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Best Purposeless Poems

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Torn and Tattered Wings
Torn and Tattered Wings

It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize 
Hard into your heart

I...

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Categories: purposeless, inspirational, loveworld,
Form: Free verse



Splattered
"Oh, how you splinter me...."
Looking, through your looking glass
Portraits, of your present
And images, of your past
You say you see
You say you know
You say you do
But...

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Categories: purposeless, life
Form: I do not know?
....Splattered....
"Casting down imaginations...." ~ II Cor. Ch. 10 ~
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Oh, how you splinter me....

Looking through your looking glass

Portraits of your present and, images of your past!?

You...

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Categories: purposeless, anniversary, life, loss, sympathy,
Form: I do not know?
Sol Invictus
Hollow odes lament where waves crash depthless

Oh! How ocean lacking light spills woe so!

Lackluster grays wail unkempt longingness

Lone stander bleeds the dreams of times ago

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Categories: purposeless, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Wisp of Love
How many times did I gaze on thy face
In mine daydreams? When spent sun was fiercer; 
Before night lapse in dank vesture of lace.
Mine wane...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purposeless, desire, emotions, loss, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Panta Rei,Ouden Menei
We are but fleeting shadows
Upon the face of this earth
So solid,so tangible ,yet so ready
To slip through the hands of life
When we doff our mortal...

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Categories: purposeless, meaningful, nonsense, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Unflinching Soul
I am worried 
I am in despair 
I am tensed
I am in low spirits

My song sounded melancholic 
My thought turned pessimistic 
My emotion became lifeless
My...

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Categories: purposeless, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Narrowing
Glowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy...

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Categories: purposeless, 10th grade,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Anomie
When social upheaval brews chaos of nihilism,
Forfeiting moral values, embracing skepticism;
Instability ensues, clamoring in emptiness,
Believing world is futile, life is meaningless,
As broken norms shout, voicing...

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Categories: purposeless, community, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath
THE      ICEBREAKER     KRASIN    -     DAVID    AND...

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Categories: purposeless, historyriver,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Miss You
Oh this winter;
Begone
The cold made bitter with a relentless wind;
Begone

Please, Spring, push
it back
Lean, shove, melt
it back

Summer warmth
I miss you
Severe clear days
I miss you

Horses hot breath,
Smell...

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Categories: purposeless, hope, nostalgia, seasons
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Naughty Little Girl
I sleep. The hours tick by mercilessly;
unfilled, purposeless, full of potential
 "What to do? What to do???" I mutter,
tumbling, like Alice, down the rabbit hole.
My...

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Categories: purposeless, daughter, fear, imagination, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Flawless Verses
Flawless flamboyant meaningful words in written verse’s,
Never heard by nervous useless unproductive pawns within man made curse’s,
Drawn into ignorance, clueless and purposeless,
Powerless and can’t see...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purposeless, humanity, imagination, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Gothic Grace -
She had a gothic heart,
predictability and tamming tranquility were her counterparts,
she felt pain as gain,

peace was nettlesome and purposeless,
an abomination that careless civilization is undeserving...

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Categories: purposeless, passion, woman,
Form: Ode
Trust, Trust and Trust
Trust, Trust and Trust


Jumpy journey life becomes
If the one you trusted most turns Judas.....
Juniper fades ,wilts, withers.....
for soil fertile at roots is now poisoned
Rot and...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purposeless, betrayal, blessing, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things