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
Fraser's MosaicFRASER'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
Dandy's Cuckoo ClockOn 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
Corrupt BishopsThe 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
Protection of Their OwnAlma 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
The Lea of LoveLeafy 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
Music Is My First LoveThe 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
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
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"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
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
OverbookedA 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
The SorcererMonseigneur 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
Our Lost WomenThe 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
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