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Malingering Poems - Poems about Malingering

Premium Member What God is This
...What God(?) is this That walks warmly alongside death A malingering menace Feasting on the pain of life’s limitations A sadist, reveling in life’s clinging pain Supping on the angst of agony’s d......

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Categories: malingering, angst, death, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the raw madness that makes me who I am
...It amuses me when people ask “How are you?” Fortunately for us both They never ask “Who are you?” For that answer relies upon a deep dive Into the hollows of a heart The scorched remains of ......

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Categories: malingering, age, growing up, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It's Open Season
...Mysterious displacement of matters where Spring forgets like fumbling fingers in blossoms arresting visions lingering colossal ~jewels rule pastimes Then Summer......

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Categories: malingering, autumn, lost, spring, summer,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Chocolate Girl
... Her luxurious penthouse is like a cocoon with plenty of pretty distractions, so she keeps her door firmly closed, because she prefers fantasy over the handicap of reality. Afraid of light, ......

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Categories: malingering, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Psychologically still thirteen
...Psychologically still thirteen Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days familiarization with me would entail bringing the avid listener into my private mancave hideaways less a physical place th......

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Categories: malingering, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member War of Malingering Swarms
...Male bees are useless layabouts Gather no nectar or pollen Can't feed themselves Have no stingers Yet World War III Will be fought with a swarm Of a billion, billion drones Some made of cardbo......

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Categories: malingering, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dolce Far Niente
...The only ounce of energy I'll be expending today is having picked up a pen to scrawl these lines... "I have declared this to be Dolce Far Niente Day." Enjoying the sweet life, doing no......

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Categories: malingering, day, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea
...The wondrous sea captivates my soul as I sit beneath the malingering palms I can close my eyes and dine on imaginations from its offered sounds I can listen quietly to the soft throb of the wa......

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Categories: malingering, beauty, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not Patriots--Amoeba Types
...The insurrectionists of January 6 are NOT patriots! They are criminals of the lowest amoeba-types Most patriots were at work improving the G.N.P. Not carousing and malingering to air their......

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Categories: malingering, anger, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
Pleasures Pleading
...What man is this, Who may not kiss And not want to spit Out the taste of carrion, Not want to wrench The steaming stench Of carnality In billowing bellows From his lungs Not want to clean......

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Categories: malingering, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
To C West
...Standing redundant in an echoing wind, renewing your vanity with deference to all At home on the fringes where truth is an orphan, you line up your enemies canons shot at the wall A gener......

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Categories: malingering, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Greg and the Hunkie Hawk
...Amidst Mystic’s art and craft show last May I was wandering. By a stall with wildlife photos malingering, Where my new beau Greg caught me beaming. A gorgeous red tailed hawk photo I was unashame......

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Categories: malingering, humorous, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Relinquishing Emotional Fixations
...Toward Material Trappings Gold and silver upholds true value capitalist money tree Thrown down upon gaunt lit alter of Midas, treasured as current sea Countless denominations......

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Categories: malingering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member More Audacious Hope
...Senator Obama's Audacity of Hope ends with listing memories, visual images, that rekindle his love for this imperfectly united Place For his Country, this humane Habitat for mutual care-givin......

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Categories: malingering, beauty, destiny, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member This Is Unfinished Feminist Us
...So I was feeling badly, sad, because I share our mutually complicit status for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing chronic stress disordering time. I too have been there, lost there, to a m......

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Categories: malingering, anger, culture, education, fear,
Form: Political Verse

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