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Best Afflicts Poems

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The Royal Curse
It afflicts king and queen alike.
Brought to the castle 
by the master of infildelity.
He moves smoothly from one to the other.
He swiftly takes them 
as...

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Categories: afflicts, caregiving, health, history, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Perfect Story
The Perfect Story!!

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ingredients.... How to write the perfect story?

 

Tonight I close my eyes, enter the realm in another form

Dig deep inside to find the...

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Categories: afflicts, addiction, adventure, beautiful, passion,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A World On Fire
We live today in a world of great tumult
And of rising uncertainty and anxiety 
Which pervade the world stage like a cancer

Despite soaring technological advances
Our...

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Categories: afflicts, allegory, change, earth, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member With God, I Can
With God’s omnipotence that does attest His wondrous might
I can overcome temptation with its sinful temerity
While fighting valiantly transgressions’ filthiness…
…Pursuing after holiness in living for...

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Categories: afflicts, blessing, character, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Time
Time
Nothingness in it belies
A continuum, uncanny
In all lives it defines
Love, hate, rage and litany

A motion on its own
Sweeping, inescapable
A yardstick mankind bemoans
Perpetual journey, irreversible

It’s life’s...

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© Jit Lim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicts, imagination,
Form: Imagism



Centripetal
The crimson moon bawls on his flight
Doleful to be condemned to night

His samba partner teems with life
Yet he hangs listless filled with strife

Whilst craters pock...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicts, devotion, life, naturemoon,
Form: Couplet
Bayanihan
Tacloban City, 
Heavily Damaged: 10,000 feared dead, 
cadavers of ripped children litter on the streets, 
Ormoc City, 
Totally Devastated: People are desperate, 
the streets are...

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Categories: afflicts, environment,
Form: Classicism
I Cannot Single Handedly Manage
I cannot single handedly manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis

Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably,...

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Categories: afflicts, angst, birth, dad, fate,
Form: Free verse
My Declaration of Independence To Addiction and the Persons I Affected
"I PROUDLY PROCLAIM:

I did it for me! Not of guilt, nor shame.
A simple desire to end Heroin's evil reign!
For once in my life, I gave...

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Categories: afflicts, addiction, forgiveness, freedom, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Medical Conditions of Cartoon Characters
Medical Conditions of Cartoon Characters

By Elton Camp

Barbie and Ken look just right
Cartoon characters are no delight
There is old Porky Pig, if you please 
Obviously he...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicts, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Professor Watts' Resurrection
Double-binding Win-Win
nondual manifest destiny of health
as wealth of eco-consciousness,
like double-transparency of ecologic's Yang,
with eco-normic YinYin-square-rooted
c-squared = e-squared = Language-squared,
Positive OVER AND WITH double-negative
subjective/objective Time's decomposing...

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Categories: afflicts, culture, environment, math, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
For Election Day 2016
When I think about this year 
and all the stories that we hear
of Clinton's crimes, and Trump's remarks,
and how the media embarks

on efforts to distort...

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© J. Patrick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicts, poems, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Impartial Insights Or Intellectual Snobbery In Thiru-Valluvar's Thiruk-Kural: Canto 84 Peethaimai
Impartial insight into Human Nature or intellectual Snobbery in Thiru-Valluvar's THIRU-KURAL: Canto 84 - PEETHAIMAI*

[Note: Throughout his oeuvre, there can be found aphorisms which broadly...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicts, abuse, character, sympathy, tamil,
Form: Epigram
The Anxious Mind
So fragile life and human conscious,
Mindful wander, erratic, of untold purpose,
Bringing shadowy foreboding,
To the depths of our spirit; a dangerous curse.

Tragedy is looming, catch your...

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Categories: afflicts, healthlife,
Form: I do not know?
Climate Change and Bayanihan
Tacloban City, 
Heavily Damaged: 10,000 feared dead, 
cadavers of ripped children litter on the streets, 
Ormoc City, 
Totally Devastated: People are desperate, 
the streets are...

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Categories: afflicts, environment,
Form: Classicism

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