Best Underappreciated Poems

The light to my life is flickering;
It shone bright for many years.
The fog around me is thickening,
But, please, spare me the tears.
I am fortunate to...

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Warmth, surrounded me…always
My lips, my eyes, closed… 
Mesmerized by the darkness that brought me consolation
I remember there were colors under those lids,
Green, spurts of purple…and...

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We are the unsung heroes of the predawn light.
No we may never have fought in a great war,
or saved a soul from the snapping jaws...

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In Native American mythology 
The species of feline named Lynx symbolizes
The ability to see clearly, as well as being
The knower of secrets, in terms of...

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Breath

I breath deeply and hold,
this isn’t so hard, 
it’s relative ease making me bold.

Slightly harder now,
 pulse pounding in my head,
sweat rolling down my brow.

I...

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Pay attention! 
Important chicken poetry coming up, 
though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct 
into raucous biddy enjambment. 


4 
Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away...

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Lonely as ever, yet alone, he is never.
Spending every waking hour surrounded by superficialism,
Never reaching the true feeling of existentialism,
But always fringing on the edge...

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It’s old,
It’s cliché.
It’s overused,
And therefore,
Underappreciated.
But that doesn’t mean
It’s not true.
And so,
From the bottom of my heart,
I love you.
I love you so much.
I trust you with...

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Underappreciated                        ...

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Cloaked in grinding whispers
Such inhabitants feel
Their way
Gallop the day
By thrusting, trusting
Emblazoned minds
Envious looks deflected
As the clan stays on task
The full-time preoccupation
And execution of self-expression
Daring risks...

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Rolls of underappreciated, 
despised, 
untrusted, 
unwanted globs of wasted space lies beneath

Rolls of ugliness,
sadness,
deceit, 
tragedy,
nostalgic fluff swimming underneath these

Rolls of hate,
weakness,
abandonment,
scrutiny,
dignity left to die under...

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Life can be a hard struggle. Life can pass you by. Life is like a cruel parent just watching as you cry.  
Life can...

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must i arise every dawn
to do nothing but shine upon
and warm all those who shiver
i, a scorching giver

and rarely am i truly praised
seldom i am...

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We're so underappreciated
  You'd think we're in-laws
Yet without us you could have
  The most powerful set of jaws

Yet it'd be nigh impossible
 ...

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We all love the magic of stories. They've been with us since the dawn of time. 

This poem is written in support of those writers...

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