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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.
...

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...

Zen Mode

...a crow flies by
our perfunctory glance
both stuporous and apathetic
refusing energy exchange 
an opportunity missed

07-December-2022...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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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