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Perfunctory Poems - Poems about Perfunctory

Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry
...Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hus......

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Categories: perfunctory, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burning Love Letters
...declarations of adoration flood the net inviting envy perfunctory comments of support soon forgotten as people get on with their mundane lives yet again illustrating t......

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Categories: perfunctory, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Vibrant emptiness
...releasing completely the moments gone by thus free from fetters of memory imagery recalled only in a manner perfunctory there is no cause for heart to sigh nonchalant is movement of tim......

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Categories: perfunctory, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member In Simple Words
...We care not for a this or that ism For these but address mind Ignite oh God, our feeble form prism Making heart pure and kind That we be love entwined God’s breath brings to life, organic dust......

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Categories: perfunctory, spiritual,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
...A period here. a question mark there? A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care. Then he closes his eyes so he never sees, And does it again with apostro......

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Categories: perfunctory, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse



We Will Not Keep Quiet
...We will never keep quiet, Even in the middle of the jungle, Left alone with the unknown, We will make the unknown known Swim in the pool of realism, And sing the song of spasm For we will not k......

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Categories: perfunctory, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perfunctory
...It's time that you were disabused, of notions that I am bemused, but if you feel I am confused, it will not leave my ego bruised. I hope that I can be excused; it seems my muse simply refused. ......

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Categories: perfunctory, missing, muse,
Form: Monorhyme
Screen Romance
...Some desires, some wishes Some hits, some misses Some longings For those disappearing zings Some peekaboo Some more than the perfunctory I love you Some fantasy nibbles, Some mu......

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Categories: perfunctory, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zen Mode
...a crow flies by our perfunctory glance both stuporous and apathetic refusing energy exchange an opportunity missed 07-December-2022......

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Categories: perfunctory, muse, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Everything Fades
...Salubrious salutations, new age gradually old made voyage, Living was perfunctory and now it’s stale, Can the memory sway? You yelled but no one heard, Maybe tide was chatty with time and n......

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Categories: perfunctory, absence, age, blessing, courage,
Form: Lyric
The In-Between
... "The In-Between" I ripped the pages of that tired old story from the heart, a body of work buried the misdiagnosed slanders then wiped their mouths with the back of ......

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Categories: perfunctory, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Astrofamily
...Marriage of 2 Sons X 3 A daughter was never to be We based their lines on signs Astrology hoping for that perfect blend. Little did we know their independence would grow Overcoming us paren......

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Categories: perfunctory, child, creation, father, joy,
Form: Free verse
Hall Pass
...Had a room been open in that passageway as a foreign night-ship, you’d have sailed by Love would’ve been what? I couldn’t say Life: an inveterate humid ply____________ Perhaps has passe......

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Categories: perfunctory, love,
Form: Sonnet
Never Satisfied
...Nervous flutters, against reaction Emoting apathy, of mass inaction Views: judges deemed pernicious Evasion of truth, is more precious Reeking, of dumbed-silent perfidy… Self-satisfied, co......

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Categories: perfunctory, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fragile Promises
... Promises are not like diamonds or steel. Many times, they cannot be perceived to be real. They appear to be soft, and without mass. Often, they can shatter like thin glass. Those were l......

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Categories: perfunctory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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