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Vain Effort Poems - Poems about Vain Effort


Premium Member Baffles
...Squirrels leap with vain effort, Baffles guard the seeds. Autumn's bounty held aloft, Nature's jest in silent play.......

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Categories: vain effort, bird,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Great Message From My Friend Benny Berry
...Only thing is at closing he said the only way we can get back to a true marital relationship as being One with God is for “us to allow Him” to clear out the clutter of all the shallow religious servi......

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Categories: vain effort, fate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Vain Effort
...I close my eyes to fend off all sad scenes from sight but my mind is not always shut it lets the biting ants of pain come in crawling through every narrow slit tormenting me endless in......

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Categories: vain effort, angst, dark, sorrow,
Form: Rictameter
Game of Life
...Life : game. Name ; fame. One can succeed who plays tricks, Who laid foundation with flattery bricks. Gain ; loss. Happen because Life : game Which need Is : heed Which you really ......

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Categories: vain effort, games, life, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woe To Dead Works
...Dead works... sown to profit with grandiose worth midst carnal motives of utilitarian gain lurking in the guise of selfless sacrifice yet awaiting futility's harvest... Woe unto me, and ......

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Categories: vain effort, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Studies At the Station
...I sometimes sit At the train station And watch the people Go by. They sweep past Hurriedly, filling the quiet Of my thoughts With bustling energy. Then a little one’s head Will turn, inqu......

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Categories: vain effort, adventure, child, encouraging, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dad, Continued
......cont Breath... You once said to me,"I'm a man of extremes," and I understood immediately what you meant. When you drank, you drank hard. When you worked you expected perfection, in yourself ......

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Categories: vain effort, dad,
Form: Elegy
Marching Rocks
...Marching Rocks Like Toffee people chasing the westerly breeze And, presumably ordered, abruptly, to freeze- Tableaux is evocative of an ancient command That left a sprawl of stones scatte......

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Categories: vain effort,
Form: Couplet
The Moon Is Hidden Somewhere In the Clouds
...The clouds are dark, And scary, Not a single star is twinkling, The sky looks dense and without any glitters! The clouds and the moon are lark, Although its very dark! Frequent moving c......

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Categories: vain effort, naturelight, light, moon,
Form: I do not know?
The Guilts of Every Soul
...They guilts of every soul are deeply hidden within, carrying an unconceivably needless weight... and yet nobody is willing to get of it by shunning sin; they would rather conceal it and live wi......

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Categories: vain effort, faith, forgiveness, love, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dreams Floating In An Eternal Darkness
...Blackness surrounding me Streaked with differing shades of grey Shards of hope fly by Shattered dreams from ages past Reflecting the total lack of light Just out of my grasp Why are they here t......

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Categories: vain effort, angst, depression, sadhope,
Form: Free verse
Missive To Rg
...Reason bare of structure like a storm Ovulating in an angry sea Stir sedition and juxtaposes its norm Ego-wise against a season's glee Latent turbulence primed with insecurity Drizzled from a te......

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Categories: vain effort, angst, hope, people
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Final Moment of Light
...The last golden beams of sunlight Shining bands cast an amber tint to the world Reaching out into a darkening Heaven Grabbing at the sky in a final vain effort It reaches for stars too distant to......

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Categories: vain effort, nature, timeworld,
Form: Free verse

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