Best Sentimentality Poems

Face to face they stand
Brain to brain
Two-eyed flesh machine
And one-eyed plastic terminal
Interacting systems
Inputting, outputting, precious data.

Face to face they sit
A complex team
Driven to perform
With error-free precision
In a controlled mini-world
Ruled by instant communication.

Face to face they lie
Worlds apart
Stark, cold plastic eye
Flashing programmed data;
Warm, sentimental flesh eyes
Flashing non-programmable twinkles.

Face to face they act
Separate and alone-
Ruled by the...

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Oh the humanity 
the humanity 

Oh spare me the grief 
thy fake tears 
woe is me, mentality 
syrupy behaviour 
Munchausen propensity 
it sticks between my teeth 

Oh spare me the pathos
ham acting baloney
Phoney and pathetic 
pennyroyal tea fatigue 
Histrionic vagaries
self righteous piety

Oh spare me the maudlin 
attention seeking thievery 
Drowning in poignancy 
sentimental molasses 
Throw...

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Boo, hiss, spare me the phony sentimentality
Like you really think anyone gives a damn,
And, while you’re at it I say, sarcastically,
Get your side-glancing, eye-rolling response
Nothing so disgusts me as false gooeyness
That syrupy froth that freezes on demand, 
Accompanied by raw, unbridled saccharinity
Just one touch of your pure, unavoidable grace. 

Written May 22, 2022
For “Sentimentality” Poetry...

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is... gushing pink pillow
of floss, froth and nonsense
reaching new heights
to obtain its non-worth

Sentimentality -
the word leers in your ear-hole,
stupid and vain,
to rush sense away

Sentimentality -
the word veers towards vomit.

S e n t i m e n t a l i t y -
hard on the brain





5/20/2022...

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Never finished answering to the dead
Prompt from Have You Prayed? Li-Young Lee

Sit up straight
Get your elbows off the table
Good manners don't cost
Less haste, more speed
What’s the magic word?
Have you tidied your room?
What time do you call this?
Smile!

You whisper in my ear when I'm shopping
You remind me to try harder
You interrupt when I am thoughtless 
You...

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Sentimentality

Most curious 
duality ... this
Sentimentality

Excessive tenderness,
sadness, nostalgia
corrupting modality,
distorting reality's
social edifice

Brain-cramping
contortion,
fierce pressure
building,
Sentimentality
wielding an
assault on
humanity! 

Liars lie with
impunity
Childhood
lessons lost
Darkness 
perverting civility 

Root of irrational passions,
misplaced idealism—
This insidious,
ever-swelling 
tsunami of 
Sentimentality

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Deceitfully lurking
in the guise of nostalgic surge
s e n t i m e n t a l i t y
arrogantly lingers
along perceived sensible reminiscences...

Persisting to dominate
over carnal mind*
s e n t i m e n t a l i t y 
poisons thoughts
in defiance to reality
yet, such is denied with hypocrisy's pride …

Afflicting soul
with gloom...

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A sentimental writer
tries to ram manufactured feelings
down our throats.
Those of us inclined toward an appreciation
of authentic emotions
will feel the bile rising 
as we try to digest what we deem to be
indigestible.

A reader or a writer who -
like a connoisseur of fine foods and wines -
enjoys what is natural 
and devoid of artificial additives
will (upon reading...

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Love should have its place among
those virtues that humans value,
but perfidious dudes scoff at
sentimentality!

What's the irony in this....
is it me that idiot
who shows his full devotion
by being faithful? 
   


Copyright ( c ) 20015 by Andrew Crisci...

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....is both dried berries and nut tree,
by the leafage, the sunlit the phizog,
oaks skirted the edifice's entree.

he never mentions his mother as unreal.
as I involve my mother, did he prevent her?

mawkishness -
spawned a popping sound,
What a foolish,
& semantic quibble.

mawkishness -
To defy reason,
& sanity.

m a w k i s h n e s s -
It's nearly...

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*Image of Apples by Morning Chores.

Sentimentality

O' sentimental I,
the judge of my 
confidences, toils
to no end,

embroiled in fickle
negotiations that
constants my door,
mercilessly,

slants and opacity
advents the path
of mirage victims,
relic a past,

a remiss garden
of ripened apples fall,
bittersweet looms
unnoticeably,

like so many apples
that fell, festers ...
a gardener tastes his
lost Eden.

2022 May 23
*2nd Place*
Sentimentality
~~Julia Ward: Judged 2022 June 05...

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Back, back to the joyful wood
where once you played at Robin Hood.
One-time playground, a beauty spot,
is now an Asda parking lot.

Back, back to the school bike shed
behind which you kissed or smoked instead.
You could buy a pack for half a crown.
The school's not there; the shed burned down.

Back, back to your very first catch,
together you...

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SENTIMENTALITY

Memory of your deeds remains
sentiment to our bosom;
For there's sentimentality on our face,
the emotion of our inside cries for your affections.

Today,we see you no more
but to sentiment we still feel as ever;
for my body moves to see and feel you again,
but time and day permit not,
with no 'malentendu' we feel your past.And to
Him of the...

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There is hope beyond the words
Spoken by hearts, afraid and lost
In the silent thoughts, the darkness
Where doubts cast clouds, shadows
Across the sun’s reflections, prayers
For sweetest faith restored, the open door
To light that silences the turbulence
Of a past filled with grief and regret
Shame that sucks out all the wealth
Wisdom alive beyond the guilt, the distress
A life...

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True feelings concealed craftily
beneath the saccharine sheathe,
toxic fantasy of self items fostered
by the colors of chameleon skin.

Sprawling spurious emotions,
pretentiously paraded skillfully,
away from the edge of reason,
epitomize the camouflaged ego.

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May 29, 2022
Contest : Sentimentality
Sponsored by : Julia Ward...

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