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Unexceptional Poems - Poems about Unexceptional

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage... unexpectedly came about, when possible prospect of the wife going to Puerto Rico by herself (for a fêted celebration of our eldest daughter ......

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Categories: unexceptional, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Do I Fit In
... Neither exceptional nor unexceptional Where do I fit in... With all the rest of humankind ~ no one’s free of sin ......

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Categories: unexceptional, humanity, sin, together,
Form: Rhyme



The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
...The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris I led a boring life. The end. All joking aside, now the epilogue. As a bookish fellow born Januar......

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Categories: unexceptional, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
shadows
...places I have never been emerge in my dreams not once but several times a deep tunnel rising mostly smooth, some steps peopled by unknown shadows purposes seemingly so real but completely unde......

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Categories: unexceptional, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanilla Is
...“Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes all the same” from first verse of “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds Vanilla Is . . . ......

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Categories: unexceptional, emotions,
Form: List



Premium Member Waiting To Confess
...Chin thrust forward, held in right hand pleasant sweep of hair graces unexceptional forehead Thoughts percolate, bubble lightly, retreat mouth scrunched up into grudging position......

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Categories: unexceptional, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Imagism
Zen Death Haiku X
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU X These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Forbearing the night with its growing brilliance: the summer moon. —Tsukioka Yooshi (1839-1892) , lo......

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Categories: unexceptional, age, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
Mother's Stories
...I warned you about Mother telling her stories. I warned you, but you wouldn’t listen. I warned you about the magic of golem and djinn, about lilac walks and mysterious circuses. Stranded mi......

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Categories: unexceptional, books, childhood, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Innocent
...Just because I am unexceptional- Does make me innocent. The influence of trauma- Is what allows me to gather the past that is forever altered. As my disability comes into full bloom- ......

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Categories: unexceptional, angst,
Form: Free verse
Notability
...Best case scenario - my fame walking into the future, all my failed handiworks recognized as avant garde – well before their time. Honor and distinction heaped-up posthumously. An unexceptional ......

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Categories: unexceptional, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Warrington Prophetess
...Allowed preachers to be unexceptional Sacrificed priesthood as liberty ordain Prophecy lingua by Hiberno accent Endued with melodic timbrels and dances No differs from Sufi whirling for their God......

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Categories: unexceptional, patriotic, peace, tribute,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Smudged Ink
...Loin cloth draped around his anorexic body the Buddha Searched for the Middle Way between Nothing and All Counted his blessings and figs as his thoughts focussed In meditation for humility c......

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Categories: unexceptional, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Doctors Particularly Biomedical Engineers
...Doctors (particularly biomedical engineers)... really trolley train hard to keep track of patients Eye tell ya we (spuds) pulled up stakes after four yar and zero scores ago living in Bryn Mawr......

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Categories: unexceptional, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Tech-No-Logic
...Tech-No-Logic Of keyboard and swipe a screens deliberation circuit electronic in metal skin and paper thin push button hums the chord of plastic tech-no-logical inventum such marvels to grind......

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Categories: unexceptional, nature, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ordinary Orange
... In life and nature orange is all around us, just ordinary orange, orange cats, nothing special, orange leaves we kick out of the way; marigold flowers and we just walk by, ordinary things in......

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Categories: unexceptional, life,
Form: Free verse

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