Best Awful Poems

In a small café, customers stream through the door. I jot down orders that pile up as I wonder what’s happening in the back kitchen. The patrons are looking more and  more displeased. I scurry table to table filling glasses running endlessly dry and...

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At the station Paton stares at me from the train bound for Johannesburg
He leaves a note to remember to mop up where the roof leaks
This is after the British take Achebe and I's gods away
before sitting back down on their buttocks
When I take their son...

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The Scarecrow, he was born without a brain 
And the Tinman got all rusted from the rain 
Because the Tinman had no heart 
And because the Scarecrow was smart 
Instead of walking to Oz, he'd taken a train...

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does the process of elimination ~ make much sense by inclusion 

or is mans reasoning clearly rearranged ~ by woman’s exclusion 

By
David Kavanagh 

hms...

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The narrow lane led to an awful place
With its own page in the annals of history,
Where once was committed a murder most foul
It’s perpetrator to date still a mystery

Thirteen, Millers Court in Spitalfields
Was the abode of one Mary Jane Kelly
Where one November morn, eighteen eighty...

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She always sang a bit way off-key,
She couldn’t hit a single note;
She mixed up words from different songs,
Some getting caught down in her throat;
She sang songs from our favorite bands
That I didn’t recognize;
When she told me the title of the song she sang
I tried to...

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Earlier this week I went to the beach at night, the stars
were bright, the moon was light, and so was my mood.
I folded my clothes next to my shoes and stepped slow
and tentatively into the water. Immediately a huge wave
appeared out of nowhere, swallowed me...

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Such an intelligent mind,
But enslaved by a treacherous and foolish mouth
Leading his brilliance into no significance...

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I believed in you. 
You didn’t.
I tried to help you.
You didn’t.
I loved you.
You didn’t.
I felt for you.
You didn’t.

         Trapped in a cell with nowhere to run,
      your fear pricked panic into your...

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The phone just rang; the wrenching news has caught me unaware.
My heart is numb, my tongue is dumb; I stumble down the stair.
I cannot comprehend the words Sorrow just spoke to me;
will someone pause to share my awful weight of agony?

How can a heart bear...

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Abigail Rhine such an abomination of her time, the fair skinned false
princess with such the hunger for lust and power from which she ruled
every watch must read her hour. Shrouded in the finest of fines eternity
was destiny and to obey was essential or else detrimental....

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I hope you'll find that someone 
who can make you smile
   that someone
who can give you all the time you want
   someone
who can make you feel complete
   that someone
who won't make you feel like sh!t.


   I hope...

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Many an interpretations have I known of tales,
Of darkness versus light, gruesome versus delightful.
A time bedtime stories were Mamma’s pride.
Fortunate we were to look upon her face, all lightened.

Came an awful nanny, turned us to mice frightened.
Withered oval face, grim and opaque with intentions hidden;
Was...

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i cant write poetry             mumble some nonsense
i cant write poetry             random words seem to fit
i cant write poetry   ...

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Awful Offal


O' inspiration, you wretched little whore
Fickle as a feral cat
Your siren song, a wailing howl
Poison arid fellows, foul
Luring lesser louts to shore

Surviving yet another spat
Rising higher than before
No time to waste on lowly life
Will not taste their bitter strife
For the falcon feeds off of...

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