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Best Bastard Poems

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Premium Member Bastard
"All Children Are Beautiful"

His heart of white,   deep shallow wells,   -yet beautiful
He smirks with a grin,  an ego that won't...

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Categories: bastard, art, beauty, betrayal, child,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bastard, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme
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: bastard, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme
Twins Revenge
A. W. Nutter

Fog from my breath in the way
Temporarily impeding my vision
A small lamp, illuminates my prey
Unaware, of his impending execution

Rons wife, conveniently out of...

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Categories: bastard, imaginationhusband, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And Now For Something Completely Different
The sun rose in the west today – or, perhaps, I was standing on my head?
I went to a funeral for my very best friend,...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bastard, mystery, funeral, old, funeral,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Good Cry
A final ugly bellow followed by the front door's slam and then. . .
the natural and sweet respite of silence. 
She remained where he'd left...

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Categories: bastard,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Night Santa Left Me In Stitches
Twas the night before Christmas and I was a gasp
    at the rumors that filled me with an odious fright.
For Santa Claus...

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Categories: bastard, christmas, funny, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woods
What were you doing, alone in the woods, my John,
What were you doing out at dawn?
Why it hasn't rained for ages now,
So many failed crops,...

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Categories: bastard, abuse, anger,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Desperate Hope
Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon? 
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed...

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Categories: bastard, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member age is over-rated
Age is over rated
I went from cute and cuddly
To terribly two
In the flip of a calendar
From being inquisitive
To being nosey
From pre-teen
To A TEENAGER
Meandered
Through the military
Into...

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Categories: bastard, age, grandfather, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Circe Effect - Part 1
"The Circe Effect" (Part 1)


Circe, Goddess of magic, nymph, witch, bold enchantress
daughter of Helios, Sun God, her father, can you imagine? ... 
let me paint...

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Categories: bastard, adventure, betrayal, mythology, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Before and After
Bust to the extreme 
And collide with your foes 
Be ruthless and heartless
When smash on them hoes 
Leave no stone unturned 
When your searching for...

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Categories: bastard, anger, conflict, crazy, hip
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Unshakable Identity
hospitality, peace and mutual respect; we’ve chosen
because the key to our prosperity is love, unity and cooperation
settlers now on the cheat as our true identity...

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Categories: bastard, abuse, africa, community, conflict,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Identity Crisis
It's complicated
The way she looks at him
Not the way it used to be
When he had held her gaze
She had expected to love him all of...

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Categories: bastard, break up, conflict, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Lord of the Flies
Harassing me for days now
Landing on my eyelid
Nosing up my nostril
Tickling my ankles
and every other exposed body part
Little bastard...

Fly-Swatter? Jack be nimble, Jack...
Folded bath towel?...

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Categories: bastard, angst, insect,
Form: Light Verse

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