Short Lackluster Poems

Devastating trees,
Emotionless character:
Lackluster landscape....

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ominous approach
lackluster cumulus clouds
perplexed perfection........

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drab lackluster mood
brought on by somber spirits
~ blue melancholy



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on July 9, 2022...

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that ring you gave me
cheap like your lackluster love
broke around July

For Raul Moreno's Sentiments of the Heart Senryu Contest...

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Shadows in sight
“tween life and repose
the dark valence pulled tight
After the dramas done
Lackluster closed doors
Underneath light...

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There once was a man that was lackluster
Who's life was one giant cluster
Writes a suicide note
He slits his throat
Blank stares are all his family can muster...

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lackluster autumn 
a little red bird coming
 betrayed by the trees

tweeting and humming
this little red bird flying
from flowers to trees


9/19/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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The planes appear
to be still
without the moving clouds
lackluster the movie
without the screen

The clouds appear
to be moving
without the planes
fickle imagery
my biopic-pareidolia

5/6/2022...

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While destiny ditched me dearly in a dire domain
my lumbering life left me lovelorn in a languishing limbo, 
With all of my lackluster longing long gone
my haggard and heavy-laden heart hurts heartily.



~Alliteration contest by Barry Stebbings...

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Selene of evening
dazzles through autumn's fabric
as cloudscape hail her mystique

Guiding this pale roam
Moonlight waltzes on my trail
to brighten lackluster hope




Russell Sivey’s  Moonlight Delight Contest
Written 9/8/2017...

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drab lackluster mood
brought on by somber winter
~ blue melancholy


few treasured sunrays
awaken dormant daydreams
~ hope lurks on standby



AP: 2nd place 2022

Submitted on December 28, 2019 for contest KU DUET sponsored by SILENT ONE  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Something changing, shifting, fading...
Lackluster, the heat has gone cold.
Open portals closing, drifting, dreaming...
Trepidation, the eyes to the soul.
Someone wishing, reaching, feeling...
Imploring, a quick and tantalizing grasp.
Deadened passion, avidity, and lust....

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Release
the nectars
of thy 
words, for when 

the lackluster 
night comes, with dull eyes
I’ll be in a room, 

with beams
of your eager heart
is my light, 

sipping… 
them, ah sweet nectars,
that will move my world
to contentment!



---

for poet Ernilando Tugaff...

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It's the time
when the pen
doesn't move,
it just
stays stagnent.
You have
no inspiration,
no Muse
& you 
wonder if
this is it,
is the joy
ride over?
Will you
have to return
to a lackluster existence
where you
don't compose,
just go about
your functions
with no
life at all....

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Me and my muse had a fight,
She said I played it too safe.

Our nasty duel lasted all night.
I got so mad; I told her to leave.

She's been gone since October.
I have no tricks up my sleeve.

If you see a lackluster poem,
my muse is missing; blame her.








Alexis Y.
02/21/2021...

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I was holding onto lackluster material,
In hopes it would grow into gold
Deep down, I knew that this jewelry had no value 
Fear of pawning my assets, had me perplexed 
Eventually, I knew I would have to let go and let God 
No longer will I hold onto fools gold 
The shimmer will never reach the shine...

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Limpid lake blue eyes of lapis lazuli
Light like luminous lifeless lucent moons
Those lovely lively lustrous luscious lips
Taste like leathery little lingonberries

Yet, those loathsome lethal lavender pink lips
Lacked my long-lasting ladylike interest
While that ludicrous lawless lackluster brain
Literalized a lexicon of lazy lowlives...

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Many may have forgotten to notice the beauty of
Infinite existences except for, in poetry.
Rewind time and recall the emotions behind words.
An epic event, turned dummies to nerds or
Child at heart, allowed to become a child again,
Lackluster - less, shining from within.
Ever stop and say,'oh what a beautiful sight ',
So many miracles go without light....

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N-ever be lackluster, 
O-r you'll end up in sorrow; 
R-efrain from being blue, 
M-ake your heart
A-glow.

S-o never be lackluster, 
I-n your daily performance; 
L-et not your life lack for sheen, 
A-im for the shining radiance.
G-od's love February fifteenth
A-llows your day to be brighter; 
N-o reason to be indifferent, never be lackluster....

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A contextual gray
dulls the horizon’s lure,
blending the sharper hues,
softening the day’s rush
like warm cotton batting
awaiting a fine rump.

Drizzle manifests,
depressing, maudlin
lackluster, shrouding
the zip in the day,
Uncle Remus frowns.

Ole Br’er Rabbit
would not come out!
The blue birds hide
waiting for sun.

Ole Sol peeks.
Remus smiles.
Br’er hops in.

Blue birds
arrive

SING!...

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Lackluster is my middle name
You see, I’m rather ordinary
To renown I have no claim,
I’m to be expected, customary.
Some call me rather mediocre
In truth, I know I’m mundane
Certainly not a powerbroker,
I’ll be unquestionably plain,
Admitting I’m not very smart
But I do know my way around
And, friends, I’ve a good heart
My feet firmly on solid ground.

Written August 24, 2022...

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he was not my type
but by the time it was spring
i wore that man's ring

once he wore me down
i flowered in the garden
of his sweet attentiveness
but began to droop
in the absence of his care. . . . 
July’s drought was hard to bear

that ring he gave me -
cheap like his lackluster love -
broke in mid-august

By Andrea Dietrich

(combination senryu and choka)
For Russell Sivey's 
Relationship Breakups Poetry Contest...

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Wringing Withering Words
        Rhymes Remotely Rhetoric 
        Inherently Irritating Irony
        Tying Tattered Trajectories
        Enticing Ethereal Echoes 
        Relinquishing Ruined Rhymes
        Stubbornly sitting stalwartly

        Busily Busting Brain
        Limiting, Losing. Lackluster 
        Ostensibly Ordering Oracles
        Crumbling Cursive Curlicues
        Klutzy Kerfuffle Kaleidoscope...

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Spawning a precipice; you switched us off; no good reason
On second thought; no one should take credit or defame,
Unilateral is the only fair way to equally explain
Lackluster would be the sadness of this refrain;

Lamentable was what it left me with; or perhaps disdain,
Envisaging; happy with me; I was too eager to frame,
Sadly, it's overwhelmingly done, all the same
Subverted; a section of our time, was once called a season...

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You lack what I have.
You can't have it back,
    because your lack is my gain.
Lacks define your success.
The less you have the better.
But, a life with too many lacks is lackluster,
    a life spent lolling and loitering
    is lackadaisical bliss.
It is a half-hearted half-life, ruined by deficiencies.
So count your lacks, one by one
    and get rid of them.
Be fulfilled as you fill your lacks,
    like a dentist fills cavities....

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