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Obtuseness Poems - Poems about Obtuseness


Blocks of Nigh
...through streets of déclassé squalor, i wander, courtesan of chaos my feet bare, ballerina on the dirty floor o the city's kin of decay, ragtag orchestra plays its dirge; an eerie swan song. ......

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Categories: obtuseness, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death or Triumph First Draft
... Her body was that of a wizened crone, her enfeebled mind was that of a child. Playfully, she skipped and jumped rope, and shone, but only in her confused dreams of wild. Her drear some days sof......

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Categories: obtuseness, age, confusion, death, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Some Kind of Metaphor
...We were not doing well, the chipmunk was excavating our front step, nibbling away at our foundations. The chipmuck was a metaphor. The garden peach tree developed a blight, the fruit rotted on......

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Categories: obtuseness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the collective hubris of our indifference to ants
... We walk the earth as lords of all only judeo-christian types of course We crush the weak and heed no call history is written by the winners We think ourselves the smartest rac......

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Categories: obtuseness, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse
The Dance Poetic Repeated
...THE DANCE POETIC (just a play with words, acrostic variation) T tantalizing, titillating theater, transpires H head-on, hesitating hovering hoopla, E edging effortless......

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Categories: obtuseness, dance, poetry, word play,
Form: Acrostic



I See
...I see deep into your being, You will never notice that I was ever there, My understanding passes foggily over your eyes as you remain ignorant and blissful of what you believe to be the triumph......

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Categories: obtuseness, anger, emotions, feelings, hate,
Form: Free verse
Inks Destruction of a Promise
...As I sit at the stroke of 3 In this lucubrator And watch the flame of the candle flicker, I sort through scraps of your heart On old crumpled paper, And listen to the hebetude Of your written words ......

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Categories: obtuseness, education,
Form: Free verse
Metaphors
...poets write with metaphors to protect their feelings letting others read into it--pulling their own meaning sometimes it hits close, no matter how vague we pen obtuseness only goes so far when you......

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Categories: obtuseness, introspectionwrite, metaphor, write,
Form: Couplet

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