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Best Pragmatist Poems


Premium Member Inconspicuous
...I'm a whisper in the wind, shouting out,
mocked by reality, I'm plagued by doubt,
struggling to grasp what life is all about.

Rendered inconspicuous as white noise
I've set aside dreams......

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Categories: pragmatist, 12th grade, character, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
In the Meantime
...I've picked the scabs until they bleed,
And then wonder why they never heal
Is it just a compulsive need
For pain to be what I mostly feel?

A Masochist- Antagonist!
Perfect Punch-drunk Pragmatist!
T......

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Categories: pragmatist, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Of the Magical and the Mundane
...She is not only the pragmatist,
she is the enchantress.

From the organizing of paperwork,
taxes, forms and receipts,
to reminding me when a birthday is due,
grounding flights of fancy
that ha......

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Categories: pragmatist, love, magic, marriage, relationship,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Malala Yousafzai
...Let me tell you a story
of a brave Pakistani female activist,
Malala Yousafzai.
She stands defiant and unabashed,
with a pragmatist approach to women's rights.
Wrapped in self-confidence......

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Categories: pragmatist, anxiety, confidence, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Ode To Napoleon
...Restlessness in spirit...
he became 'The Corsican,'
over-bearance of a mother
he was forced to take a stand!
And he became...
Anxious!

Counter-veiling parent ways,
a struggle for his life.
A paradox......

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Categories: pragmatist, fantasy, history, imagination, life,
Form: Classicism
Gootle Is Orange
...Gootle is not white
Gootle is not colored
Gootle is not yellow
Gootle is not brown
Gootle is orange
Gootle is not a Christian
Gootle is not a Hindu
Gootle is not a Muslim
Gootle is not a Jew
......

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Categories: pragmatist, satire,
Form:



Premium Member Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche......

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pragmatist, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick
No Paragons of Perfection
...We were born to be real, not to be perfect
Only one Child was given life, innocent at birth
Everyone else was born with a flaw, or a defect
and walks upon this planet called, Mother Earth

If an......

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Categories: pragmatist, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Pragmatist
...She's no loner, but she doesn't have an owner
Here's the story of how she became,
From a free cheerful butterfly to monotonous, tame.

Dancing eyes and the curve of lips rose,
Merry-merry laught......

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Categories: pragmatist, heart, love,
Form:
Found Evil With Root
...Found Evil With Root

Found evil with root
And Trump sure thought he was cute
Took all of our loot.

Business was booming
Languished while he was looming
Idiots were blooming.

We started t......

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pragmatist, allegory, analogy, , cute,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Full Flight of a Drifter
...Deep at heart Tim is a dreamer and longs for 'that' dream

And still and in certain arrest he is a child of gone times

His parents Hans and Ida had told him in misleading terms	

         ‘You......

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Categories: pragmatist, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Miraculious Collection of a Big Mess
...An Anonymous Hippotamus lived with zones which were erogenous,
Sent from Trump who is a mean old misogynist as well as a pragmatist,           Saying he should be removed from our long list. 
After......

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pragmatist, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Panglossian Perspective
...The following initially crafted approximately three and a half years ago and presently brought a  much sought after surge of satisfaction while meandering along the information superhighway.

Pangl......

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Categories: pragmatist, age, appreciation, atheist, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A poet not a painter - 1272
..." To act in a play in front of an empty theatre, surely does not evoke one's greatest performance. Human contact is imperative " ~~The Returning Poet~~

On a silken thread a purpose to be.
A woven......

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Categories: pragmatist, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Please Let Me Go
...the illness clung like poison ivy to the foundations of her resolve

poisoning hornets injected her wings and she was stung into arrest

Maria did not know what was worse the cancer or the failed......

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Categories: pragmatist, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things