Best Platitudes Poems

Tired platitudes for the pain to drown,
The bridled tongue will keep the fire bound.
A dose of bromide helps the words go down.

Exalting paupers with a golden crown.
Creating hero’s with exalted sound.
Tired platitudes for the pain to drown.

If our words of truth would be met with...

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falls flat
your platitudes,
slinking platyhelminthes,
flat worms in scant two dimensions,
crumpled
...

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Roses are red? Violets are blue??
The proverbs of poets aren’t totally true!...

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Platitudes of Exactitude

Platitudes of exactitude redefining my whole attitude 
Don’t want to seem rude but I can’t help but conclude 
That the truth will protrude 
From a form that just wants to be misconstrued 

Everything is in litigation 
Or it’s about representation of information 
While...

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Platitudes of gratitude
       reveal a shallow attitude
  
     A plentitude of finger food
       does not result in pulchritude

     Multitudes of semi-nudes
   ...

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Sealed within an hourglass
a shower of sand descending 
scraping away my supple skin 
as when one refinishes a hardwood floor
scouring off the old varnish and stain 
Its grit scratching  
like the claws of a cat at my corneas
already malformed before my birth 
so that...

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A Walk on Shallow Waters
David J Walker

We are wrapped in paper and twine 
A perfect package on the outside
Left on the stoop of an irony 

Gathered together we are 
with candles and cake 

We are a year older and celebrate 
With feelings that need not...

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