Best Shirking Poems
The Black Sheep
...Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.
Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction......
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Categories:
shirking, confusion, friendship, people, sad,
Form:
Couplet
Habits
...HABITS
We wake up in the morning,
Our memory, collecting storing,
The same data over, and over again,
It becomes entrenched – a habit is due,
What triggers habits, just a simple cue!
We pass......
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Categories:
shirking, power,
Form:
Rhyme
My Hugs Story
...Before… I beheld her quivering, shirking---
suffocation gripped her with my envelopment;
breaking free from the gentleness I exuded
she would scamper wailing…
as if scorched by my belongi......
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Categories:
shirking, blessing, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Personification
Humanly Sacrifice
...
Fireworks dance and flourish in the air
Like the pairs of lovers in the innocent sky
The nostalgic tune plays from the flute
Like the tormented smile of the little brave girl
When hap......
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Categories:
shirking, humanity,
Form:
Verse
This Is Graduate School!!
...This is Graduate School
What do you expect?!!
This is graduate school!!
The girl, glowed in her importance!!
This work was important!!
And who did he think he was, shirking work!
Our importan......
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Categories:
shirking, satire
Form:
Blank verse
Zing Is the Thing - a Homily
...Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But Whiskey makes you frisky.
Clerihews and epigrams are fine but
Do not tell these to one lost in love
Except when you mean to cheer up one
Fevered with te......
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Categories:
shirking, character, friendship, inspiration,
Form:
Abecedarian
So Many Questions
...(A both serious and fanciful encounter with God)
1. There are so many questions that I have for God,
Oh my love, don't you feel the same way?
While it's true that we may just have met in......
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Categories:
shirking, religion, universe, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
Fire Fight
...How very inconsiderate,
dieing in the open;
shirking anonymity
behind the raging green.
You avoided the cacophony,
left random bullets blameless,
then when your God
abandoned You,
He left
......
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Categories:
shirking, war
Form:
Free verse
Blasting Off
..."I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity
for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power
for doing good."--Socrates
BLASTING OFF
What if human beings
Were not broken sinn......
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Categories:
shirking, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Tenth Wave
...THE TENTH WAVE
The rain drops prick the skin of the sea
Tumble with the urchins in the water,
The black water, so heavy, tired--
Watching it tic tac toe in millions of tiny rings
Tic tac t......
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Categories:
shirking, ocean,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Land's End
...
"Land's End"
All at once & with such Very Great Flair ~
So's no-one would notice what'd really taken Place~
SeaWolf & his Wench grabbed a wild Notion from thin Sea Air~
That with which they......
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Categories:
shirking, adventure, sea, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Take the Blame
...I have a gripe that I’ll explain
I hate excuses that are so lame
Nothing more my ire inflames
Then people crying, “I’m not to blame”.
Put your excuses in the vault
I don’t want to hear, “It’s ......
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Categories:
shirking, introspection
Form:
Rhyme
Mutiny In Trees
...The water has receded
And I can see everything
in the bottom of the stream
Big pebbles of assorted colors
covering each other
frogs scampering about
and big fish meddling around
I stared in th......
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Categories:
shirking, change, environment, goodbye, leaving,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Today I Am Content
...The folks in the know
And running the show
Propose there are eight human emotions.
But as far as I see,
Their lists don’t agree
And in my head causes commotions.
So since you insist
I shall ma......
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Categories:
shirking, introspection, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Trouble Maker
...You all know me quite well
I'm a creature from Hell
A troublesome sprite
Your lives I do blight
If you've got trouble
your woes I will double
Your machines are my joy
With them I will toy
......
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Categories:
shirking, mythology,
Form:
Verse