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Platitudes Poems - Poems about Platitudes

Platitudes Poems - Examples of all types of poems about platitudes to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for platitudes.
The Heartache of Farewell
...The heartache of farewell Comes in layers and degrees of torment and suffering Some good and Bad, some may say it is all good in the end But regardless of platitudes and positive thinking after re......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Drifter
...Sifting through the sands of time Drifting through the lands of rhyme A humble poet bound for glory They rumble thus around for story When all prose of past recalled Then all those at ......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great American Make-Believe
...Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity. I grew up among the repetitious homes, isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity, the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome. Repug......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hypocrite
... The Hypocrite The Doubter hides behind religious guise, Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies. His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile, E......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, anti bullying, bullying, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Reflections
... 1. With things we cannot change, it is better to give the appearance of trying; for even the smallest effort instills hope. 2. Having children has never seemed a great accomplishme......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, life,
Form: Free verse



Weather Girl
...Satellite dishes are blown apart in the wind. She says it's going to be a bad weather day, but her smile is bright and perky. The wind keeps churning through sparrows, and shingles. On a ......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Penitant Man
...God forgives the penitant man Governed by righteous attitudes But saves his wrath for those who stand Steeped in self-righteous platitudes......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Blink No 3
...Jensen plays to the skinless drum Ten chocolate soldiers melt down by the campside Platitudes of the night crimson altar affairs preside I have forgotten your face wish i was a pram under fu......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Maladapted, Part II
...You hear people thinking that they can break reality with thought, that thinking it must make it so, I think we all have seen their lot. The kids that think that they are cats, and demand litter......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, confusion, gender, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Renegade Sunday School Teacher
...Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother of six; four by birth and two by informal adoption. She sang in a small querulous voice yet spoke boldly filled with loving EarthMother indigenous wisdo......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, christian, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Within the White Noise
...Have you ever pondered shadows are made of softness, they are not hard surfaced like those of us existing outside of the white noise unable to grasp - the invisible, that speak meani......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, mirror, muse,
Form: Free verse
First Time
...The first time I saw you - there - Sophisticated, warm-blooded, And for a kiss, you blubbered - Barbary lipped, presenting the bill. If I'd snuggle up, you'd cover me in fur. Coo-ee! A real l......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, abuse, adventure, animal, corruption,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Vacuum or Vampire? Either way, you Still Suck
...A Hallmark card would have sounded sweeter than that My shiny badge of defusion and falsely sworn merit I’m the worst this town’s ever seen! But I want justice for this I keep retriggering your......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, character, confusion, emotions, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How it feels to be loved
...it seemed everyone was locked in a dance of platitudes and if I spoke it was like I interrupted the programme, to fit in was to also switch off falling, falling, falling. Stop. I'm cushioned, env......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stags
...intense . . . to begin with, belayed by hours hewn soliloquy through obverse platitudes benign, betrayal among friends, in grounds of open mouths, a kraken of tongues regale upon which bar the co......Read the rest...
Categories: platitudes, celebration, drink, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse

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