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Best Cockroach Poems

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Premium Member Wolves Among the Lambs
There are those engaged in pedagogy
To facilitate the drip... drip... drip
Of poison to accost a child's ear.
Maneuvering with glee and juicy decadence...
Sequestering all they say...

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Categories: cockroach, anger, child abuse, education,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Portal - part 2
NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense

As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cockroach, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Adebimpe, the African Beauty
ADEBIMPE

Going through this life at a frenzied pace
It's clear why we call it human race
I saw a piece of carefully gathered stardust
A desire for every...

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Categories: cockroach, africa, character, eulogy,
Form: Ode
Harlem Blues
It's night now in harlem, time to explore
Snakes are diurnal, rats love their nocturnal
Life, the subway is a swinging door.
A cockroach crawls before it falls
Catalectic...

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Categories: cockroach, black-african amerchildren, fairy, me,
Form: Free verse
A Woman
A woman is the greatest of all contradiction;
She is an angel in truth and a demon in fiction.

She is afraid of a cockroach, she will...

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Categories: cockroach, woman,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Reaper's Return
The cockroach crawling inside a satin evil darkness
as one clown weeps into silken soft sensual feelings, 
as a blinking starlight beacon awaits a tense message
of...

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Categories: cockroach, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Skeleton
The skeleton

On the day you were born
I have bestowed upon you
We will spend together a lifetime
Without me inside you compare to glue
Like the cockroach who...

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Categories: cockroach, adventure, angel, deep, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is Poetry
I thought poetry is
-name of Mesopotamia which was the first civilization to emerge in human history
-ancient cave peoples surviving life struggle 

I thought poetry is
-an...

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Categories: cockroach, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Late Night Treat
It is already late while I see
Those kids still play hide and seek
Dance around that pole which lacked of paint
The cockroach underneath tried to escape,...

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Categories: cockroach, inspiration, joy, night,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Laugh With Jack
Every planet in our solar system
Rotates in an anticlockwise direction
Except Venus which insists on being different
Always one has to be the exception

About 75 acres of...

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Categories: cockroach, humorous, planet,
Form: Quatrain
The End of the World
The end of the world as we know it -
The cockroach, the virus, the poet....

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Categories: cockroach, surreal,
Form: Couplet
Never Say Die
Watching a movie ('Walking Tall')
I spied a cockroach on my wall,
crawling in and out of sight,
the proud homeowner's sorry plight.
Now I see him, now I...

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Categories: cockroach, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Never Say Die!
Watching a movie ('Walking Tall')
I spied a cockroach on my wall,
crawling in and out of sight,
the proud homeowner's sorry plight.
Now I see him, now I...

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Categories: cockroach, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip...

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Categories: cockroach, bible, bird, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five


Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings...

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Categories: cockroach, humanity, men,
Form: Lay

Book: Reflection on the Important Things