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Best Subpar Poems

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Premium Member The Poetry Soup
Belly up to the table, our soup is well liked.
Just don’t drink the cool aid, I think it’s been spiked.

Come and get it while it’s...

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Categories: subpar, appreciation, friendship, fun, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Trumpeting Tool
Friends, fellow poets and countrymen, please lend me your ear.
I do not live in Australia, and I wish to make that perfectly clear.
I will not...

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Categories: subpar, anti bullying, political,
Form: Rhyme
I Just Don'T Get English
It is pointless to write with dull pencils
When a pen keeps the sheep safe at night.

And water can flow from a hole in the ground
As...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subpar, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Regular Man
I read a poem when but a youth
    That inspired me to something simple see
    When I was young...

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Categories: subpar, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Eulogy For An Unsung Hero
Eulogy For An Unsung Hero ©

The late John Sidney McCain III,
     now flies with Arrow Smith,
     Babbitt,...

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Categories: subpar, 12th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Elegy



Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part Two
from conscionable, fashionable, 
and inimitable laudable official,
regal unequivocal x all did (re: exalted)
gratuitously justifiable management, 

this citizen banker does hint intend zealous altercation, 
but bestir...

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Categories: subpar, america, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sour Grapes
What gratitude is of greater reprise,
Appraisal sought within four wall confines.
Yet tests congure my personal demise,
Subpar intelligence is redefined.
Determined only by pure blood descent,
Whose family...

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Categories: subpar, career, discrimination, dream, education,
Form: Sonnet
Year Ending
December.

My coldest winter ever.

My slow descent
into destruction,
my epic battle with the devil.

Thought I’d never meet her.

Wondered
if I would make it out.
Got so used to being...

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© Joy Nicole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subpar, december, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
Sounds of Something
Sounds of something somewhere sound so absurd
    Silence in the section of the unspoken spoken word

    Seriously over sensitive...

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Categories: subpar, education, metaphor, sound, spoken
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Diamond - Reversible
I am a diamond
In the rough, I start
Like a chip left short, 
My subpar anatomy
I will not be defined by
What sparkles in the light
The dark...

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Categories: subpar, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
Doctors Particularly Biomedical Engineers
Doctors (particularly biomedical engineers)...
really trolley train hard to keep track of patients

Eye tell ya we (spuds)
pulled up stakes after four yar
and zero scores ago living...

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Categories: subpar, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Contemplation of An Augmentation
Living layers of being tugged around scraps of lusterless metal shape the man who was
Or is it the other way around
He can not tell anymore
Improvements...

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Categories: subpar, future, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Someone Is Disgruntled
This is written in defense of the contest sponsors who are being disrespected by a 'poet' who feels his entries were not judged fairly. In...

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Categories: subpar, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sanctuary
From a teen of 14 until this year 2020, I'd say that I had a secondary sanctuary. Being secondary does not by any means place...

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Categories: subpar, christian, faith, god,
Form: Couplet
Take It E-Sea
The night sea makes the stars ‘my private universe’
And yet, one feels the multitudes gazing the same way
Kneading thoughts of multiverses staring in reverse

Enchantment on...

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Categories: subpar, adventure,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Shattered Sighs