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Best Debunked Poems

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Premium Member Cliches Debunked
To 'ride on somebody's coat tails'
Is the most dangerous thing you can do
'Keep a stiff upper lip' is another cliché
Mine's not stiff, how about you?

'One...

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Categories: debunked, happiness, humorous, old, bird,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Agnosticism Debunked
Spoken
   ex cathedra
      from a group so astute,
"For sure
   and for certain
    ...

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Categories: debunked, philosophy, religious, wisdom,
Form: Grook
Premium Member Heaven For Dummies, Yes, You - Hell Debunked
Heaven for Dummies, Yes, You! (Hell Debunked)

You may think I’m all ‘Ego’ or ‘Certified Loon,’
but I pray you’ll consider this humble attempt
to move riffraff from...

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Categories: debunked, faith,
Form: Rhyme
No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration
There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the...

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Categories: debunked, parody,
Form: Limerick
Strange Things Found In the Lost Tomb of Zarathustra
It was never exactly pinpointed
for only the African Crowned Eagles knew of the twisting paths
to its misplaced place.

In that crystalline chamber, upon that gold dusted...

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Categories: debunked, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eternity Is But a Moment
It was a late springtime day, and the bluebirds all were singing,
Outside the classroom window, while the bells all were ringing.

I had a lucky window...

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Categories: debunked, age, education, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Joan, Maiden of Orleans

She was born, Jeanne d'Arc and nick-named, The Maiden of Orleans;
             This is...

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Categories: debunked, cute, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Strict Machine
"The Strict Machine"




Take a note 
pick up your sharpened quill
tap dance your screen
your mind like 
a Magpie's beak 
a Silent Epiphany
One, 
Two and
Three
a Silent Jackhammer...

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Categories: debunked, freedom, psychological, symbolism, truth,
Form: Free verse
Joan of Arc For Contest
The Cross-dressing of Joan d`Arc

Cross-dressing of Joan was perhaps heavily based,
On the bible’s principle in Deuteronomy 22:5 and viewed 
as a Rebellion against God. 
Tis...

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Categories: debunked, blessing, christian, dedication, hero,
Form: Narrative
Rearview Mirror
Rear view mirror

Objects, objectively put, are  closer  
than they  appear. But it doesn’t say it all. 
With the fair signs that spewed...

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Categories: debunked, life,
Form: Free verse
Just Random
Though I am a blank but still, 
I can smell their shallowness from twill,
How debunked shame and superficiality in them, 
But no cuss, ahem…
Because it...

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© Hina Nasir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: debunked, absence, abuse, faith, people,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Junk
" One man's junk is another man's treasure" - author unknown

To some, old collectables and antiques are nothing but junk,
even heirlooms kept safely in their...

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Categories: debunked, beauty, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hippocampus
Hippocampus

What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain

	Neurons transmitted untainted joy 

A night dive at Stackpole Quay in...

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Categories: debunked, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dry County
The 18th Amendment on Prohibition was debunked in 1933 and replaced by the 21st Amendment that legalized the sale of liquor throughout the country. However,...

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Categories: debunked, addiction, america, corruption, desire,
Form: Free verse
Sore To My Conclusion
Mesmerizing. Fierce fully aggravating.
Sinfully off this guard
Narrowly beyond tracks
Heart-aching, credit-crunching.
Stomach-turning, memory-converging.
Temperance.
Control. Mind-bugging soul 
Cracks, strokes, tears, burns
The butterflies churn
Nerve-racking. Emotion-bedazzling
Ambience comely.

Done. No more.
Appetite so ended
Thoughts...

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Categories: debunked, depression
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things