Unimaginative Poems

Premium MemberTension

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In a world of cutthroat 
Competition
Tension is a malady
Too common
To ignore;
Often
Inherited from
Parents
Who themselves may have
Received the DNA
From their own;

I am a pas...
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Categories: unimaginative, anxiety, conflict, health, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Must Have Been In Sleepy Hollow

...Headless horseman came in the dead of night, but he made no sound.
His stallion did though – it neighed and whinnied and twirled around.
You must have been in Sleepy Hollow a relative said.
He is ...
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Categories: unimaginative, halloween,
Form: Rhyme


Running the Gauntlet

...~Running the Gauntlet ~
Simplistic in its structure…
Nearly amateurish…
Unpolished attempt…
Superficial…
Facile…
Without subtlety…
Nonsensical…
Journalistic attempt at prose…
Lack of complex...
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Categories: unimaginative, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Chapter Ixv

...I had an epiphany
While reading Spring and All.
Why do I make poetry?
Is it a certain call?
A call from my mind that needs release?
A call to improve a skill?
A call to write one good ...
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Categories: unimaginative, art, confusion, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Broken Trance

...We are meant to break the ice of hibernation. 

Each year as spring begins. 

All winter was a trance.

Which kept me warm, but also unimaginative. 

Now, I am uninhibited. 

Spring is, at ...
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Categories: unimaginative, appreciation, seasons,
Form: Free verse


That Photograph, That Day

...Your face, alive, looking at another, gone.
Paper. Nothing on the other side or known to be.
You puzzle my unimaginative mind,
That image has no evolution that I find
To frame a fascination from,...
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Categories: unimaginative, devotion, first love, jealousy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTrying To Fit Into Boxes

...She is a teen
No idea she is gorgeous
Trying to be like other teens
Not recognizing her own talents and uniqueness

They wear a streak of blue in their hair, so she does too
The “popular” teens...
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Categories: unimaginative, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTale of the Night Movers

...*Image of Lovers Night by Pinterest.

Tale of The Night Movers

Hail, a phantom moon
traversing its cloaked
chambered recesses
of her prevalent crown.

Unspool gently and host
m...
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Categories: unimaginative, extended metaphor, good night,
Form: Metrical Tale

Moving On

...Moving on is what they all want to do,
But the victims can't because they are too traumatised,
Or their bodies too damaged,
Maybe even worse, with all contact in this world severed.

The parents...
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Categories: unimaginative, abuse, addiction, age, anger,
Form: Didactic

Linen and Lace

...She lived to be the oldest of a staid, 
unremarkable bourgeois family.
Lavender and off-white lace,
complemented her black ruffled attire.
She played the Granddame with much aplomb,
the matriarc...
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Categories: unimaginative, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Origami Kiss

...Dragonflies impossibly maneuver,
defying aerodynamics.
Obviously, there is something wrong with our 
calculations, 
even bumble bees behave like U.F.O’s.
Da Vinci, sketched flying machines
ever...
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Categories: unimaginative, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Rash

...It’s been said I’m unimaginative
but I don’t really care
I don’t write for the groupies
of the one with no hair

I try to spread awareness
of the lies you think are true
We’re sick and tired o...
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Categories: unimaginative, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThere In Glistening Dewdrops, Invisible Worlds May Lie

...There In Glistening Dewdrops, Invisible Worlds May Lie

There in glistening dewdrops, invisible worlds may lie,
unseen yet thriving beyond unimaginative thoughts,
etching those magical moments as...
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Categories: unimaginative, art, deep, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberProbabilities For Alexander Pope

...To err is human; to forgive, divine

1. Shared virtues be are friends eternal

2. A futile step is a worthless journey

3. In a public forum, liberty is oft impugned

4. Evil is often ...
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Categories: unimaginative, poetry,
Form: List

Arrived

...When
they come,
what will
they see?
Organics,
animals.
A world
full of animals.
Dirty messy,
animals.
Animals
steeped in 
instincts, 
controlling.
Animals fighting.
Pecking order,
fig...
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Categories: unimaginative, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

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