Best Empty Gesture Poems

Centuries of lies, a hollow myth
Perpetuated by charlatans with great ceremony
The Greatest Show, the living bread
The crowd sustained and animated by necromancy
The will is fused,...

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get this---
you put the person behind you…
you did your best to burn them,
to amicably make closure with them,
to see their face,
however you now imagine it,
in...

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I am the root.
I am the green fuse. 
I am the stem, the bud,
the dry twig,
and the stealthy footstep
that snaps it in the night.
I am...

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I know Nothing, and I know it well;
and that ensures that my head doesn't swell.

Nothing, is something to gripe about;
it fuels my compulsion to shout.

Nothing,...

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lush blue syringes
filled with caked on pus
she is not a mannequin
nor a living doll
nor dead space ajar.
She likes to stare
at the backs of her hands
as...

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Smeared rouge broken nail torn slip
I'd waited for you again after the dance 
a single light flickers a final sign 
to fix my lipstick our...

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So oft' he used to pass my way, and
merrily nod and pass the time of day
with a polite lift of his tall bola-hat
then he'd wander...

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FORGIVING

Forgiveness – well, just let it lay inside
Not to see any daylight, maybe never
No moment of weakness or surrender
If a request received, return to sender
It’s...

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