Words are made communicate and poetry communicates more clearly then any other medium what one truly thinks and feels. That's why I think poems are so hit or miss. Either you feel how the author does or you don't, convincing is best left to essays. Poetry is pure expression. Here is mine
Ordered arbitrarily
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The human question
A poem about the question of why humans keep doing anything at all. Inconclusive
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A lament for Fabius
A poem about a striking metaphor in a book I read a while ago. Ten billion points if anyone figures out which Fabius this is about
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Work
A poem about the experience of working in an office
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Sweet Carcosa
A poem about madness and its liberation.
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Failing at being loved
I am really not a person for love poems, but I am still a person, and there is a reason love poems are probably the most numerous ones. lol