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Open Ended Poems - Poems about Open Ended

The longing of an eternal: Inspired from The Sandman by Neil Gaimon

...As the dream king is sat at his throne...

What am I to do whilst I am away? What then would befall my kingdom? There is still so much to do but yet, I am administered so little time. I am here now...
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Categories: open ended, allegory, death, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Unexpected

...Did not wish to love another,
To turn on this brother,
Platonic now, or lover,
Thinking of him under cover,
Should I hurl fat bloomers,
Passing by, his zoomers,
Each has a fantasy, 
Would joyb...
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Categories: open ended, appreciation, fantasy, fun, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberETHEREAL ABSTRACTIONS

...an
enigmatic
    esoteric
experimental
  process
with
 innate
distilled
satisfaction

intricate
 tangents
  of chaotic
immediacy
ennounced

an
essence
of
abstract
     phenomena
...
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Categories: open ended, literature,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberTABULA RASA

...
   monotonous
pulsating
   perceptions
of
formal
    coherence
in
open-ended
    fantastical
            fragments
in
the hinterlands
of
ambivalence

gaps
   hiatus
     lacunae
e...
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Categories: open ended, word play,
Form: Verse

To Me, Today

...what is a hope
if not the most desperately fervent
wish of a man— a dream so deeply
staining the edges of reality

a hope lies dormant in my belly
sleeping like a dragon curled
on the hoard of...
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Categories: open ended, allegory, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMy oblivious eye

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Here on the cusp of all things, is where I succumb 
Ceding my stuff blindly, toward oblivion and none 
Unwilling to persevere, without a modicum of fun 
Listing in perpetual stasis, til the spas...
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Categories: open ended, deep, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe People with Wings

...
 The People with Wings
 It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca.  It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with Wings,’ and, was the only evidence of...
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Categories: open ended, fate, future, myth,
Form: Haibun

Premium Memberwhispering birds through wind and light rain

...My open-ended lines can convey more than one idea. Verse 3, middle line, ends in “I am.” I am both okay (today) & puddles on pavement. 

whispering birds through wind and light rain
no dram...
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Categories: open ended, morning, rain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAre We Are

...Beside the breathless petting,
love is a wonder timeless -- 
in loin with club
I can see the pounding extended
fierce yet open ended
room for tenderness and caring
beyond the physical sharing
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Categories: open ended, desire, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Second-hand Knowledge

...The way she was standing 
So open ended 

The power she holds in just a glance 
I checked the notary with dexterity 
and the line in my head 
Saying “I’m not good enough for her”

But I didn’...
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Categories: open ended, angst, crush, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChemo

...Wake up and rush for the toilet and say my prayers

 Stomach races trying to catch up to the bowels emptying anxious

Chemo the man said it takes a bit to get used to and I’ll ring you

Take a ...
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Categories: open ended, bible, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWeekend Recitation

...a discourse     
  ornamted speech
    eloquent oratory aloud
seminal ideas
in pillars of poetics

a dialogue     delivered
     feelings aroused
         from slumber
by symmetries of seque...
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Categories: open ended, word play,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberZillions

...
zillions-
amounts beyond
our imagination
like the depth of infinity-
worthless

zillions-
open-ended
eluding summation
endless quantities revealing
nothing
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Categories: open ended, allusion, imagery, symbolism, word
Form: Cinquain

Unravelling the Quilt

...That driving force
that is ink for the well,
this compulsion to compel,
to tell a thing
until it rings in the brain.

Again and again
we sew a quilted cloth,
construe it thread by thread
unt...
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Categories: open ended, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRhyme To Myself

...This poem is; an open-ended rhyme to myself;
In an emergency; break the glass, to save thine self
I've seen more than anyone should have to; but my eyes have more to give
They can't take; what you...
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Categories: open ended, confidence, growth, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse

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