Best Rut Poems

Deja Vu we're here again
This well worn path we tread
It's the one that moves in circles
Why can't we go in squares instead?

We cover ground we've trod before
But never really move
We find it hard to alter course
So we slot back in our groove.

We know this path...

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this daylight is relentless
the trees are still out there
with their ochre
with their unwavering brace
on the land, frayed
yet how I am steadfast, not
and more
I am kissing the wind



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Late September the hills ring with bellows
as stags roar their challenges with gusto
collecting up the does into large herds
ready to give battle to the very death.

Walkers be wary as you too are an intruder
many have been pierced by their sharp antlers
The nine pointer in his...

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We’ve created life that makes us see each other indifferently
In your world, I am an intruder while in mine, you are the coarseness. 
Making conflicts that are war like with little understanding of why we even came to know each other. 

Wherever my element throws...

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You say it's not fair

but why are you

in this moment

in this space

now?

 

Choices you make

is all it is

circumstance you say

and a higher power

the devil made you do it

 

the decision was yours

suck it up

take it like a man

or a woman 

 

are you here now

in...

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A maddening re-tune this flip-optimist.
Placid savant of scowl repeated.
Thickset, daunt in idle, overly pist.

Identical figuring head of lists.
Circuit loops to retreat.
A maddening re-tune, this flip-optimist.

Brave speculating his death-mix.
Offspring"s statements over slipped.
Thickset, daunt in Idle, overly pist.

Color of choosier brown the analyst.
Saturates sometime smile.
A maddening re-tune,...

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Follow my voice make your
breath fail
Hips drive and
pump the air
Cylinder falls; choke and stall.

Fall in love
for a first kiss
A battle scar across your lips
Burning kerosene against 
the thin moon
stinging, weltered
rubbing alcohol in a wound

Yoke together under simple
law
God's ugly celebration
In a bedbug rut
the thaw.

A dog with...

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Cloudless western skies
Melting temperatures rise
Snakes’ rump in rut fries


By Robb A. Kopp
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I am stuck in this rut called life
     Not going anywhere
People around me move forward
     While I'm mired in despair

It's like swimming in a fish tank
     Or walking in a cage
Where the only...

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The world tells you to be different,
But teaches you to fall in line..

One brave step,
And it rushes in with dream- killing missionaries..

Ripping back the fancy curtains,
It Displays the reality lurking in the shadows..

Promising home and safety,
It dupes you into thinking survival is happiness..

And it continues...

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It's that time again,
motivation down,
i'm left wondering,
what i'm going to do now.

Commitments have been made,
I don't really care,
I can't be bothered doing anything,
I just don't want to be here.

From time to time,
this happens to me,
I feel down and out,
it's just to hard to please.

Following the...

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Monday, toiling hard earning a poor man's pay.
Tuesday, doing my share running a lousy factory.
Wednesday, coping with an ass-boss the whole day.
Thursday, taking home a paycheck just worth a penny.
Friday, drowning my sorrows with strangers as company.
Saturday, no time for wifey, a bad hangover flattening...

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society is tripping
they got new sport suits for the latest trend
my mind is scrambling like ham in eggs
Bust a nut in a rut some time before
many are tripping out with a two bit whore
people are people so why should it be
you & I live together...

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(I want you to show me)

Everyday fonder, every day
The same.
Unsated desire, hoping for change.
I am thirsting for change.
 
"Things will turn up," or so I say.
Everyday I'm fonder, but every day remains -
It is what it is, and it's all the same.
 
Everyday dreamer, I...

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You are just not, concerned about growth 
You do what you want, but don't push envelopes
Won't go beyond, or outside comfort zones 

You are a man that's stagnant 

You stick to routines, and do the same things
Refuse to do anything new, yeah that's weak
Can not...

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