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Futile Poems - Poems about Futile

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Premium Member Anomie
... When social upheaval brews chaos of nihilism, Forfeiting moral values, embracing skepticism; Instability ensues, clamoring in emptiness, Believing world is futile, life is meaningless, As broke......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, community, perspective,
Form: Free verse



I'm not strong enough
...I’m not strong enough I can’t carry this load today My ego is weighing me down It’s hard not to reach for a crutch The littlest of things weighs a ton I can’t lift them on my own Dope me up wit......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, addiction, depression, wine,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten Field of Forever
... Forgotten field of forever I knew you once . . . in daffodil days when I wandered in wisteria ways. Sprightly I skipped and rarely tripped. Hope really did spring eternal then in the spring o......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, childhood, war,
Form: Free verse
Get Up
...Up… Up!!! Objective unclear. mind seeps in flowing my dear. Separates in two My… the times out of tune. Dim, Dated, Drapes, form the blanket outside. What’s the point? We don’t need curfews. ......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Parting Echoes: Farewell, My Love
...I recall the day tears fell for you, Pleading for your stay, futile, true. Yet you departed, leaving me to surrender, Broke me, changed me, a fate I'd render. Thank you for not lingering in doubt,......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, break up, change, confidence,
Form: Lyric



A Patron's Vanity
...A Patron's Vanity [A protest poem]--- By Cherbo Geeplay How sunny the day becomes remains to be seen under these monsoon rains as a scarf hangs on the clouds, prodding to be noticed in ......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anomie
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So this is what they call anomie? A grayness, A blank, All things devoid of beauty? When the eternal arms, Have left me to my own devices, To toil in ......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, brother, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a change of state
...A Change of State Matter shifts through its states, threefold, Solid, liquid, gas, stories untold. Sometimes, I'm akin to such transitions, Solid, firm, with structured renditions. Yet futile ......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, feelings, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Belly of the Whale
...darkness, like Jonah held in the belly of the whale, the end of a world; closed-in time in dark spaces - gives one, a hell of a time to think in the belly of the whale grew a whole world, ......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, birth, child, dark, light,
Form: Free verse
Rap: Rules of the Street
... Internally unconventional, externally conform, In the game of life, it's the norm. Always watch yourself, like you're on a stage, Avoid regrets, don't let your actions rage. Bullies on the bl......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, america, anti bullying, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’] __________ The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river Cody flew just fast enough but still......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, adventure,
Form: Narrative
How to attach a shower curtain
...How to attach a shower curtain... I revisit rather than write from scratch a poem crafted May twenty third two thousand and twenty since the following words apropos and amply serve a duplicat......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, abuse, angel, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member String of Pearls
... Written: March 09, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's utterly aquiver and ambivalent With is a glimmer of modesty His fame stems from promoting peace......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, america, devotion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World Without Conflict
... Written: March 07, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As I gaze up at the sky, A vision appears in my mind: A ring of children, of all hues and races, Joking, holdin......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tomb
...John 9:4 (KJV) I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. He has the responsibility, Covered in dollar signs, abiding, Beneath the shadow......Read the rest...
Categories: futile, appreciation, career, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse

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