Best Defrocked Poems


Welcome, Pilgrim!

...Tom Turkey has been defrocked
Cleaned, basted and stuffed
Surrounded by pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Tart cranberry sauce
Come, Pilgrim,
Eat!......

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Categories: defrocked, food
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Member Dandy's Cuckoo Clock

...On a spotty, sprinkled day, at the Plott's house on the block,
A squatty Uncle Scotty had sent a polka dotted,  cuckoo clock!
The family said "That's handy!", and found a spot upon a shelf
For the......

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Categories: defrocked, childrenhouse, house,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Fraser's Mosaic

...FRASER'S MOSAIC


Sometimes in life, I tripped. I slipped
  on Calvary hill where darkness ends.
Defrocked by the dark, I woke up in a dream, 
  a fresh start, my beloved I have!......

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Categories: defrocked, desire, imagery, life,
Form: Verse

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Premium Member Corrupt Bishops

...The Pillars of humanity
felled by little boys tears
Irish clover
not so lucky for boys in white
defrocked
a new generation of holy men
the cycle of sodomy
sickens the soul
yet the masses
on ......

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Categories: defrocked, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Protection of Their Own

...Alma Mater in denial
Beckons proof of terrible sin
Congregation gather to witness
Defrocked disciple
Endeavours to catch her and hear 
Flagellate in fear of the hounding.

Girl on a high, this......

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Categories: defrocked, confusion,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium Member The Lea of Love

...Leafy meadow
He lies her down
Defrocked from
Her summer gown
 
Bodies bronzing
In the blazing sun
Natures wanting
Scents will run
 
Exploration
As their hands caress
He gentles down
On h......

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Categories: defrocked, love, nature
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Upon Waking

...


“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like d......

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Categories: defrocked, gothic, muse, poets,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Music Is My First Love

...The concept of a top ten, is a wonderful choice
For Joe Flach's contest, your words become your voice
Typically for me, music comes first
Below are my ten, please read and rejoice

In alphabetic......

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Categories: defrocked, inspirational, music, on writing
Form: Couplet

Checkmate

...
Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth fo......

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Categories: defrocked, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor,
Form: Alliteration

Go Bang

...
“Go BANG!”



"Is that a gun in your pocket?"
She said

"Careful, I recommend
you need to be undercover, 
and soon, call it Espionage M
You’re......

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Categories: defrocked, fantasy, humorous, word play,
Form: Free verse

Breath, In Blue

...
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8







"Breath, in Blue"



Blueb......

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Categories: defrocked, animal, bird, earth, fish,
Form: Free verse

Birthing the Vortex

...
"Birthing the Vortex"



the complexities of a myth
borne from the birth 
of amorphous seat 
in dark matter brain

storming dimensions never se......

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Categories: defrocked, desire, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism

Overbooked

...A man of cloth spent hours reading the Bible
of the book's thoughts he was minus a rival.
He knew chapter and verse,
was never heard to curse.
Alas, boredom defrocked his survival.......

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Categories: defrocked, bible,
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Sorcerer

...Monseigneur Reygus Hameltus—defrocked priest and sorcerer of the black 
arts; epiphany of evil and master of debauchery.
He looks among his minions with a grim bearded countenance
and piercing bea......

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Categories: defrocked, allegory, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Our Lost Women

...The oldest trade in historical times
In many places it still is a crime
     Defrocked from their gowns
     Some even took it lying down 
It's the sad ladder of life some climb






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Categories: defrocked, life, sad
Form: Limerick
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