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Best Backfired Poems

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Backfired Back 1
Back at the back, 
she was not, 
hot.
Good a lot, 
loved the most.

Bus station,
off at the station.
Lost.
'My only station,
is she lost?

Bush sided gravel road, 
to...

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Categories: backfired, africa, beauty, best friend,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Chemistry Session Backfired
Shall I relay a sidesplitting hoot from my “care-free” on campus fun phase?
It entails a laboratory session involving three mystic world colossal oafs.
 One had...

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Categories: backfired, art, character, color, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Stepping Out of Time
Stepping out of time

I tried to make you jealous
As it slowly broke my heart
Every time the music played
it tore my soul apart

As I walked in...

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Categories: backfired, angst, body, dance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Snake
There once was a couple, called Adam and Eve
Who a little joke they did conceive
They told all,  that as they walked
They met a snake...

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© Ken Duddle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backfired, funny, mythology, satire,
Form: Limerick
Iq of a Grape
From prison he tried to escape
But, had the IQ of a grape
… His rocket (mis-wired)
… Quickly backfired
Now he’s all over the landscape...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backfired, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Viola Fuller 1879 -1909
Viola Fuller

1879 – 1909

For it is written in solemn Chinese ideography,
That two women under one roof spells trouble.
For indeed my life found trouble
And death quite...

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Categories: backfired, death, life,
Form: Epitaph
Retired Ram
There once was a ram who retired,
who really was terribly tired.
Having serviced the lot,
he should have have been shot.
But the gun thankfully backfired....

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Categories: backfired, animal, retirement, sad love,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Warrior
“Warrior” 

When the Argonauts, came across 
the abandoned Starship, they 
found within the wrecked 
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message. 
It took several attempts...

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Categories: backfired, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Kind and Gentle
Kindheartedness to me is when someone puts their
own emotions and well being aside to help someone else.
It takes a very strong person to do so.I...

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Categories: backfired, forgiveness, sorryme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Halloween Story
One dark and dreary night many, many moons ago
myself and a friend coming home from the local disco
no names mentioned smiling . . .
and in...

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Categories: backfired, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of Material and Maternal Affiliations

Special relationships are developed and strengthened over the years;
And those relationships reveal an obligation to fulfil when wisdom begins to knock during the tweens;
Oh what...

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Categories: backfired, daughter, day, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Boy Who Lived
Where magic thrives in peace, Yet no human ever beholds
Of witches, wizards, wands, it is, A miraculous story that unfolds. 

He who mustn't be named,...

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Categories: backfired, courage, fantasy, magic, power,
Form: Narrative
How Hard Could It Be Part 1
How hard could it be to take my first step?

“Come to mommy, you can do it.”

“Oh you're home. Hon, look at him go.”

As I take...

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Categories: backfired, anger, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Halloween Story
One dark and dreary night many, many moons ago
myself and a friend coming home from the local disco
no names mentioned smiling . . .
and in...

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Categories: backfired, halloween, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On a Happy Blessed Day
In the evening of this beautiful sunshine day
I took a cooling-off walk through the park.
There I saw buoyant ducks and little ducklings
Watching a bullfrog sitting...

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Categories: backfired, allegory, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry

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