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Afoul Poems - Poems about Afoul

Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Old MacDonald or Afoul of Vowels
...Old MacDonald had a farm With some noisy critters on it. They mostly mooed, or neighed, Or clucked, or brayed, But some stayed Resolutely mute, I'm afraid. It wasn't his equines, Or bovines, ......

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Categories: afoul, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Song of The Sandhill Crane No 1: ABAB
...A descension of value bows night scenes, the purple canopy edges its hoist, spirits cool Platte River to lose its sheen, Nebraskans wake to clarion fields voiced. A loyal guest calls, it's the Sa......

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Categories: afoul, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
...My heart’s harbour opened deep and wide all friendships peaceful within Love and kindness ran deep inside ‘til resentment and rancour crept in Do you harbour resentment? or do you freely forgi......

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Categories: afoul, anger, forgiveness, friendship, hate,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member So Little Known of Mary's Man
...So little known of Mary's man, Only that he was righteous, just. Betrothal gone afoul of plan, He sought divorce, discrete, no fuss. Did you have doubts of your betrothed, A fleeting thought t......

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Categories: afoul, appreciation, father, husband,
Form: Quatrain
Soulmate
...Soulmate outsourcing my soul... Why our hearts are in afoul? Silence reign in this meadowsweet house... Divorce sheets on the bed for the delouse... Unhouse our beloved belongings, Unwed o......

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Categories: afoul, break up, deep, divorce,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Death of a Poet
...I read my obituary Accolades run afoul to lighten the souls of the living Trite clichés, forgotten kin, melodic tributes Boring and meaningless Upon a granite stone etched for an eternity I wa......

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Categories: afoul, death, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caught
...Words like birds encircle clouds in altitudes and attitudes that stretch and strain my feelings to contain. Atmospheres so thin they are denied their place, no words or birds in space. The histor......

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Categories: afoul, bird, courage, endurance, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Frenemy
...‘Tis a tingle at the tips of thy lips where I shall plant a kiss,_ then slightly lick the curves and slopes of their mounds to partake _ of the taste of treachery that lingers with thee still. ......

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Categories: afoul, bereavement, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
It Was All a Lie
...I remember back to Michael Brown, though it now seems so damn long ago, He was just minding his own business, ran afoul of a cop’s ego. Murdered in cold blood for being black, the man had even t......

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Categories: afoul, betrayal, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member By Your Side
...~ By your Side ~ Keep me close by your side when the north winds howl I'll snuggle tight in your lap through the night hours' chill Those who call me a 'creature' will soon run afoul Of a cry d......

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Categories: afoul, best friend, day, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Owl Omen
...Heed the owl's omen! Peril peers all men. As norms run afoul now release the owl. With its silent wing let it soar and sing. Wind shrieks in our ear talons pierce the fear. Foolish minds do r......

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Categories: afoul, bird, cry, death, flying,
Form: Couplet
Other People's Freedom, Part I
...Autumn though of herself as a kind soul, and she took great pride in her compassion, she believed things could be made perfect, and her voting reflected this fashion. She was to see that the we......

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Categories: afoul, betrayal, dark, evil, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Goat -- Or Goat
...Michael Jordan, number twenty-three Greatest of all time, that ever be? He and his Bulls were sure 'a-rambling' Till he ran afoul of his penchant for gambling......

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Categories: afoul, basketball, star, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member In My Dappled Dream I Saw You
...In My Dappled Dream I Saw You In my dappled dream I saw you, Your shimmering ghost, young again, As we were, when soft flares hid your brown legs, There, in the warm April shadows, us Astride ......

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Categories: afoul, freedom, romance,
Form: Free verse
When Reason Falls
...It’s hard to do the right thing when fate calls your name out loud Where not only the bad get punished in its pursuit The world has lost its way along the path of least resistance ......

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Categories: afoul, memory, rights,
Form: Rhyme

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