Notification Poems

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

...I prayed for my relationship with Finbar, 
And though he gave me everything I wanted,
 he also delivered the most hurt I have ever received, 
your brain in constant turmoil on whether to let go or...
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Categories: notification, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat am I?

...What am I?

I don’t know.
Maybe a scream searching for its name in the dark,
maybe a child with scraped knees
on the burning road,
a man with his throat clenched
by the noose of stars,
when t...
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Categories: notification, baby, deep, inspirational,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberMy answer is affirm No to his request

...Just name the day, and I will be there.  
This morning, the notification bells woke me up.  
With sleep still in my eyes, I reached for my phone.  
The tone lingered from that text in my ear:  
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Categories: notification, adventure, anxiety, devotion, drug,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Returning Wish

...I threw a penny down a wishing well
But I didn’t make a wish
I was returning a wish
I had been holding onto this penny for awhile
Thinking that my wish would return back to me
But that’s not how...
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Categories: notification, break up, heartbreak, lost
Form: Free verse

Disconnected

...In a world woven with wires,
I stand still,
a stranger in the hum of voices,
the glow of screens reflecting
a pale loneliness against my skin.

Friendships flicker like dying flames,
texts sen...
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Categories: notification, confusion, courage, imagery, poems,
Form: Free verse


Fury For The Masses VI

...
Fury for the masses
neon pulses bleed into the damp air
screens flicker
frantic fireflies
spitting chaos 
into living rooms, void!
 
Each pixel is a distant mind bomb
echoes of sirens shatt...
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Categories: notification, america, anger, art, city,
Form: Free verse

Disconnected

...Disconnected
In a world woven with wires,
I stand still,
a stranger in the hum of voices,
the glow of screens reflecting
a pale loneliness against my skin.

Friendships flicker like dying flam...
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Categories: notification, inspirational, poetry, poets, spoken
Form: Free verse

Waiting for the Blue Car

...Smoke rises from the hill
another B-47 gone
Who was it?

Notification comes in a blue car
two officers
wives wait

It turns in street,
a driveway.
Oh no,
not her!
Kill a family

"They a...
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Categories: notification, anxiety, courage, death of
Form: Free verse

Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025

...Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025...

but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine days later (due the math and inform me of any ...
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Categories: notification, absence, angel, anger, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Wish

...Wish

I made a wish for 
Elmwood Airport hangers to 
store official notification of 
facts, and, to 
store liquor with a 
raw egg base.
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Categories: notification, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoetic Podcast Episode 35 Bop

...Ruined by puddles of porch rain 
before you had a chance to bring it,
much less break it in; 
The robotic reply of ‘Order canceled.
Your item is out of stock. Refunded.’
throws you into a total ...
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Categories: notification, computer, emotions, humanity, introspection,
Form: Other

Last Night

...Last night i accidentally confessed to my friend

I didn’t even know i did it until he started to apologize and tell me i deserved better
“I wish i could give you what you deserve.” Is what he sai...
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Categories: notification, 10th grade, angst, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse

Chiming in

...Mental manipulation,

Spreading the nation,

Broadcast on every station,

Here is a free phone,

Just for the occasion.

It's an invasion,

It's their way in,

Getting under your skin.
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Categories: notification, abuse, addiction, america, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Technologies Slave

...In modern times, it's plain to see.
We are a slave to our own technology.

It's more than a habit, it's quite an affliction.
To see such mobile phone addiction.
We scroll and swipe, but at what ...
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Categories: notification, addiction, city, people, slavery,
Form: Rhyme

Talent Stifled

...Middle aged man in Docs, 
vintage leather jacket and
grey haired pubes around his cock.
Ill fitting tour shirts rekindling a hazy past.
Barrowlands, The Bunnymen. Hammersmith Odeon,The Clash.
U2...
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Categories: notification, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry

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