Best Understate Poems

You think you can get it 
straight 
You just can't get it right 
Your goals lost sight 
Failure is an understate

There's not much you can do
You try another angle
A force is against you 
On a thread you dangle

You reach;you hold on
To any thing stable
You pull...

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My monster has a funny name, 
It is Eileen; she has no shame
She tries her best to bring me down
gifts me the thorns, instead of crown
She lies awake; won't let me sleep
and into bed with me she'll creep
this monster whispers lunacy
and says I'm ugly as...

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by Michaelw1two

 Poetic writes speak volumes too,
 this profound nature of humanity;
 expression’s glyph or determination’s rift,
 each soothing rhyme or base profanity;
 provoke of consciousness that drift,
 so casually or with rude insanity;
 furiously incite or simultaneously delight,
 set straight a thought or induce...

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Was it loneliness that convinced me to pursue
Yet one more futile try, another mismatched mate
The years pass quickly and the choices become few
On eligibility’s scale I fail to rate
A magical connection I cannot create
My heart grows fatigued, a feeling so alarming
Should I place my future...

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The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two


I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall I underrate the spate of your hate as you devastate; leaving the ‘diva’ in a state?
You segregate, that’s active hate....

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We are all improbable in our own way, 
and who can augur the future?  
I never could have laid out my course in advance, 
though in looking back it all makes sense, 
even if it was me flipping a coin (or if somebody flipped...

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how i feel, silly, spoken word, write,
Submitted for contest
Punctuation Personified!

Mind your use of me when making a full stop with finishing your  point
This can either overstate or understate your completed thought
I find I mean you no disrespect stating when you are to be done...

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It seems that man can never comprehend
The carnal thrust of lust we all must trust;
As human minds design no plan to end
Carnality 'till man converts to dust. 

When facets of our lives are added new, 
Atop existing layers of the truth, 
Environments of learning do...

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there are mornings that I wake
          within the confines of my bed
               with a stabbing and excru-
     ciating...

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I know some will dismiss this 
As nonsensical chatter
Call it philosophical blabber
Think of it as mind over matter
Ask questions and trash the answers 
Because they, quote unquote
Challenge the status quo
It’s insane but I get it
I see life in its totality
See, I have an eye for...

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Sometimes I shiver
Like a hummingbird
My open heart races
With anticipation
I open and flutter
Tingling sensations
Transformed inspiration
Powerful ocean waves
Erode weak defenses
The best of intentions
Mysterious ways
Quietly understate
Depths of perception
The way we connect
And communicate
The absence of words
The invisible hands
Soft crust of desire
Warmed by the fire
Glowing for hours
As good as it...

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Time to move on the spirit has said, 
we have finished our time in this fate,
 and written in word, the pathway has lead, 
the sadness I'll not understate... xox Don

Amazing how relevance comes and goes...
at some stage we are the all and everything, 
and...

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Wordsmith's Veneration...

Aye willy nilly understate (trying 2)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with "FAKE" trumpeting
spellbinding, rambling, quivering...
intoxicating, hallucinating, gyrating,
stop to take a breather...

English Language vocabulary, a
fascination, intoxication, provocation...
upon me ocular, neurological, mental...
faculties of this nattering nabob
from outer limits of twilight zone
i.e. literary krazy Jewish jabberwocky

issuing haphazard global toll till...

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when they met
the discussion went as such
a.“do you see yourself having 
children?”
b.”no.  there are far too many things
that i want to do in this life.  a
child would just complicate matters.
besides, the responsibility!  i can 
barely keep myself together, much 
less prop up...

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My love, Josefin Slab
My first thought the time I wake up
My inspiration in moments I create art
My joy when we chat and laugh together
My strength when I'm on job
The last person I contact before my sleep
The only girl in my mind
The beautiful creature I found
With...

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