Instagram Poetry Mockfest

1.

i am power
i am strong
but i am frail in heart

2.

i write like a madman
and get all i want done
but none

3. 

a trick a track
i have tracks up my sleeves
not of heroin needles
but needs

4.

do you want to know me
you can't
because i am an enigma to myself

5.

run through the looking glass
i found alice at the bottom of the hole
and then i drank some rum

6.

i literally can write all of this in ten minutes
with just stream of conscious thought
scary ain't it
this is the effort of a grandmaster
or is it the effort of a poser

7.

am i a poser
or am i only realized
when i write platitudes

8.

instagram poetry sucks
i was told
it took me too short to write
give me meter
rhyme
and not just fortune
i stuck to the high ground

9.

it stinks what's been done to the art
but it all dies by offense

10.

i feel the bones of my depression deep
like a knife cutting my skin
and i feel its razor over my blood
dripping down my side
i say i will not commit suicide
for this is only mental anguish
and not blood

11.

the sad thing about instagram poetry
is the most challenging part of writing it
is undoing the punctuation

12.

i am a powerful warrior
but i lost too much time

13.

i spent twenty years to write this poem
only so another could call me a joke

14.

i truly love to write
don't you know
and i am as good as any
but they stalked me like a tiger
and took away my meal

15.

i thought to myself
i am not the greatest
or the best
but then i saw what was being written
and i said i cannot compete

16.

the princess was there
and i wooed her
but she moved to another table
and i was sad

17.

the princess always saves her self
but when will the princess save her boy

18.

we are all lonely in this world
and whos to blame but men who think
procreation is a sin

19.

if i had a dime for every hour spent in misery
i wouldn't be rich
for i know the misery of those beneath me

for an american i am miserable
which isn't much

20.

i cannot write a stale platitude
though i try

and that is why i cannot be famous
i know too much about nuance

21.

full belly full life
do i write like her
and betray myself so it continues
or do i make my own spin

nobody likes it for gratitude is in famine

22.

take the most lucid thought
and dull it

23.

i am blue and wear my glasses
with the tint of green i saw them in oz
green is life blue is sadness
i know not which one to wear

24.

oh please let me write my odes
which let me express the full measure of my thoughts
so i do not get relegated to this

25.

i could literally write fifty of these
in less than an hour
as time to write is only worth every stroke
yet the lioness stole the prey
and mercy stands by waiting for me