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The Underachievers
The underachiever can not bind to the achiever,
Greatness is only reaching the highest level of potential,
Pushing oneself to the point of pain to get there,
Not...

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Categories: underachievers, faith
Form: Free verse



To Believe Or Not To Believe: the Power of Unbelief
your belief system is the major indication
of what you can accomplish with positive validation
if you can see it, you can achieve
if you can perceive it,...

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Categories: underachievers, inspirational, life, philosophy, god,
Form: Ode
Alcoholism
An opened fifth of hangovers
rests beside his dried driveled arm
(drug used by underachievers.)
Out cold, head resting on forearm
Unconscious in a dreamless world,
a portal often frequented:
an...

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Categories: underachievers, addiction, drug,
Form: Verse
Mental Independence
They say were strange
Lazy, underachievers, fools, odd, eccentric
They don't got a clue about us
Don't got all the facts to separate from myth
They don't care about...

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© Megan Ryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underachievers, anti bullying, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Funom Makama: a Giant and His Kingdom
Once in a while it is good if we think highly of ourselves. As for me, I always do that, especially knowing fully well what...

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Categories: underachievers, art, character, people, poetry,
Form: Ode



When the Sun Sets For You
Daily, the sun sets
And the set, the ambiance
Dimmer and darker gets
Losing all its radiance

Every so often too
Our lives’ suns set
In a season undue
Our hopes, with...

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Categories: underachievers, absence, depression, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Paycheck
stationed at kissing desks 
I feel the implode of anxiety
within this sweathouse of labor and woe

telephones chime
with the sweet rhythm of security
being enslaved can be...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underachievers, art,
Form: Free verse
One Day-The Day-Today'
A mid-April Monday morn;
Life began as usual in the college dorm.
Students recovering from their weekend parties,
The underachievers were razzing the resident "Smarties."

Grabbing their books and...

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Categories: underachievers, faithday, god, day, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Future Smartphone Technology
INVENTIONS 
ARE THE MATERIALIZATION
OF THE IMAGINATION.

IMAGINE...
IF YOU WILL...
A SMARTPHONE
THE SIZE 
OF A GRAIN OF RICE.
IMPLANTED 
IN YOUR HEAD.

WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
AND CONNECTIONS 
TO SUPER COMPUTER...

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Categories: underachievers, future, imagery, imagination, technology,
Form: Free verse
Simply Read, Simply Said'
When you read your bible, do you read as intended, simply?
Never adding your thoughts, or read something else in it?
The Lord says, "Read as babes,...

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Categories: underachievers, faithfather, father, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
College Admission Scandal
They wanted the best for their children,
hovering through the toddler years,
giving them what they wanted,
giving more to avoid any tears.

When their kids became teens, they...

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Categories: underachievers, corruption, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resolutions
Resolutions for the new year serves up zero interest to many

Endurance and resolve are twins required for real success

Settlers and softies should never undertake major...

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Categories: underachievers, courage, endurance, inspirational, success,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Obliviousness Affliction
Regrettably, you're forswearing considerateness.
Because of your deeds, my heart has been disparaged.
However, the faithful has devolved into the dreadful.
There was nothing but words scribbled on...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underachievers, analogy, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Ekphrasis
Sliding to the First day
It is summer,
and the umbrella men
are selling hotdogs.

A good-looking priest
enters Saint Pat's,
gangly young ladies giggle,
make the sign of the cross.

Thursday is AllYouCanEat pizza day
the joint...

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Categories: underachievers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Off-White Snow
Disney has transformed,
now it is a zombie cartoon
for underachievers.

The art of being artful is the thing now.

Some propagandize, many would sell
your thoughts to slave traders.
A...

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Categories: underachievers, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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