Short Platitudes Poems

Empty platitudes

  Change no attitudes...

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Swim, swim, do not sink -
Oceanic platitudes
To drown yourself in....

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captured audience
easy prey
for platitudes



posted on April 6, 2019...

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

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'Liberty' 'Freedom' ... Grandiose platitudes
                                        ~ Let them reach down to me...

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

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Platitudes are so convenient;
ready-made, impersonal, and stale.
They’re perfect when true words fail
and honesty is deemed impertinent....

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God forgives the penitant man

Governed by righteous attitudes

But saves his wrath for those who stand

Steeped in self-righteous platitudes...

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Not words
Not flowers
Nor platitudes
Not even Jesus

To love
is to be
in peace not with God
with yourself

Too many old fools
buried in seaside graves
never learn
eyes closed long before death...

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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 cocktails finally arrived...

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Finch trembles in a golden spray
Grading the ant
Oh door less oak squeals
Never platitudes
suit you like a T
Cradles inflected tease and ones
King of the row boat
The S so lowly
Infectious scars legally
mellow in my marshes
Sea is loud
As the sun arose...

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No calm platitudes, no testament ,
only open discussion 
with emotion, the ghost
of wounds so deep 
that colour bleeds implicit,
red for the dying weapon
of anger, yellow for the joy
that lolling plops as often 
as a midnight sun.

Let us gaze the world asunder....

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Poets often pontificate
In their particular poems
By punching words into 
Pre-determined form

Plying on rhyming
Placing their phrases 
In perfect presentation
With proper punctuation

Perhaps to receive 
A few platitudes
Possibly some praise
For its perfection...

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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

     Inaptitude and incertitude
       pave the path of ineptitude...

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Should I feel guilty
That I don’t care
About pleasing
Ingrate parasites
That I don’t care
To dole out
Platitudes and
Phoney compliments
That I don’t care 
To don fake smiles
And pretend
Everything’s alright



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on May 25, 2019...

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after midnight
on the edge,
dawn so far away:

in my dream
platitudes
cravings
concerns
             of the day
             hold sway:
clarity
of images
as vivid
             as day
yet
impasse
           hold sway
and...
         time...
appears
         to stand
still...

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JACK THE RIP-OFF

cold homicides
from clean quills
vices of knives
sharp sharks
stalk down
Piranha’s
with platitudes
of 
predictability
but in your brain
red is the pain
without gain
expressing
reality
in waves
no need to
explain


© Kim van Breda—22 October 2015...

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Static on the radio
Within lonesome nights
Inspirations
Monumentally minuscule

Playing over
Unmelodic hums
Of conditioning air platitudes

And a muted TV
In the silent running
A drowning to the local news

And all I hear is tapping
Into interpretations
Spilling out
From inner worlds of muse...

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Worn out platitudes
have we come this far ?,
returning all possessed souls
and in the midst  he slayed summer
in a  spectral wooden cupboard
with worn shoes,
and now the lesson is over
by touching all those far apart,
roaming by the foreshore
to see their stranger within
the catch net of life assured...

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Call me Ishmael 
Call me baby
Call me later
Call me sick & tired of platitudes
Call me the ubiquitous love of the universe

I am tired
I am nameless
I am vapor sifting through the trees
I am a billion mildly annoyed atoms
I am just like you 

Only I have a pen 
& the audacity to think this matters...

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Ancestral
These assurances
These well-intended 
Platitudes of wisdom borne of
The lightest light they ever knew.

I resist
I cringe
I worship
I respect

I do not judge

I cannot always appreciate

I respect
I ruminate
I live and breathe and yearn
I stretch and dance and sigh and sigh again

To make the haunt
Less daunting...

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Despite
intentions
in civil soar

debts loom,
seized plunder
for social war.

Distilled
treachery
laps at our shore

controlled
by blunt heads
swapped like décor

spinning
messages
to shape the lore:

lies and
platitudes
over the snore

since we
claim no land
here anymore,

grieving
while getting
shoved out the door....

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Small visions
Staggering insolence
muted souls pinned by vertebral thrusts 
lay in feathered wasteland

Spinning tongues imperial  platitudes 
Right of passage  misguided 
impenetrable to the bone
 
The shake-up 
Sharks teethe to flesh
an agent of defilable means
It scathes the soul 
of the inveterate, the young
and feasts upon its own....

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Children passing through the valley of death

Their chatter amplified by the facades of closing in betrayal

They fear no evil that teaches them to be silent 

And pay attention to imaginary platitudes scratched into the cave wall

What's for lunch? Windows windows windows, traffic and windows. 

The walk home is worse; gets heavier each passing day....

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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 full moon
grateful to be the new born
like a newly hatched larvae

An urbane man chased by 
bedraggled beagles
Forget the rest
cruelty at its own behest
treads to grey





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