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Best Contemptible Poems

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The Folly of the Fight
The folly of the fight


These four walls; such contemptible and wretched creatures-
mock me, taunt me, deride me as weak and worthless.

I am shackled to the...

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Categories: contemptible, body, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Envy
I have come here to confess my deepest shame
Your wit, I admit, I more than admire-
It wakes me, it shakes, me, sets my brain on...

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Categories: contemptible, longing, poems, vanity, writing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member I That Because of Your Attack, Will Never Yield
I That Because Of Your Attack, Will Never Yield.

No single tear given, nor I gift you an open field
so yes, make merry with your hatred...

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Categories: contemptible, character, conflict, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages
I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to...

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Categories: contemptible, depression, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unholy Thunderous Domination
Destroy thine own brother in abject apathy
taking up arms 'midst conquering expectancy,
invoking howls of contemptible thunder 
neath skies' transparency beyond trepidation,
battles' plundering captures naught of...

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Categories: contemptible, allegory, conflict, corruption, fire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Only Fools Think So
Pray for us sinners,
for indeed sinners we are.
In love with our immorality,
wallowing in our faults,
repeating our transgressions.
 
The world applauds us 
in complete agreement
with our...

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Categories: contemptible, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Battle Between Body and Spirit
The battle between body and spirit

Housed as I am,
in this earthenware vessel
I witness,
the raging between body and spirit.
My mood- sullen and morose,
a telling sign-
a flashing...

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Categories: contemptible, evil, faith, health, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Essence of Love
My veil falls to my feet
I am at my most vulnerable
yet I lose my shyness easily in front of you
as your eyes acceptingly savor me.
I...

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Categories: contemptible, death, freedom, goodbye, i
Form: Free verse
This Bereft Poet
I heard echoes of scurrilous snarls, 
from my conscience as it spoke
contemptible remarks aimed at me.
What shame those words delivered.

"Fatuous one, why does your hand...

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Categories: contemptible, poetry, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soothing Dream, Bathe Me In Her Light
(1.)
Soothing Dream, Bathe Me In Her Light
 
Of lonely night and vivid dread
sad supper and large empty bed
denying wind, sets soul to stir
romantic memories of...

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Categories: contemptible, appreciation, art, creation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
American Nero
American Nero,
showering utter disdain — 
Denigration downpour on pleb citizens
begging for pandemic crumbs
As the pestilent fire rages around 
your virally tainted kingdom

Ghastly gladly,
you keep on...

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Categories: contemptible, allegory, character, fire, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mind Afflicted
Oh my ignoble mind
why must you be so
rueful-this sorrowful pity
abject-I am not contemptible
brooding-unkind contemplations.

Oh my heinous conscience
dare not
mock me-oh the cruelty
taunt me-cuts so deep
bleed me-I...

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Categories: contemptible, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Messenger
"The Messenger"

Love is rich with 
venom and honey. 

there was a female ...

snake, 
it watched 
with green-eyed 
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest

the dove, 
was white as...

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Categories: contemptible, dark, journey, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Intellectual Peer Pressure
Intellectual peer pressure

The faces change from smiles to sneers
from effusive praises to contemptible jeers.
A man whose wisdom has been seen for years
now forced to face...

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Categories: contemptible, bullying, community, conflict, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member End of Songs
Another dead statistic dawns today, 
Contempt dissolved foundations love astray. 
   Malicious memories of miscarried mirth, 
   Repetitious resolving rends rebirth....

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Categories: contemptible, break up, change, conflict,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs