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Best Badly Poems

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Premium Member That Potent Urge -Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now
I think no stimulus could be
as potent as the one to pee.
A feeling frequent and innate
is this - the urge to urinate.
It comes each day...

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Categories: badly, home,
Form: Rhyme



Flo J Thomas a Walking Angel Gone
For the rose without season is you
Light between stars shine through your soul
Ocean of kindness whispers your name
Joy resides in those beautiful eyes
Treasure trove,a friend...

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Categories: badly, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where My True Love Lives - a Ballade
Seared upon my soul for ever more
That break of dawn upon a summer morn
As I made my way along that rocky shore
Strewn with remnants from...

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Categories: badly, death, love, ocean,
Form: Ballade
The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: badly, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy Birthday, Andrea
How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badly, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Dandelions
Sustained by the frequent spring showers
Adorned by rosettes of dark green
They burst into dense yellow flowers
The florets parading their sheen.

They sway to sensations of pleasure...

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Categories: badly, flower, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dancing With the Devil
Lost between the borders of heaven and hell,
confusion led to this story, one must tell.
Surrounded by a world full of violence,
I closed my eyes and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badly, angst, introspection, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vultures Circling - Part One
I'd just checked out of a hotel in the town of Santa Fe 
Went to the store to collect supplies and went on my way
I...

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Categories: badly, america, death, girl, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Finally
Finally 

Doctor, it's been 7 months 
The MEDs aren't kicking in

My dreams are getting stronger, 
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and...

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Categories: badly, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: badly, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Maniac President's Song
(A parody of the Modern Major-General's Song from "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan.)

I am the very model of a very stable genius.
Compared...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badly, funny, humor, humorous, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Acts of Aggression
         Based on a quote from Watership Down:
"He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running."

His...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badly, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just An Old Poet, Holding On Until I Die
Just An Old Poet, Holding On Until I Die

I write verse, live in the moment and score the past
oft revealing naked truths that set some...

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Categories: badly, art, creation, happiness, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Bunyip Forest Revisited
Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where...

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Categories: badly, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil's Nightly Quest Ca
REVISED OCTOBER 16, 2019



New Jersey’s cloven-hoofed devil 
makes his way to the jetty
beneath the blanket of twinkling stars, anguish unabated 
his appetency growing stronger each...

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Categories: badly, loneliness, love,
Form: Free verse

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