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Best Castigating Poems

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Premium Member It Is a Sin
It is a sin
for Gregory to be a miser
even to himself
accumulating infinite fortune
with a half-bedroom to show for it

It is a sin
for miss Zane to...

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Categories: castigating, inspirational, life, pain, people,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member This Calming Sea
THIS CALMING SEA

I sit here in the darkness at a window
that mirrors my wild mane, unruly me
Imagine how in time this house will grow
around me,...

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Categories: castigating, abuse, anxiety, bird, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Lincolns Lesson Learned
Hard driven by the embarrassment,
                    ...

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Categories: castigating, america, beautiful, blessing, community,
Form: I do not know?
Bird Gone Cold
How bad I feel when the glass fell? 
Accompanying my chattering heart is the loud clatter
Piercing through my heart is your cold silence
Reasons for which...

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Categories: castigating, allegory, allusion,
Form: Ballad
Silence Is Deafening
Three days late,
and a dollar of truth short
No condemnation of neo-Nazi hate,
no negative KKK report
Only tweet silence was heard ... 
didn’t hear a peep, not...

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Categories: castigating, allusion, dark, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Filthy, Stinking Money
Stinking, dirty money
Foul, festering money
Putrid, gassy money
Rotten, disgusting money
Oppressing, cruel money
Castigating, merciless money
Admonishing, finger-wagging money
Subjugating, stone-faced money


Aah, money…
That your kiss is so sweet,
Your embrace so...

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Categories: castigating, on work and working,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Dance Poetic Repeated
THE DANCE POETIC (just a play with words, acrostic variation)

    T     tantalizing, titillating theater, transpires
   ...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, dance, poetry, word play,
Form: Acrostic
A You Are Adorable
A You Are Adorable

A you are always adorable
B you have become affordable
C you could be incredible
D Don't eat is uneatable
E Ended up saying it eloquent
F...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, humorous,
Form: Limerick
On Ps Preaching
There is a place for the poetic preacher,
even in this forum---one can so feature
a castigating word, narrow-minded screed,
up to each person to decide what they...

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, bullying, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Quangos
So many of them abound
They make for a burdensome crown
Worn by a government needing to be overthrown
Is it time to kick all these bureaucrats
Out of...

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Categories: castigating, political,
Form: Free verse
Trump Cucaracha Cockaraca
Trump Cucaracha Cockaraca 

All of Trump's elegance started to erupt
Talking about how everyone is corrupt
He clumsily choses to be celebrating
And adversaries constantly castigating.

He slipped all...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Couplet
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023
Inspection took place February 17th, 2023...

At 1330 hours (indicated
courtesy notification slipped under door
less than twenty four hours)
hence foretold ill fate
by property (crooks and quade) management
the...

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Categories: castigating, adventure, america, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
First Amendment In Jeopardy
Lifeblood of democracy hemorrhaging
ousting the "FAKE" president only recourse
to staunch impending grim demise,
since forefathers drafted
United States Constitution
ratified more'n two centuries ago

hoi polloi must take to...

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Categories: castigating, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ode
Redemption Lost and Silenced Courtesy of Trump 1 Part A
Jabbering Ignominious Hypocrite Gabbles - against the backdrop of gross unbridled viscous wracking zealotry bruiting extinguishing inherent national trust...  

Poetic Introduction:

I wax and wane...

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Categories: castigating, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon Somber Gallows Stands the Condemned
Upon Somber Gallows Stands The Condemned


Upon somber gallows stands the condemned,
anxious crowd slobbering for his demise.
Preacher and faithful begin bible hymn
concerning fools not clever, swift...

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Categories: castigating, dark, death, fear, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs