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Otiose Poems - Poems about Otiose

Premium Member where no light penetrates
... where no light penetrates the musty chamber of an existence gazing, otiose, in contemplation of erogenous zones of paralysis and moans of the evaporation......

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Categories: otiose, dark, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Yearning Soul
...Regardless of my mother's death, One hope, obduracy, and words otiose breath The wheels of progress never stop turning The times shift, and my sad heart is yearning The world cont......

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Categories: otiose, appreciation, death,
Form: Couplet



A Vision On An Island
...Nested like treasures priceless, eagle parents watch over the brood On an island far away from the city, I beheld in a vision of azure blue A rural settlement in waste laying, arid with black bile ......

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Categories: otiose, africa,
Form: Free verse
Sol Invictus
...Hollow odes lament where waves crash depthless Oh! How ocean lacking light spills woe so! Lackluster grays wail unkempt longingness Lone stander bleeds the dreams of times ago O'er......

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Categories: otiose, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Gracias Gringos
...Folks must be happy in Guatemala With tax money frittered by Kamala Will she visit the border To 'stablish peace and order Or is she just Joe's otiose* wal......

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Categories: otiose, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member In the Hollowed Hush of Heaven
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCHXfkGOIw In the hollowed hush of heaven the whisper of a soul and in the lit up room of stars an angel's karmic face Two feathered wings aloft delive......

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Categories: otiose, death, life, light,
Form: Quatrain
Noblesse Oblige
...Painstaking plumes of surest gait To wield diamond steel over fate; With slow pair of wit-guarded lips, As otiose words sway great ships. Invincible flair and exacting knack To stand out from......

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Categories: otiose, allegory, anxiety, blessing, care,
Form: Didactic
Beneath Life
...Constrained by the sober exercise of judgment, And dignified by deliberation and privacy. I yanked my soul out of its secret chamber, And held it to the mirror of my eye. To see it like a star......

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Categories: otiose, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Selcouth Folly
...Wrapt in the otiose aumbry of pride A glede hythe a quiff will gust aside Her folly selcouth Binds her fast to her wanweird To speak ever sooth She is thrawn, my sister, my coëval Into fell Tr......

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Categories: otiose, age, anger, angst, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Do I Walk Or I Walk Me
...Do I Walk or I Walk Me? Suddenly I stopped inspired by a questioning thought; am I walking or I’m walking me? Am I a becoming or a being? The whole system called I or he or she is a cosmic ......

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Categories: otiose, mystery, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
For the Uninitiated Impostors
...I feel a nauseating revulsion to see scraps of prose Bundled together in a neatened pile in the name of poetry, And prizes being awarded for such otiose verbiage And praises being heaped for such ......

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Categories: otiose, anniversary, art,
Form: Verse
When Our Stories Shall Be Told
...When our stories shall be told and our chronicles opened:sad empty tales. Who will not spit and denounce such shameful tales?, what eye shall prode o......

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Categories: otiose, social
Form: Free verse
Irresponsible Enemy
...IRRESPONSIBLE ENEMY When our tears drop and stench fire around us, And fire's enemy becomes otiose and nugatory, Then shall tears backfire fire's enemy And after a very scorch suns......

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Categories: otiose, history
Form: ABC
Pit and Pendulum
...Forgive if I borrow, write and craft some sorrow Beg and steal, I give you this now and tomorrow Pen me under stars, pit me against the best I'll write you a sonnet, put your heart to the test Cause......

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Categories: otiose, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Angel of Death
...A million thoughts run through my head, A thousand words i wished i had said, A hundred lines i should have read, So many things left unfinished, Life taken never to be replenished, An unlike......

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Categories: otiose, allegory, confusion, death, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

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