Futility Poems - Poems about Futility

The king loves his creatures quite white Colored beings make him uptight From those he’ll secede Though that won’t succeed Since leaving this Earth’s not too bright...

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Victory seemed so close An accomplishment to boast We once dreamed against our woes Now we raise a final toast To all of our friends lost Fighting for what we already won However we paid the worst cost Losing the war that was already done We once left the kingdom By tossing our supply of tea Now we search for freedom By removing liberty We once headed...

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A man tries To do what is right But sometimes what is right Is not what is possible So a man does the best he can And the world hates him For not fulfilling their idea of what is right And so gives his best And so his life Only to be looked down upon...

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Pointing to nothing Is a story which may be Intended as erasure.. But nothing stands As a word..suggesting The futility of a word To be more than a word.. Yet it might be said The appearance Of a word is empty.. Hence.the dilemma... ...

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Wisdom dawned, but late ...

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It's gilded in bright colours Like a peacock butterfly; It sparkles in splendour Like a diamond in the sun; When it rests, it rests In confined dank darkness, In a bowel of nightmare With what remains of a king: a diet for forbidden creatures. Now to what gain or profit Are the swellings of ego Which defined and measured His reign of...

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I. The weather is cold. Do you need a sweater? I feel warm and fine – never better. Anything I can do for you? Can’t think of one thing or two. Want a hot cup of tea? No thanks, not for me. A nice back rub? Not now bub. Goodbye! Bye! II. Hi! Oh, hi! How are you? I have the flu. Something I can do? Can I have chicken stew? So...

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All cards are on the table Esau holds kings and queens His secular greatness is swift Many chiefs reign in Edom Jacob draws but two's and three's His family lags behind in Egypt Becoming slaves to Pharaoh Is God playing the losing hand? Small beginnings deceive Spirtual greatness comes later Demanding patience and faith Until His Royal Flush appears Jesus holds the Key of David He is worthy...

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Fruits Of War's Futility, Death And Destruction As glittering spit falls upon hot rocks rare gemstones melt into a frigid sea ailing ships lay about three fallen docks hummingbird chases a dozen honeybees irreparable desert begs sullen sky for some rain, as winged bats vacation from the fiends that pursue asking the why no trains dare stop at the new train station. In rocky...

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ebony carnivore’s velvet coat comes into view in a rush his prey is terrified, too frightened to run, knowing the futility of it she advances, with those determined amber eyes her babies will eat tonight...

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Boast not of money; It elevates to destroy Our human nature....

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Gene futility How can we look at a child and kill it, by using “it” we have distanced ourselves from the child they are no longer unique, but just an expendable extension of us. The intense love we have for a lost child is the grief of our own demise…it is the only proof we ever lived the loss of...

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Bumbled bumble bumble bee flew from bloom to bloom, busy-busy-a-buzzing-buzzy-busy Heard by flowers from here to there, a-mumbling to himself... saying… no-not-right, no-not-this-one, no-no-not-good. Until finally touching down on daisy's yellow landing pad for the gathering of his day ...

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Wilfred Owem 'FUTILITY'         \/,\/\\/       \_/,\|/,\|/_\/,_\     _\ ,/_\|/\|/_,\      /, \_\||\|/ ,_\,/       \_,\|/,|\|/_/            |          |           |          ...

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Separation Duality This and that.. These are Appearances Empty and full.. Not explainable Spontaneous Without connections Just This.. The futile quest is Is to find an Explanation to End the need For explanation Of appearances.. Lo the futility......

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