Platitudes Poems - Poems about Platitudes

Platitudes of Exactitude Platitudes of exactitude redefining my whole attitude Don’t want to seem rude but I can’t help but conclude That the truth will protrude From a form that just wants to be misconstrued Everything is in litigation Or it’s about representation of information While the train has already left the station I’m so in...

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A Walk on Shallow Waters David J Walker We are wrapped in paper and twine A perfect package on the outside Left on the stoop of an irony Gathered together we are with candles and cake We are a year older and celebrate With feelings that need not be explained We are one We are two We are three and more And...

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Sealed within an hourglass a shower of sand descending scraping away my supple skin as when one refinishes a hardwood floor scouring off the old varnish and stain Its grit scratching like the claws of a cat at my corneas already malformed before my birth so that I was never able even as a child to perceive the...

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Platitudes of gratitude reveal a shallow attitude A plentitude of finger food does not result in pulchritude Multitudes of semi-nudes enhance a life of turpitude ...

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Roses are red? Violets are blue?? The proverbs of poets aren’t totally true!...

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falls flat your platitudes, slinking platyhelminthes, flat worms in scant two dimensions, crumpled ...

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Tired platitudes for the pain to drown, The bridled tongue will keep the fire bound. A dose of bromide helps the words go down. Exalting paupers with a golden crown. Creating hero’s with exalted sound. Tired platitudes for the pain to drown. If our words of truth would be met with frown, Would we eulogize and then chest proud pound? “A dose of...

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