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Simple Minded Poems - Poems about Simple Minded

Take two to tango

...2025.04.28
It takes two to tango.
It is very true, if you believe otherwise,
You are naive and a simple minded soul.
It applied to all the keeping promises too.
I made so many on my own will,
D...
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Categories: simple minded, art, dance, desire, hope,
Form: Free verse

The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God

...Gods of Man

In the days of yore, in distant times
Life was simple
Man was simple-minded
and his gods were simple, as well.

Life began with the light of day
and ended with the fall of night....
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Categories: simple minded, god,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberOf Mice and Men REVIISED

...I thought to write about my High School Social Studies 
book report. An uncomplicated short story about the 
lives of two characters who like to take life the short and 
easy way. I de...
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Categories: simple minded, allegory, analogy, imagery, sad,
Form: Narrative

Untitled

...Once we moved in time 
Our bodies mimicked like shadows 
Two beats connected by heart

Like strings on our ankles 
We chose each step carefully 
Until sudden fall

Shards of glass in the crac...
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Categories: simple minded, betrayal, break up, cry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Simple Kind of Man

...He was simple minded and hearted

From his grandmother's house departed

As he was homeward bound

He got so turned around

Thus ended up back where he started...
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Categories: simple minded, irony,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberWhy What Reason Have I

...Often times I wonder if I may have missed 
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I ...
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Categories: simple minded, allusion, travel,
Form: Rhyme

There Will Be Ducks

...It is a comforting thought that
there will always be ducks in our neighborhood.

Every decade of my life
there have always been Mallards,
though not many fancy ducks.

You can rely on Mallards...
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Categories: simple minded, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Power of Silence

...# baptised in fire forced to drink bleach ~ tongue lost for words cancer speaks beneath #


Here comes the man, with unbreakable bones,
A brain of sawdust, muffles out his groans
Simple minded g...
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Categories: simple minded, allusion, corruption, evil,
Form: Monoku

Whatever When

...Whatever when you look to a lie
 to salvage what started as a good day
When the storm takes over the blue sky
When the cost is a friend lost but you must pay

Whatever when you take advantage of...
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Categories: simple minded, anger,
Form: Free verse

Meteor

...When you fell to earth
did you bring death or life?
Were we first base or a rock too large to miss?

Dead planets are everywhere.
Fire and ice spin around
a deadly vortex
with nothing mild eno...
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Categories: simple minded, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Truly Taught

...Judy Clark taught me
two things
I never forgot


Once while killing
time in class
her irritation I wrought

Kicking a shoe across the
Aisle to a friend
doing same in kind

busily doing 
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Categories: simple minded, 8th grade, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

All Is Signal

...you think I'm simple minded because I'm nice
when all I said was never fear knowledge
after assassinating my inner constable
to no on stage ill effect whatsoever
jury selection being finally reco...
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Categories: simple minded, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

The World I Should Enjoy

...His wisdom did his happiness destroy,
Aiming to know that world he should enjoy;
And wit was his vain, frivolous pretense
Of pleasing others, at his own expense

              - John Wilmot, 2nd...
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Categories: simple minded, angst, fate, places, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSimple Minded

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Categories: simple minded, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMonolithic Monuments

...An ocean's depth lies between The Georgia Guidestones 
and England's Salisbury Plains, where Stonehenge stands.
Though they appear on different continents, they share
mysterious secrets that have ...
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Categories: simple minded, history,
Form: Free verse

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