Best Backfiring Poems

Me good old mate Henry Hawkins
is prankster intent through and through.
He’ll play those silly practical jokes
on the likes of both me and on you.
But I...

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Like sparks trailing
from a million, billion fireflies,
a single thought limns a trillion suns.

From the first small bonfire
flickering across four million years,
whose light imprints itself
upon the...

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Free wheeling down the hill
chuck-a-bang out of fuel
referring quickly to my map
a gas pump is what I need.

Right at the bottom of the hill
appears a...

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Unopposed Oxymoron

This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission

Serious...

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A ghost began whispering inside the soul's echo 
there one Trojan horse enters defeated 
spiritually the battle ground stands firmly fixed 
against those whom denounce...

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You see, you see I’m captured within my pain I’m 13
13 only 13
13 years old when my soul died
13, eight months later when my spirit...

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Part One

                 Still the din dashes about in his...

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Memories
 become sand full of hourglasses. 
One thousand snowflakes are one thousand dead cats in the Hudson River.
 Memories hurt. 
They are Michael Schofield broken...

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A quiet morning_
broken by rebounding sounds
Exhaust backfiring....

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The squeaky wheel of a shopping cart
caught me before the morning dew
a tattered figure pushing the limits of both
collecting his pot of gold called aluminum

Gene...

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He does not answer when I speak,
     the severed head in the picnic basket,
nor do the swarming flies on the muslin...

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Sadness

turns into madness 
people explode in 
Movie Theaters;
People explode on roads; 
People have road rage 
on this road called life."
Say it soft shhh hush 
CAN...

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Destined to be a failed success...a successed fail...yes, I made up a bizarre name with a matching term to success...I'm clutter butter (margarine) when I...

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What once was true love, has now become vengeance,
 we love each other better from a distance. 
Pride married Foolish, they begot Vanity,
 A sorceress...

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I didn't mean to I swear
It was an accident no doubt 
That Halloween night
We both went out

It was supposed to be fun
And cause a terrible...

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