Tumultuous Hearts
In the atmospherev of love, a paradox reigns
Where women chase the tumult, the heart's pains
A nice guy's gentle touch, a soothing breeze
Bores them, and they yearn for the stormy seas
Peace, a virtue men pursue, is a curse
To women, who crave the whirlwind's traverse
A man will flee the drama, the emotional strife
But women cling to the
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Categories:
feign, crush, cute love, desire,
Form: Free verse
Perfectly Okay
I wonder if it's just me
The epitome of inadequacy
So dependent and incapable
Of doing just the ordinary
What is to everyone mundane
Skills ever so easy to attain
Seem to me wholly hearculean
While to be perfectly okay, i feign
Every fibre within me aches
As each task demands multiple takes
Driving me to a desolate corner
Where I repeat the same mistakes
I
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Categories:
feign, anxiety, confusion, cry, deep,
Form: Rhyme
We Feign Surprise
Look around; the Earth is dying;
the whales and elephants crying.
The honeybee has dwindled down,
the Earth is dying; look around.
Plastic pollutes the world's oceans;
brewing up poisonous potions.
Despite organic substitutes,
the world's oceans; plastic pollutes.
Climate change, tomorrow's forecast,
spurred on by greed, present and past.
Today, renewable sounds strange;
tomorrow's forecast, climate change.
We've overfilled all the landfills
and cut down the trees
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Categories:
feign, angst, anxiety, change, earth,
Form: Quatrain
Let Feelings Feign Some Frisson
Let’s meet that why nor reason face—
Fair friendship that no mission face.
Let’s understand well each other,
Yon of greys that no confusion face.
Sans obstacles clouding reason,
Few their life’s destination face.
Fewer agree to one’s viewpoint
Sans post scripts, explanation face.
What use over-watering plants?
Fruits ripen, right
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Categories:
feign, friendship, love, relationship,
Form: Ghazal
Smile I Feign
Cork of my life, sheer pain in vain,
Rode with me upon a fast train;
Not far could I go, though I tried
For it blocked my path, hurt my pride;
Yet, tricking my brain, smile I feign.
November 29, 2019
Five word challenge poetry contest
Sponsor: Beth Evans
8 syllables per line (howmanysyllables.com)
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Categories:
feign, introspection, life,
Form: Quintilla
'don'T Feign a Smile'
When all I want, is to see you smile again
It will help you remember how beautiful
Your life once were
It can be that way again
Although it will take time
Don’t feign a smile to convince the world
“I got it right”
It doesn’t take a day to heal
Your time isn’t mine and
Neither is your healing mine
I
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Categories:
feign, encouraging, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Shame For Feign
a kiss on the cheek
is fair as fair can be. a
kiss on the mouth, and
it might become love or just
an endearment casualty.
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Categories:
feign, introspection, life, love, philosophy,
Form: Tanka