Fail Poems

Premium MemberBorn to Fail



Begotten to Fail 

The strutting hustlers 
rouse their slumberous day 
amidst their maddened worlds  
In the midst 
of the wary ghetto
A dream steps out 
blinking, yawning with a resolve 
even as their sky seems blurry 
Repelling men and monsters 
Relishing the forecasted rain
Marching through 
mud and splatters 
riding with the lightning
dancing to the pounding
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Categories: fail, courage, inspiration, passion,
Form: Narrative

Red

pulse()— //triggers beneath skin: jagged
>> syntax.error: panic overflowed: line 21
{ mind == burn; vision == glitched color; }
>>>> crash report, rebooting…
#cc0000 //devours what logic left behind
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Categories: fail, kiss, loneliness, lost, love,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHow do you fight when the battle is within you, and every attempt seems doomed to fail

How do you fight when the battle is within you, and every attempt seems doomed to fail,
When you thought you were strong, but now you see you're caught in the web of doubt,
A stranger in your own skin, searching for a self that once seemed so certain,
I try to rise, but I fall again, chasing
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Categories: fail, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

To my children and grandchildren People will fail you

Don't think it strange when someone attacks!
A person you hold dear ,stabs you in the back!
Learn from God's word that all people are flawed.
To God nothing about our behavior is odd!

Many times I hung around people, just to appear cool.
Then regretted it the next day, how I looked like a fool!
Attempted to try things and
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Categories: fail, 12th grade, addiction, drink,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen Words Fail Me


I was born with the meaning of home running through my veins. ~ Lauren Eden

laughing, songs of surreal longings stirring
wide-eyed epiphanies glow
in silence, free like make believe, pretending
while sorrows meld with light’s spiritual leaves
knowing God’s love meant
goosebumps on naked moments
pouring out serenity into lives who believe
where colors of faith
meet amazing in His grace
and the stories
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Categories: fail, appreciation, christian, courage, faith,
Form: Suzette Prime


Premium MemberSounds Fail

The sky is falling quietly down
The evening starts to glow
You let her out in the garden
Commanding off you go
The dusk is growing deeper
And through the shift of time
I hear you calling “Pippa!”
And she comes back, and I
Hear your “good girl” to her
And Pippa wags her tail
She licks your face, the image blurs
You smile, the sounds
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Categories: fail, memory,
Form: Rhyme

A hard lesson

2015.03.09@13:13:13
As the V-Line Coach approached the Apollo Bay,
Along the sand line, what did I find?
The splashing waves rushed in to reach the beach.
The scent of the trees and plants,  
Triggered some ideas in my brain.
I planned to throw your book into the sea,
Let the salty water washed all your printed words.
Hopefully, it also cleaned
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Categories: fail, beach, books, feelings, how
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHe is not someone you bump into on the road and fail to notice

He is not someone you bump into on the road and fail to notice,
he is the one whose presence you feel in the empty corridors he traversed,
he doesn't wear the falsehood of a feigned smile on his lips,
but sews his bleeding truths onto the contours of his soul.
He won't accuse you of gazing too long
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Categories: fail, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

What The Mind Fail The Heart Suffer

What's true with human heart
They aren't as real as their mouths say
For in them the world is full of practicality
The emotion of things can't solve any problem
Claims they don't reach goal by the beating of the heart
They have a thousand reasons to stay braggart
It seems reasonable but the heart has all the content
That the reasoning
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Categories: fail, heart, prejudice, science, success,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNew year declaration

We were on our own
Minding our business 

Weighed down by crushing unemployment 
Thoroughly disillusioned by the art of promise and fail

We were disoriented by the perennial lie 
Of being leaders of tomorrow 

While we watched the promised future 
Dissipate before our very eyes

Stolen by evil forces that have held the country 
Down since after the
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Categories: fail, anger, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

When Leaders Fail Transparency

I wonder where
Taxed money goes
No project gain.

Raise budget year
No hope where sent
People's face fret.

Paint dismal day
Hard to abroad
But force to be.

Where leaders went
Sheet Bi-cam failed
Blank signs was filled.
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Categories: fail, leadership, perspective, political, prejudice,
Form: Than-Bauk

Let them yell

Face all your setbacks and face them well,
Just mind not what they say let them yell,
Leave them to their shouts,
Leave them with their doubts,
For all you care they can go to hell.
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Categories: fail, anti bullying, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberWords Fail

Words fail to match the beauty of the park
The magic stillness of the early autumn day
Leaves fall across your smile, completing your remark
Leaving me speechless in this colorful decay 
The trees look tall in their patchy outfit 
Lone robin sings somewhere in the height
So shall we go, before the dusk commits
Its usual crime, obscuring the
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Categories: fail, autumn, day, magic,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWords Fail

Words fail to match the beauty of the park
The magic stillness of the early autumn day
Leaves fall across your smile, completing your remark
Leaving me speechless in this colourful decay 
The trees look tall in their patchy outfit 
Lone robin sings somewhere in the height
So shall we go, before the dusk commits
Its usual crime, obscuring the
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Categories: fail, autumn, day, magic,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYOU CANNOT FAIL


What would you do,
What heights would you sail,
If you really knew
You could not fail?

Would you talk to yourself
In a brand new, positive way?
Would you only listen to the
Encouraging things people say?

Would you take bigger chances 
And blaze new trail?
Would you reach for the stars,
If you could not fail?

Would you create a new life
Filled with happiness,
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Categories: fail, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

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