Layman Poems

Six Shots of Southern Comfort

...Bonne nuit, numbers and digits
Did you miss hearing the drunk specter sing?
Back to waffle again about their trauma and joy
Derek isn't even their real name

Where were you when the millennium t...
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Categories: layman, childhood, introspection, memory, niece,
Form: Free verse

Gnosis

...I swim in the vast ocean of mind and 
plumb its depths for treasure 
The pleasure is all mine as it exercises 
my will to be great 
Many covet life's precious jewels but aren't 
willing to give ...
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Categories: layman, introspection, motivation, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme


The Glory Tree pt2

...The steep was ever silent on that night.
     The tree wept like it always did at night.
          All seemed normal to a layman,
               Never had trouble ever came in  

But still the d...
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Categories: layman, beauty,
Form: Other

The Edge of Oblivion

...I can tell you that the edge of oblivion is a 
comforting place for the wise
Oblivious to the wondering eyes of the layman
that watch, things are seen just as they are
All it takes is a few steps...
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Categories: layman, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

CLOUTS OF RELATIONS

...CLOUTS OF RELATIONS:
Wooo...lets go... 
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... .
Aha... Ahaaaahaa...yeah
VERSE 1:
Who expected what today's brought,
That love would be sold?
Mine was given freely an...
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Categories: layman, life,
Form: Lyric


The Walk-In

...Many are buried in grave thoughts that linger
like ghosts housing animosity 
A gracious host worries not for it knows hospitality
is the key to open doors
These doors lead to experiences in diffe...
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Categories: layman, symbolism, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

The Finis Sing Touches Touche

...The finis sing touches touché

Knead dull brows knitted; 
belief system I cogitate 
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid 
acquiesces to deck the halls 
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs 
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Categories: layman, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Naira Redesigned, Chaos To Nigerians

...Affliction fiercely force foreigners out of the nation ..
Citizen set sight to the sovereign one above..
The ones on earth becomes earthworms eating our happiness and paying it with extreme hardshi...
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Categories: layman, political,
Form: Free verse

A Wise Woman

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 A Wise Woman

They say a wide woman should build her house, but what about the piggish man with mannish mannerisms? He’s filled with doggie treats and dogma. Ladies, let...
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Categories: layman, abuse, atheist, betrayal, depression,
Form: I do not know?

Intricate Words Complicate Poetry I State

...I thought only in free verse many write confusing poems,
But, by rhyming also many confuse with verbosity,
That description may be liked by all the great poets,
But, layman may gain nothing as he ...
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Categories: layman, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Greed Will Make Peace Nil

...Money has become the only matter
And almost all are crazy after that
By hook or crook all earn money
Wisdom and peace are uncared

Maximum profits all love to mint
Noble morals are viewed as si...
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Categories: layman, conflict, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Blank verse

An Outcry

...The countryside was their homeland, 
Buried in the rich soils were their sons’ navel strings, 
Nothing of their history was bland,
Not even the stain on their names or grit on their rings.

They...
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Categories: layman, hope, slavery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHow I Feel About the Vaccine

...In contemporary society, doctors & scientists for example, are considered to be experts in that they hold a body of dominant knowledge that is on the whole, inaccessible to the layman.


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Categories: layman, analogy,
Form: Narrative

You, the Heaven-Sent

...Ruining the moral murals
With its rhymes of times 
Fulminous falls fell
Soaking my soul
With arts of heart-wall

The passing wayfarer
The life-laden layman
Seeing the callow curves
In a supp...
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Categories: layman, inspiration,
Form: Lyric

Substandard

..."One who meditates of death, has disguised his life as one.
One who meditated of death, in order to disguise, knows life."

- "Should I meditate of life then?"

You probably will be 'living ...
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Categories: layman, dark, deep, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Verse

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