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Botched Artwork Saves Town
Botched Artwork Saves Town

Sometime last year, in late August 2015, something unusual went viral..
It was an ancient picture on the wall, vastly unlike its original...

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Categories: botched, appreciation, beauty, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Soozie the Floozie
Soozie was angry with her boyfriend, Bob
Tried dismembering him but botched the job
Disgruntled with all men
She vowed to try again
When she found him in bed...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: botched, woman,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Paying a High Price
Russia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken...

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Categories: botched, conflict, murder, prison, war,
Form: Rhyme
Isn'T She Cute
barely legal yet she walks with a cats strut
                ...

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Categories: botched, depression
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Act of Terrorism
The attack on a shopping centre, is a crime against humanity
And yet we to continue to ignore, this ongoing brutality
You must always show a strong...

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Categories: botched, death, murder, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Book of Brenda Bates
Her name was Brenda Bates, a novelist
bewitched from burrowing inside her book
of fiction 'bout a boatman, Bo Barist,
the character who botched her life...betook
control of him...

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Categories: botched, confusion, emotions, writing,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member If Only Dreams Came True
Putins botched invasion is going south 
I think NATO should give him a way out 
Chocolates stuffed with TNT
And then set off remotely 
As he...

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Categories: botched, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Zombie Shark
On 11-28-2015, Hurricane Ben, slammed off the shores of Sydney Australia,
Its tremendous waves beaching the second largest shark in the world today,
Colossus, killing him on...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: botched, adventure, fantasy, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jails Parody
Send the convicts to the jails -
Local jails! -
What a world of confinement as their court case fails
Hear the jingle, jingle, jingle
Of the handcuffs as...

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Categories: botched, parody, world,
Form: Rhyme
Too Much Pride
When someone doesn't know you like you thought they did
All they do is act out like a kid

Truth starts to decease
Lies spread like disease

No matter...

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© Lynn Dolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: botched, betrayal, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram
The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: botched, devotion, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Murder In the Operating Room
I'm a doctor who murdered a man in the OR.
I lost my medical license and I'm behind bars.
The bastard took a life with his gun.
The...

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Categories: botched, dark, death, father, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not the West's Problem Putin
Lithuania has told Vladimar Putin to keep out of our nation
They've been shifting freight to and from the Russian federation
Putin has said they'll take action,...

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Categories: botched, war,
Form: Rhyme
Hopeless Nomadic Part 1
Cracked beer bottles and detached baby rattles in slightly untidy, black plastic wrappers.
No garbage can nor box or bag is exempt from the burrower’s thorough...

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Categories: botched, autumn, community, corruption, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Humanity's Innuendo
Ecosystems are being strained
We stand alone as the culprit
Every night when I have prayed
I wake up and see they've botched it

In less than a year...

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Categories: botched, epic
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things