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Best Amuck Poems

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Escaping Rhymed Detonation
Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amuck, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism



Theory of Devolution
I am a pacifist I despise war.
It’s the only thing I actually hate.
I’m never able to brace myself for
Diplomacy that deteriorates:
Recriminating dialogue amuck
That results in...

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Categories: amuck, people, war
Form: Sonnet
Hockey War
Imagine life without a war,
And just a hockey game to score,
When countries start to point the blame,
They take it out in a hockey game.

If someone...

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Categories: amuck, hockey, humor,
Form: Couplet
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand...

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Categories: amuck, betrayal, courage, devotion, love,
Form: Prose
A Valentine Party --Free Love
Invitation to a Valentine Bash

(Direction to the Venue)

I live on the Heartland Estate
across from the Elysian Fields,
At the corner of Lovers Lane
and Pure Passion Boulevard
in...

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Categories: amuck, love, valentines day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Earth Disturbers
Hoping and praying for peace, and peace of mind. 
The earth disturbers are busy.
They will not leave well enough alone. 
They do not work in...

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Categories: amuck, abuse, bangla, betrayal, earth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Gilgamesh
GILGAMESH . . .  

Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk

So the people...

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Categories: amuck, adventure, best friend, brother,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Halloween Night
Across the land he strides this night,
Amide the living and the dead.
He goes confidently in search of a fight,
Harboring no amount of dread.
He seeks those...

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Categories: amuck, adventure, fear, holiday, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Afoul of a Fowl
Time has come for getting tough
               For I have now had...

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Categories: amuck, animal, child, humor, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silly Lines
~ Silly Lines~

My main line muse ran away on this sunny this day –
 My confuser got confused - rhythms upside down -
My pen went...

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Categories: amuck, fun, poetry, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Shape of Our Kindled Past
You promised me anticipation
Of a fantasy future upon introduction
Happily ever after, you offered
But don't ask questions until info conferred.

Tentative and with inward questions afire
But with...

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Categories: amuck, love, recovery from..., uplifting,
Form: Prose Poetry
Jack and Jill Underabridge
Jack was oh so lean and lanky
Jill was all for hanky panky
But things went amuck
When Jack's zipper stuck
In a pinch, she found him cranky!...

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Categories: amuck, lust,
Form: Limerick
My Pickup Truck
(song lyrics)
Verse 1:
Now I can’t go fishin’, ‘cuz ya’ sold my rod and reel
Can’t go snow-racin’, ‘cuz ya’ sold my snowmobile
And I got flaws -...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amuck, anger, conflict, fun, funny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Flying Saucer Abduction
It was a dark and moonless night. The lights were out. The TV low.
My hubby and I were relaxed, cuddled close, as the TV set...

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Categories: amuck, adventure, fantasy, funny, halloween,
Form: Light Verse
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the...

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Categories: amuck, assonance, extended metaphor, language,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs