Confessions of a Tired Poet

By clroldan

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What kind of poem would you write if you stopped caring about everybody else? Confessions of a Tired Poet is... More

The Sun
Diary
The Devil
City Nights
She Reads Poems to Me at Midnight
2 AM
Quatrains
Fire
Life of a Poet
The Uncrowned King
The Town Where Only I Am Missing
Consistency
There Are Better Things Than Dreams
No
What Rhymes With 'Regression'
Empty Theater
Drift
Hypocrisy
His Plea
Ode of a Seafarer
A Gladiator's Home
A Quatrain for the People Who Made Fun of Me
A Millennial's Love
Caution
Dear Lady Bedspacer
A Drunk Poet's Poem
Dance The Night Away
Basophobia
Raindrops
Bullying
What We Hear When We Eavesdrop
Insomnia
A Poem for Shena

One-Sided

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By clroldan

Is it still fashionable
to wear my heart on my sleeve?
Or should I just keep it in my pocket
and give it its much-sought reprieve?

Should I find solace in silence
and wager that you'll notice?
I've already looked through different lenses,
I swear that I know this

If I stepped out of the shadows,
would you finally notice me?
Or would you walk right through me
and end this one-sided plea?

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