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Best Defrocked Poems

Below are the all-time best Defrocked poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of defrocked poems written by PoetrySoup members


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 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, 
...

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

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Categories: defrocked, childrenhouse, house,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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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...

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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 her body, impress
...

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Categories: defrocked, love, nature
Form: Rhyme
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...

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

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Categories: defrocked, inspirational, music, on writing
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 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 so disjointed
It's exasperating
but endearing"
He...

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Categories: defrocked, fantasy, humorous, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breath, In Blue
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"Breath, in Blue"



Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath...

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Categories: defrocked, animal, bird, earth, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 seen
merely guessed, intuitive, unblessed
visage of a...

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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,...

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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...

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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
    ...

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Categories: defrocked, life, sad
Form: Limerick
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 dull background...

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

Book: Shattered Sighs