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Best Badness Poems

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Premium Member We Are Not Merely Poets
Some of us are secretive at first. We hide our poetry’s soul self, 
gently letting her peep out; sometimes regretting it immediately.
Fearful of critiques from...

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Categories: badness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badness, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Writing Is My Therapy
writing is my therapy.
she releases feelings in me nothing else releases
I do not even care if it is poetry, 
it is the feeling i seek,
she...

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Categories: badness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Inherently Good
Being human there is the stronger urge
That inborn desire towards good
Or the diversion towards badness
Our innate inborn capacity for good
Equals our divergence towards badness 

The...

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Categories: badness, faith, inspiration, inspirational, words,
Form: Blank verse
Silly Slumber
A swirling gold wind
Speckles of dust
I thrust my neck in to feel this
I am bewildered, a smothered vine
floating into the ending
but I want to fight
Want...

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© Te Indi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badness, death, time,
Form: Free verse



Protect Your Pie and Reserve Your Rod
Your rod is not for signs my brother...
Stop looking for red seas to divide...
It should be the trophy of your bride...
That other sister need not...

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Categories: badness, abortion, abuse, lust, relationship,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Perplexity
EACH THING SUPPORTED BY INCERTITUDE
MERELY SMALL OR LARGELY BIG
EACH THING AT OCCASIONS IN MULTITUDE
SILENTLY THE SADNESS DIG

THE ASSISTANCE OF BRAIN
THE THUMPING OF HEART
CAN'T STOP ITS...

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Categories: badness, passion, philosophy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I Like Muslims
One man, one bomb, packed with rusty nuts and bolts
He bides his time, picks his spot and halts
Then detonates a foyer, full of mums and...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badness, conflict, faith, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Evensong
For my sins and everything I ever did or sought to be, 
Contempt and dying to be clever in unfathomed pools of sadness, 
I plumbed...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badness, introspection, life, loss, lost
Form: Verse
Premium Member Black Labels
she reaches behind the smokescreen

of her sunken eyed curtain veils

films of tears void of translucence

stoke reminiscent ashes that trace

another blinding thick-skinned defeat

hidden by camouflage and...

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Categories: badness, courage,
Form: Free verse
I Am Both the Lord and Devil
I am he ..your lord above
I gift you life...and give you love. 
And just as easy I can take away
In deaths arriving your lifestyle decay.

But...

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© Anna Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: badness, angel, blessing, courage, creation,
Form: Blank verse
We Lost Our Souls
When did the devil collect
Every soul that's in his debt
Cursing us with evil gloominess
Darkness hatred and the doomness
That's been flooding this whole world
We need to...

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Categories: badness, anger, change, peace, world,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye Cruel World
Goodbye cruel world!
I won't miss you when you are gone.
I'm looking for a better place,
Where I feel like I belong.

Goodbye cruel world!
I'm not sorry you...

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Categories: badness, christian, encouraging, faith, goodbye,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Under Attack
Changing God's law shameful truth 
illusions of demonic forces at work 
pawns in a foolish game 
blind slaves who say they are free

Giving the synagogue...

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Categories: badness, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Beloving Dualdark Night

Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
and posthumous demise,
probably post-humorous as well,
should...

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Categories: badness, death, depression, humor, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things