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Missing The Point Poems - Poems about Missing The Point

Remembering Fyodor
...“If you spend half your time trying to change human nature You’ll spend the other half being disappointed” If you spend half your time waiting for someone to love You’ll spend the other half......

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Categories: missing the point, life,
Form: Rhyme
Obfuscation
...OBFUSCATION Many when unsure, may hide their opinion Buried within words and deflective phrases But if lacking sense then it’s for the crazies Yet outright lying holds little dominion In terms......

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Categories: missing the point, confusion, integrity,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Dr Johnson Dictionary I Presume
...Dr Johnson I presume May I enquire why Sir This 2nd edition of your dictionary Has so very few words and only 1 page in it Such as and if I may , can I quote you Contempt Corruption......

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Categories: missing the point, slam,
Form: Free verse
Hell Is a Black Friday
...A Friday from hell I was writing about consumerism. What is the point when people get up at five in the morning? buying tumble driers that use plenty of electricity in a country where the sun s......

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Categories: missing the point, abuse, allusion, anger, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Joys of Selfless Giving
...Life of lifelong dance— Of rainbow shades and fragrance, And with bees romance, Flowers, I envy How ye manage this, tell me, Asked a man in trance, Yours too, Butterfly, And O Honey-bearin......

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Categories: missing the point, giving, joy, nature,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Monoku Monday - Apr 2021
..."Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning" Posted 5 Apr 2021 take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals they won't go to yours some think our cemetery is nice......

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Categories: missing the point, grave, humor,
Form: Monoku
Because You Are Dense
...A story of suffering, two people you know one of them close, the other not so a painful experience mutual for both you made about you and off your head blows missing the point and taking offen......

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Categories: missing the point, people,
Form: Rhyme
Coming Home Poems
...Coming home' poems - all missing the point. You can't come home; you are home.......

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Categories: missing the point, age, love, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Missing the Point
...Why stop at statues Let’s level the pyramids Damn pharaohs had slaves By David Kavanagh......

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Categories: missing the point, allegory, allusion, america, hate,
Form: Haiku
Don'T Forget
...Don’t forget …… Why you’re running so fast? Look they’re moving faster. Ok, but what’s the purpose? I can’t talk now, need to speed up to cover the gaps. What about your aim, your r......

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Categories: missing the point, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pure Like a Dove
...When stars are perfectly aligned A fervent eye will meet another Never needing an introduction Feeling like it just belongs there Making a home without permission Like a bird-nest in summer gard......

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Categories: missing the point, love,
Form: Free verse
Christmas, Made of Awesome
...Every year someone is always expressing that Christmas is imperialist, and oppressing people not of the Christian faith, That it’s unfairly taken Soltice’s place, that the historical Jesus was no......

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Categories: missing the point, celebration, christmas, family, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Mere Entertainment
...They laugh and roll their eyes when I stand up for heroic western types, for pulp-adventure, and old-school action, they say this shouldn’t bring satisfaction. With a haughty air they claim it’s ......

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Categories: missing the point, art, creation, how i
Form: Rhyme
Dear Fatima
...Dear Fatima, Here are a few words I am afraid to say. Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them…and they flew. - Guillaume Appol......

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Categories: missing the point, dedication, health,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Missing the Point
...inspired by Lewis contest Sounds casual and shallow Distracting the peripheral; Reserved,distant and unreciprocal. We say hello but do not talk Never revealing what we feel, Recserved,re......

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Categories: missing the point, emotions, life,
Form: Kyrielle

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