Best Purposeless Poems
Below are the all-time best Purposeless poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of purposeless poems written by PoetrySoup members
Torn and Tattered WingsTorn 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 InvictusHollow 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
Wisp of LoveHow 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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Categories:
purposeless, desire, emotions, loss, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Panta Rei,Ouden MeneiWe 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 SoulI 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 NarrowingGlowing 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
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
Categories:
purposeless, historyriver,
Form:
Narrative
I Miss YouOh 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
A Naughty Little GirlI 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 VersesFlawless 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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Categories:
purposeless, humanity, imagination, meaningful, metaphor,
Form:
Epic
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 TrustTrust, 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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Categories:
purposeless, betrayal, blessing, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse