Best Conflicted Poems

My mind is burning, blazing, turning
With doubts and irrational drivels
My heart is livid and hardened
For it freezes in the potentials of disappointment
Of failure, downfall, and...

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I looked out at America
from my porch the other day,
Unusual, it's appearance,
seems so different I would say.

Problems in abundance,
so many that I see,
but this was...

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Not a day goes by I don't think of you
you have permeated my fortress and walk freely in all its rooms
(examining it's furnishings)
how did I...

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Boy, such a gas
Boy, so much fun
Boy, what a job
Boy, wanna run 

Oh, the pleasure
Oh, the pain
Oh, the freedom
Oh, the strain

Gee, a poem?
Gee, with blanks?
Gee,...

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She never thought this would happen.

She broke protocol. She never thought 
that she 

would fall in love with a man at all. But it's 
fifteen...

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impossible obedience required
as she melted with reluctance
in familiar mystery

a lonely splendor broken
by bewildered whispers
and weak hearts unite

Lay
...

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I love my mom 
with unabashed cliche,
                  ...

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What cruel-hearted fiend would fashion a soul,
only so it could bow and sing empty praise,
pretending that love is some worthwhile goal,
expecting satisfaction from meaningless days?

Not...

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I really shouldn't,
     But some part of me want you,
And I don't know what to do....

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Look for love in your heart
I'm leaving you with:
Someday you will recognize
Some breakups are doomed.

Today I can be an unfulfilled poet
Snoring and heartlessness
alike star at...

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i wanted it all
yet i couldn't let go
to grasp the future
of my dreams
there within my reach



AP: 1st place 2022

Posted on June 1, 2022...

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Holding onto uncertain acquaintances 
Afraid of being lonely in this big world 
Good grace comes to those non deserving of its light 
Pain and sorrow...

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Victim written all over me
But strength lies deep within
Unsure who I should set free
Whose heart my actions underpin
Which ego is my alter
At which altar do...

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I’ve been restricted from birth’
 I was born with a leash 
I’ve never been on land and I feel like a fish
Restricted like a boat...

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a common denominator
eager, calm, procrastinator
all those hoping to be greater
take on the ego deflater

self aware, in tune and clear-eyed
the completely bonafide
abruptly lost, quiet,tongue tied
embarrassed, trying...

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