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[โ€“] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Cool wind blows

Autumn's herald harkens

Balls sweat no more

[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 5 days ago

No poem has ever instilled such wistful hope in me before

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

And as the leaves fall, I am falling for them.

[โ€“] gibmiser@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Fuck this shit

I want out

Let me go

Home

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Written like a man at work on a slow day!

[โ€“] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We need rain, I'm told.

It rains, complaints grow tenfold.

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The rain disrupts the soil, the soul disrupted in turn.

[โ€“] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What even is a poem?

I never understood art really...

[โ€“] 0_0j@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I see what you did there sir

[โ€“] jay2@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Listen! Listen! The Cats Pissin... Where! Where! Under The Chair...

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[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
A window to the world
without any Windows

My Computer.
[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

(I wrote it in a few second before looking at the OP post, but the form turned out remarkably similar)

[โ€“] sniggleboots@europe.pub 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Don't tell me

What to do

You're not my dad

[โ€“] 0_0j@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Shit, ten words spot on

[โ€“] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Calm and contented

For nothing happened today.

I am satisfied

[โ€“] bizarroland@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You'll wish you'd chosen

not to leap

right...

about...

now

[โ€“] spykee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

As my life flashes before me,

I suddenly love it.

[โ€“] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fucking fuck. Fuck me dude. Fucking hell I swear. Fuck

[โ€“] 0_0j@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Dude I cracked lol

That's fucking beautiful, dude.

[โ€“] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

I lack the wit, so I can't rhyme for shit.

[โ€“] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

everything you do matters, except all the bathroom splatters. shit.

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

They matter to me when I go in there to pee.

[โ€“] oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
The poems
I wrote,
I love 'em
but I'm broke.
[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The kids are fighting again.

I love being their dad!

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

A dispute between children strikes fear into all weary minds.

[โ€“] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The "I" was silent. Thank you!

[โ€“] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hahaha best dad response ever

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[โ€“] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago

In the night we can't see an absence of light

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Life is too short
Make of it
What you can

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[โ€“] A_Wild_Zeus_Chase@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Vainly struggle

Against ill intent

Until we recede

Into oblivion

[โ€“] spykee 3 points 5 days ago

Hodor hodor hodor,
Hodor hodor.
Hodor hodor hodor,
Hodor hodor.

[โ€“] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago
darkness falls
on old days of life
of a fool
[โ€“] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Poetry is hard to

[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

women, girls, ladies

a lifetime is insufficient

to appreciate you

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[โ€“] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Hobby horse, eat a cake Jump around, break your leg

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[โ€“] url@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There are two or three and sometimes four? Potentially... more.

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[โ€“] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The glowing sun projects its rays, consciousness reflects the age.

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

My mind slows, but the world hastens with every day.

[โ€“] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Fuck this shit

Fuck this shit

Seriously

Fuck this shit

[โ€“] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My cat died

New cats

One's anxiety

Is too much

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[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cats move with silent, elegant grace and watchful glowing eyes.

[โ€“] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Admire, if you will, the most optimized feline specimen yet.

[โ€“] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The clock ticks on. Though, the promised hour never comes.

[โ€“] kriz@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

Crushing reality, Hurtling towards destruction. I need to do more.

[โ€“] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Wondering into the endless sunset,

Stumbling time and time again

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