Best Unsuccessfully Poems

I salute you oh mighty time:

My best friend,

My worst foe 

For

To live without you is simply

Impossible!



Throughout my existence

I have, unsuccessfully, struggled to accept

Whatever you brought...

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As the sunset of life beckons me
in marmalade farewells, orange sherbet adieus,
I stroll in uneven footsteps,
not sure of the bridges I crossed
or those burned in...

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The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With...

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There are things we can’t control
As much as we would like to
Just as there are places
Much too far for us to hike to.

And so we...

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I’ve died many times over. Every night when I lay down my weary self to rest, my consciousness is extinguished.  I experience nothing until...

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Well, he's goofy and gangly and thin up on top
And his real last name once began with a "Cop"
But I don't give a hoot about...

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It's a pretty little town in northern New York State.
To visitors of the region, everything looks great.
There was one obscure fact of which I was...

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So as I was trying to study unsuccessfully all day, attempting to get ready for tomorrow, I finally gave up. The following came out instead....

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It seems that no one really gets it.
The painful truth of my regret.
A life lived unsuccessfully.
The one I love does not love me.

I now am...

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The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief

Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines...

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I can feel it coming, you know.
I can feel the atmospheric pressure plummet
As the thunderstorm approaches.
Although the pressure is falling, 
it feels more like I'm...

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With your eyes full of hate 
As venom drips from your fangs, 
Your pores oozing contempt 
While anger courses through your veins 

A putrid cloud...

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Logical me
Well, I find that kind of funny
Because how could you see me
If anything, as 
Smart?
After Passionate me wrote so passionately
The letter I penned with...

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Shadows which walks, 
silent.

Are choiced not to talk.

 Stabbed in her heart, 
very violent.

 Grey is the silver lining 
of my  blood.

I am fevered...

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