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Best At Wits End Poems


Rattle the Chain
...
Ta'likra
was a most stubborn slave
He loved to rattle the chain
It was a sound of pure defiance
that echoed across the lush plantation terrain

Son of Antuk
had a pygmy burning bush spiri......

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Categories: at wits end, america, anger, black african
Form: Epic
Snoring Disaster
...When Cyris snored it shook the house piers,
Reducing his wife to constant tears,
At wits end she put a peg on his nose
To stop where the emanating air noise grows,
But unfortunately it blew off b......

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Categories: at wits end, humorous,
Form: Limerick
My Friend
...WHEN OTHERS THINK 
EXAGGERATION, YOU SEE ITS 
MY IMAGINATION.
INSTEAD OF SUPPORT, i GOT 
SEPERATION, YOU STEPPED UP 
INTO MY DESPERATION.
AS MY SOUL WRITHED IN 
HURT AND PAIN, YOU BEAMED 
SUN......

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Categories: at wits end, friendship
Form: Rhyme

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Personality Structure
...Yoo Hoo! Type A or B Personality
Beauteous - the brain-  Imagine that
Reflections of your intelligence
Per se - or indeed is it lack of
In my eyes - I see the ID
Hey - beauty in the eyes of the behol......

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© Stacey Law  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: at wits end, psychological,
Form: Light Verse
Partiality
...I'm really feeling sad for folks
they're almost at wits end
Don't seem to care if Cops get shot
(that's those you won't defend)

Notice you aren't yelling loud
for christians, (just the rest)
......

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: at wits end, america, betrayal, conflict, environment,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cul-De-Sac
...“Oh weary hermit, etch these words in stone ~
God is within, we never walk alone”
~ quote by poet


Dear God, give us our joy back;
our life’s reached a cul-de-sac,
with heart caug......

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Categories: at wits end, faith, god, heart, hope,
Form: Jueju



Onerous Ordeal
...(strike while the iron's hot, else...
up prize cold hard steel Goldfinger
rewind: the following case in point).

Believe me you (stranger out there
along the information super highway),
perhaps......

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Categories: at wits end, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Merry Christmas
...The church bells tolled
In the steeple,
Loud and shrill,
'Midst the avalanche of people;
The choir on the corner
Sang of angels, babes, and sugar plums
While shoppers, at wits end,
Swore that ......

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Categories: at wits end, celebration, december,
Form: Rhyme
Spider's Web
...So here I am again
in redundancy I'll say hello
living life behind this screen
dreaming of a world most obscene

I wait, eager for response
Clicking refresh once more
My world inside a spider's web
i......

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Categories: at wits end, angst, art, computer-internet, confusion,
Form:
Lonely
...Lonely, empty, void and feeling blue,
Like I just don't know what to do.
I have a large family, I've got many friends,
Yet it seems just like I am at wits end.

I am seeking and searching for tr......

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Categories: at wits end, emotions, inspirational, lonely, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier

Tell tale indelible woe y'all
privy to learn yours truly harbors
traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades si......

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Categories: at wits end, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a John Denver Song
...
I tried to write a song like John Denver would have done
Thought the way to do it was to emulate each one
Went to Colorado for a Rocky Mountain High
Found heaven near Shenandoah, but inspiration......

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Categories: at wits end, inspiration, introspection, song,
Form: Lyric
So Close and Still So Far
...Locating door D-75
Of a large colony on a drive,
At last close, ah D-74!
I must be right at destiny’s door.
But the next turns out B-68!!
What, lost at the very Pearly Gate?
So I felt midway th......

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Categories: at wits end, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Midnight Tauntings.
...That beast that prowls and lurks
Always on the doors opposite side
Primeval and fetid scents rising
For it is here evil resides
Locked within these crumbling walls
Or so I have come to believe
......

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Categories: at wits end, angst, confusion, introspection, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades since
complex edifice erected to force tall
permanently leaving me unmoored,
marooned, and furloughed ready fo......

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Categories: at wits end, analogy, discrimination, heartbreak, image,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry