagnation
No seeds of beauty sown.

In single files our minds
March to a humdrum beat,
Originality left behind
Our...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perfunctory, imagination, loss, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Narrow Minded and Perfunctory
Narrow Minded and Perfunctory

Is short-sighted, narrow minded and perfunctory,
And then Trump inserted lies into his each story;
A weird sort,
Someone did abort;
Only President permanently remaining in purgatory.

Which is worse. Tower of Babel or Tower of Trump
in a golden shower in a dossier.


Jim Horn...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perfunctory, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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Premium Member Perfunctory
It's time that you were disabused,
of notions that I am bemused,
but if you feel I am confused,
it will not leave my ego bruised.
I hope that I can be excused;
it seems my muse simply refused.
‘Obligatory’ has been used…...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perfunctory, missing, muse,
Form: Monorhyme

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