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Perfectionists Poems - Poems about Perfectionists

Premium MemberPersnickety Perfectionist Parents

...She did a whizbang job on her science project
Her teacher was impressed and did a genuflect
Parents pretended she had done it all her way
These perfectionists had done it after sending her out to ...
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Categories: perfectionists, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPerfect Match Perfect Fit

...When two halves of two hearts
Match as a whole
Lips were made to fit
Your eyes are a reflection of yourself
You think the same thoughts
At exactly the same time
Share the same interests
Love t...
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Categories: perfectionists, desire, engagement, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberdoof-doof

...“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu.
“It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came and ...
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Categories: perfectionists, humor, mom, paris, student,
Form: Free verse

Howling

...My writing gets wavy and I bet it would annoy some perfectionists out there.

I’m annoying but I don’t care right now.

They hate me, so I write about that too.

The tree outside is weird and f...
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Categories: perfectionists, voice, write,
Form: Free verse

No moss on the steady stone

...When you have lost a gem of priceless worth,
Do not mourn long, what you can't restore;
For in the sky a new star has its birth,
And in the earth more treasures wait to explore.

When you have s...
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Categories: perfectionists, confidence, destiny, fate, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet



'what Is Love'

...Love..........
When I think of love to define,
I can't find a substitute other than his name...
When I talk about love,
I can't control my tongue to
stop describing him more & more...
May be it...
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Categories: perfectionists, care, i love you,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTraces of Errors

...Traces of errors - demarcate my past mistakes - I could not erase.
While perfectionists - are gluttons for misery - hints they can't redeem,
like beaches, victims - left barren of memories - surgin...
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Categories: perfectionists, art,
Form: Haiku

Frailty

...Familiar victim dancing in the damp darkness
Seeker made, marked, miles of skin
Fashioned into the perfectionists puppet 
Tool, temptress, tornado
Fraudulent construction, masked self destruction...
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Categories: perfectionists, change, culture, depression, i
Form: Bio

Humanity

...that's a lot to take on such small shoulders, 
that burden to carry when you are not even that older....                                       
 The pressure of being best and being perfect, to kno...
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Categories: perfectionists, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Benzo

...Let’s be honest, I’m not that honest.
Be honest, 
Just this once.
Forget all the dilutions of grandeur,
The noise.
Eat it so hard in the teeth that your mouth has a voice.
Unclench your tongue ...
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Categories: perfectionists, 1st grade, anger, boy,
Form: Canzone

The Tendency To Sin

...The perfection clause doesn’t apply,
Yet we struggle to be flawless.

Society demands perfectionism, 
But the perfect human ceases to exist.

We are all sinners in an imperfect world,
In a uni...
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Categories: perfectionists, emotions, encouraging, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Doing It Right

...It’s hard being perfect.
Most folks aren’t you know.
People expect more from you.
You must go further than you want to go.

Perfectionists work much harder,
They can’t bear to waste time.
Some...
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Categories: perfectionists, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme

The Haar's Breeze

...Quyted (to depart from) your arms is an urge I have held on to
Qwerty language got me typing away with you for no clue (reason)
Quenched in your disqualifying love affair 
Tired of being your nigh...
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Categories: perfectionists, deep, drug,
Form: Verse

Heaven and Hell

...We get so caught up in right and wrong, discussing it is this that will benefit us and that that will harm us, we get so caught up and tired and so very thoughtful on things that don’t even matter as...
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Categories: perfectionists, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPerfect Love, Optimal Life

...Perfect love is perfection,
it is rare,
if such love exists at all
it must thrive beyond boundaries of my own experience
either receiving,
or giving.

Could this perfection of synergetic harmo...
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Categories: perfectionists, culture, love, nature, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse

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