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Unfulfilling Poems - Poems about Unfulfilling

A broken chain or A cursed covenant

...A court-ordered fist full of responsibility.
An anonymous man, unraveling beneath the weight of his own faulty circuitry.

Infidelity sparked a chain of conformity—one so unfortunate, it defied pr...
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Categories: unfulfilling, 12th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse

A Childhood Friend

...It was a normal day,
The day he had his first puff.
Children played beneath the sun,
And weary songs filled the air.

Time didn’t stop as he’d been told,
Not even the old man cast a glance
As ...
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Categories: unfulfilling, addiction, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Hunger Unfed

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Many a hunger goes unfed.
Some adjust and live with it,
finding satisfaction in suitable activities.
Others push that hunger down, deeper and deeper,
filling the empty hole inside themselves
w...
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Categories: unfulfilling, people,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberThe Last Memory

...I sit to ponder on my life and death,
knowing one day my memories will end.
As I approach my last days I don't want yesterday,
to be more important than tomorrow.
I don't want to relive the shade...
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Categories: unfulfilling, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife For the Aged

...Life for the Aged

Old age comes with an eighteen wheeler’s load of hurt.
Old age comes with the rest of life, permeated with pain.

Old age comes with loads of memories, experiences missed.
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Categories: unfulfilling, old,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberCognitive Dissonance

...Mind, the architect of life’s structure,
obeys what is learnt as the art of living.
Heart, the carrier of nonlinear abstract intellect,
breathes emotive truth in the framework of being.

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Categories: unfulfilling, conflict, confusion, heart, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEagle Impression

...In days, when I was in twenties, I thought, 
Looking at an eagle made my blood clot; 
A crude-looking rude being that could kill,
A chick and feel this act as just chill-pill...! 

Scavenger bir...
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Categories: unfulfilling, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Conquered and Departed

...You came you conquered, tearing foundations from the ground up. Up went fictitious buildings with hollow fronts easily to be exploited again. The time it took to accept what was, what could have been...
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Categories: unfulfilling, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Sonata By Moonlight

...Dancing in the moonlight
Fanciful figures appear in the mist
With flowing white gowns
And a crown of pink lilacs exist

Love conquers the coldest of hearts
Turns men into little boys
A...
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Categories: unfulfilling, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFamily Mediations

...I have confronted family,
and acquaintances
at the edge of my familiars
to understand my hurt
when they economically
and politically
and socially
and monoculturally
StraightWhiteMale privileg...
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Categories: unfulfilling, america, anti bullying, earth,
Form: Political Verse

Torturous Existence

...It hurts when it feels like everything is up in the air,
It hurts when life doesn't seem fair

It hurts when happiness disappears without warning,
It hurts when you have to endure unceasing mourn...
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Categories: unfulfilling, cry, dark, depression, grief,
Form: Couplet

Complication

...Complication


I felt the suction as you pulled back
The room fell silent, stale
Breath hung in my throat
Clung like smoke 
Each swallow a tightening rope
A little less hope
You were already...
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Categories: unfulfilling, absence, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLove Or Lust

...Love 
Passionate, romantic 
Pining, enduring, pleasing 
Sweetheart, fiancée, pick-up, convenience 
Uncaring, unsatisfying, unfulfilling 
Quick, disastrous      
Lust
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Categories: unfulfilling, crush, love, lust, meaningful,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberRoses of Agony

...I am being told to let go
By almost everyone I know
Release, let it out, let it be
Plunge into passivity
 
While I cling to bitter beauty
My bruises bloom a thorny tree
Guarding roses of agony...
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Categories: unfulfilling, anger, grief, pain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGadflies and Honeybees

...Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?

Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
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Categories: unfulfilling, culture, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse

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