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Best Poor Excuse For Poems

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Fallen Sand Castles
Hope built upon the sand
as castles before the waves.
 Heart filled with Puppy love
and hymns sung beneath
Daddy's watchful eye.

Nothing Holy remains
Happy a forgotten word.
Love drowned...

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Categories: poor excuse for, confusion, daughter, family, food,
Form: Free verse



Symptom
Some things are just  symptoms,
Take a look and don't invent some,
Poor excuse for the lack of truth,
When you let it gain momentum... 
Don't blame...

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Categories: poor excuse for, people
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The - Mexican
THE  MEXICAN

I went over to my friends house last night.
I love it when he smiles with a grin,
He holds the door open, and welcomes...

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Categories: poor excuse for, funnyme, love, me, ,
Form: Free verse
Peek Freans Fig Roll
Peek Freans Fig Roll


You make me laugh

You think that the evil humanity does

Has nothing to do with you

And your excuses

And your prayers

For salvation

Merely continue the...

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Categories: poor excuse for, hopeme,
Form: Free verse
Incredulity
Incredulity


I draw in oxygen
The sweet and foul odours
The same as you
I breathe
And in its life giving rapport
I exist
Of blood exchanges in corpuscle energies
Transmitted
Maintains
Thoughts awareness and...

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Categories: poor excuse for, lifesweet, earth, giving, life,
Form: Free verse



Father
Father
Father that is what my dad was
Father that is what you are not
Your sons had no one as a role-model
What kind of father you claim...

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Categories: poor excuse for, father, slam,
Form: Free verse
Prized Possession
Prized Possession


When was it that society and religion
Became so afraid of the sexuality of women

Or was it just men who became afraid

Trapping and turning beauty...

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Categories: poor excuse for, history, life, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path...

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Categories: poor excuse for, abuse, adventure, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Curruption
Debauched, extortionate and inconstant 
was the knavish and foul mercenary?
The perfidious praetorian reprobate
was a venal unscrupulous slug.
Debased in character and depraved in spirit
this purveyor of...

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Categories: poor excuse for, angst, introspection, life, on
Form: Narrative
Shallow Man
Shallow Man



I am for want of a better explanation
A stupid and inconsiderate man

For all my confessions I profess to love
I am selfish
Thoughtless

I hide behind eloquence
Poetry...

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Categories: poor excuse for, lifeme,
Form: Free verse
A Cry In the Night
You wake me nearly every night
    with your incessant guttural cries.
Tell me what’s wrong and how
   is it the spotted...

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Categories: poor excuse for, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Job Perks
Furtive, I would slip away
any poor excuse
would do, make my way
across the lawn
into building twenty-two

Secretive and circuitous
I took an odd and winding
route... While bustling
they had...

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Categories: poor excuse for, appreciation, career, funny, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Drunk Words, Sober Thoughts
There’s just something about a girl who can talk about her passion,
who can look into her future and can tell you what’ll happen.

I know it’s...

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Categories: poor excuse for, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Bloodshed
This cold wretched war was too much for our waking nightmare to even compare, compare to the horrid bloodshed that ran deep into the ground...

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Categories: poor excuse for, death, recovery from, war,
Form: Free verse
Longing Crow
Red fish, blue fish, green fish, yellow fish
a rainbow in the pond, lets swim upstream
change the course of evolution, grow two feet and wings
proceed to...

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Categories: poor excuse for, longing,
Form: Free verse

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