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Best Cloven Hoof Poems

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Premium Member The Fat Lady Has Sung
O harlot of colored scarlet hath divided the spoils
The wealthy, well oiled, prophesy uncertainty 
Thee measures of  barley spoil not the oil or wine
heavenly...

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Categories: cloven hoof, angst, faith,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Terror From New Jersey's Devil
New Jersey was still a king’s colony
in the 1700s when Mrs. Leeds
awaited the birth of child thirteen.

In pain during labor she cried a curse!
The Quaker...

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Categories: cloven hoof, fear, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sipping Cider With My Sweetheart
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Categories: cloven hoof, blessing, celebration, christmas, eve,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gods Holy War
Oh! Sleep come claim me for thine own
My mind it wanders far and deep
To distant lands and shores unknown
Far beyond this castle keep

To fight for...

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Categories: cloven hoof, abuse, history, judgement, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Fortune Cookie Maxim Minimizes Apple Macbook Pro Update Process
agonizingly dutifully didst wait
to distract anticipatory anxiety,
(analogous to an expectant father)
while protracted procedure promised
nothing short of a millennium

whereby echoing thru the corridors of time
olly olly...

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Categories: cloven hoof, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry



My Jouncing Gait During Boyhood
(an All Poetry feat to walk in 
the poetic feet of Robert Frost)

Bucolic New England, circa
Early twentieth century New England
awash with dynamic harmonic leisureliness,
when much...

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Categories: cloven hoof, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Ancient Evil
Sponsor	FRANK H.
Contest Name	WHAT ANNOYS YOU

Ancient evil never leaves us,
returning constant as the rain,
slave of the 2 horned demon,
using people,weak of brain,

causing pain for the many,
pitiless,...

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Categories: cloven hoof, adventure, evil,
Form: Ballad
Read the Signs
The cloven hoof prints
Should have been read 
Way before I signed
My contract with the dead.

My lawyer did not see
And nor did I
The fine printed sign
Of...

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Categories: cloven hoof, dark, imagery, murder,
Form: Quatrain
Spring-Heeled Jack
SPRING-HEELED JACK 

Spring-Heeled Jack was a very odd chap, 
And a very odd chap was he. 
His eyes glowed like a pyre, 
He wore batman’s...

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Categories: cloven hoof, mystery, nursery rhyme, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Mortal Coil
Mortal  coil to shuffle off,
up to the lord, almighty God,
have that bridge, sometime to cross,
ankle deep in mortal dross,
never mind the bloody cost,
till the...

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Categories: cloven hoof, adventure, parody, planet,
Form: Rhyme
The Butcher's Mark
I saw you in a dream with wicked eyes;
I saw you perched atop the eaves with a cloven hoof.
You took flight but left a rancid...

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Categories: cloven hoof, passion,
Form: Free verse
A Trampled Life
Do you hear your bones break, feel your mangled heart?
The desire for pain has ripped you apart
Your soul has been tortured, bludgeoned and maimed
Those dark...

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Categories: cloven hoof, confusion, death, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hiking Bramble Bog
 I took a hike in Bramble Bog,
and reveled in the croaking frogs;
the singing crickets and river song,
were lovely, so I whistled along.

By the river,...

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Categories: cloven hoof, cute, fairy, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Incenses
When, from the spleen of creation's glory, smoke rose 
A dust cloud of cloven hoof stampeding, 
Rolled in salutation across the panorama 
Of the bodies...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cloven hoof, philosophy, social,
Form: Rhyme
The Singing Elf
Oh, Lord, have mercy for I am undone
I'm lost and lonely please send me someone
I turn and I wander and cannot believe
I've lost my bearings...

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Categories: cloven hoof, christmas,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things