Best Failure Poems

They are in meaningless session again
Not seeking to serve but to practice the deception
Not seeking to lead but to mislead
Taking black and white, creating gray
Don't wave that flag if you do not honor it
Oppression by omission. You have given
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Failure

Vows were exchanged

Many promises made

Two hearts crushed as feelings vanished

Breakdown




Entry for Catie's "traditional cinquain" contest...

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Much to the chagrin of those who
would prefer to lay witness to 
one's failure's,
Imagine not for the slightest
moment  that our will has become 
so weak as to allow compliance.

Where once our vision may have
been clouded and our boundaries
seemed forever shattered,
know in the end ...

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I once wrote a poem that fit
All the contest descriptions. And it
Was praised with much grace,
I was hopeful to place,
But completely forgot to submit!

For Jan's NA collaboration, if she thinks this is within the prompt....

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And all it happened
As i feared
Turned into life
A nightmare
When i touched the flame
I burned down
All my ashes
Lingered around
Seeing the sky
Lying on disgust
Can never bring stars
Into your palm anigh.
Awake
And revive
From those ashes
And burn down those stars 
With victory of crashes.


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FAILURE

You will fail
You will fail as surely as you draw breath
Failure is a part of physical being
In physical history    failure outweighs success
It is many times to one
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On top of failure
Is a lonely Lucifer
Awaiting my arrival
I have fallen below bounds
That were once so familiar to my feet
So, the ground feels different,
Hotter and slightly unstable
Much like my temperament
And in this case
‘F’ does not signify fantastic
But we all know what it means...

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Failure
By Jan Beaumont 

My face is red, my brow is wet,
My temper's really frayed
I just can't do it, it's too tough
My failure's well displayed.

Though many can, it's just not me,
I'm useless through and through
They've tried to show me but it's just
A thing that I can't...

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Have you ever died, still on your feet?

Did you lay your heart open?

Did it break at their feet?

Did they trample it down?

Did the hurt make you weak?

And how many days will you continue to weep?

Know your worth, and lift up your chin, look forward, 

that's...

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Failing at something one tries to achieve, is not a failure

but not trying again once he has failed, undoubtedly, is!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      15 July 2020...

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Tomorrow has become today once more
Another day has passed in loneliness
Afraid to love, it's my fault I confess
That feeling of rejection I deplore

This emptiness inside I can't ignore
The love which I now save but can't express
Each time I try, it ends without success
It seems my...

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dreams
decapitated

damsel in
deadlock

disappointed
disillusioned

will dust off
try again



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 8, 2020...

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This lockdown has me locked out of your heart
Though closer than a thought, we're miles apart
The shroud of silence settles tightly in
My words die on my lips before they start

Outside a monster howls in constant rage
Inside we beat our hands on walled-in cage 
Our dreams...

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FAITH NOT, FEAR!

When the ole’ devil tells you that you
are not going to make is and that you are going down
you are going to have to tell him, “Sorry, you’re the one
who is going down, I am going up!

When he says, “You are a failure”,...

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dust to dust, whether a success or a bust, life will end for it must!...

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