Stagnation Poems

Premium Member'STEM' means Stagnation

     The most popular educational trend
        Courses labeled as ‘STEM’   
     Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
        Offerings that lead to destruction and wrath

     Nuclear fusion and fission they
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Categories: stagnation, education, irony, science, technology,
Form: Rhyme

Lady Wonder

No, I ain’t wrote.
I’ve been caught up
In the greatest things they say
Life has to offer.

But, in the midst
Of all my success,
I find myself feeling
Oddly like a pauper.

And in my darkest
Days and hours,
I get to thinking of the time
We spent together.

Your whispers
Never failed
To set my brushes
Hissing all across
The canvases of summer.

It’s strange of me
To come back
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Categories: stagnation, fantasy, grief, inspiration, longing,
Form: Lyric


EMBODY YOURSELF

Know yourself 
If not
People gonna 
Write your story
Forgetting your history 
But just for their glory.

They make you feel 
Like you're nothing 
Just to make you lazy
Feeling above you
Then act crazy 
Making you the villain
Just put you on surveillance.

Steadily watching 
Your moves and motives 
So they can put you 
On slow motion 
Causing confusion 
Leaving you
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Categories: stagnation, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic

Steps Beyond Stagnation

Inertia's whispered promise: stagnation's dark shroud
We risk being lost in the undertow of untaken steps
Not all of us will wear the mantle of wealth
But inaction's chill grasp, we can all be poor
Education's radiant light may not illuminate every path
Yet, without effort, ignorance's heavy chains can bind us all
Love's sacrament, marriage, may elude some of us
But
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Categories: stagnation, allegory, allusion, class, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Yes, I know

It’s really quite hard
I was dealt a bad hand
Nothing written in the cards
And I don’t have a plan

I couldn’t make this up
I couldn’t if I tried
I guess this is the point
That I’m at in my life

I’m batting for first base
And I’m back at square one
Always end up in this place
When I think that I’m done

I’m
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Categories: stagnation, depression, mental health, mental
Form: Rhyme


The Resolution Door

Back against "The Resolution Door"

the first thing that hits you is the

depravity, then self-loathing follows 

close behind. Then just when hoping 

the first thought was getting better.

That you're getting the upper-hands  

and there can't be too much longer.

The head goes light, as the light goes 

out. 

When the lights come on, reality sets

in.

Obstructed by
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Categories: stagnation, adventure, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTruly integrated

First you get
Castigated.' Because they are?
Irritated.'
Next you get, indoctrinated through
Being educated.'
Then you'll be casterated
That gets you celebrated.'
Then you can, get trans-mutated
As truth becomes mutilated
Yet before all this goodness related
Can happen.' Did you get wormed?
And Hack-cinated.?

Only because juval haraani, needs to know??
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Categories: stagnation, addiction, appreciation, character, education,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNo Anchor For Rancour - Comp

The rocks on the sea bed
Can be friendly in storms
When our sails are bedraggled
Or all tattered and torn

From our voyage on seas
Often left unexplored
But there's truth in the water
That cannot be ignored

In the wind is the Spirit
An adventurer's friend
So we move in directions
To where searching may end

There are hazards aplenty
As the salty air calls
There's that
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Categories: stagnation, boat, christian, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Stagnation

In a dream, I was on a mission.
A mission to rescue a nation.
A nation in a quagmire.
A quagmire not as usual.

A high mountain, I had to climb.
Climb it, in its nakedness.
Nakedness and grassless up to the crest.
Up to the crest, it was slippery.

Up I looked. It was all stiff nature.
Nature hindered me reach the peak.
But
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Categories: stagnation, adventure, courage, loss,
Form: Free verse

Life Is What It Is

You say Life is rough
O tell me what makes it tough;
If not of your idiosyncrasy
Life is a rock of intricacy
Room of animation and stagnation
Those must be tasted as abnegation
Yes, even the opulent must travel through

So live it madly or sweetly
And sing it silently or loudly.
Life is dark mode's light
It shines when lit
And overshadows the dark
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Categories: stagnation, care, career, happiness, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStagnation

stagnation a trait
which many soon come to hate
for what it negates
refusing to look, see, hear
beyond beliefs most hold dear

hardening one's mind
to those seeming unrefined
yields socially blind
unaware people are blend
of diverse thoughts, forms and trends

becoming like rock
which requires an extreme shock
to look past own flock
know evolution's in play
existence makes new each day

stagnation a curse
making humanity worse
stuck
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Categories: stagnation, change, culture, fate, humanity,
Form: Tanka

Stagnation

I like when things remain the same;
Stagnation is my favorite game.
I play so well I never lose;
What’s set in stone makes me enthuse.

While others might redecorate 
Or even move, I can’t relate.
New furniture does not entice;
My stuff is old, but still, it’s nice.

It isn’t normal, I’ve been told,
Becoming worse as I grow old.
I wish I
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Categories: stagnation, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStagnation

Voters ventilate
Politicians vacillate
Democro-demise
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Categories: stagnation, analogy, corruption, games, lost,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberExit Stagnation

Exit stagnation to be free
Else in bondage remain
Love is truth, all else contrary 
High time we bliss ingrain

Why languish here, fear fraught
Pause thought, ego begot
Reclaim light, we forgot

Vibrant cessation
Exit stagnation 

19-October-2021
Quietus 
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Categories: stagnation, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStagnation

come now, wipe that stupid grin off our face 
thought patterns cause of stupor
let silence set us free

19-August-2021
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Categories: stagnation, silence,
Form: Kimo

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