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Best Delinquent Poems

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Either a Delinquent Or a Deviant
Either a Delinquent of a Deviant

Have I been a delinquent or a deviant?
What is message to me, God has sent?
Someday must go out on my...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delinquent, inspiration,
Form: Couplet



The Enmity
The Enmity
Seeking justice is the only way you knew how to protect us.
As a juvenile delinquent I was too young to recognize it.
I am always...

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Categories: delinquent, feelings, history, identity, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poetry Police # 2
Many (con)-ARTIST are drinking more than the soup
A kidnapping of the mind
Confessions/conspiracy/rounded up in groups
Interrogation on a  prowler /who's words robbed us blind
Corrupting our...

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Categories: delinquent, dedicationwords, me, poets,
Form: Free verse
I Love You, Old Man
I once had knew a man 
Who became older than a dead man 
A tired soul, he was.
Looked like he'd never seen a bed 

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Categories: delinquent, age, dad, emotions, grandchild,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heraldry of a Summer Migrant
With return to summer tree of berries red -
   he flashes ‘tween the green scene like a trinket;
     ...

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Categories: delinquent, appreciation, beauty, bird, jealousy,
Form: Rispetto



Premium Member One Waits Upon the Horizon
The purple race the tussock face
heather dwells in delinquent mist
fresh the morning waits to embrace
as the sun’s rays break to enlist.
For you are there my...

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Categories: delinquent, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Felony Money
True definition of a hood love story,
They called him Felony.
Skin was as smooth as a shot of Hennessey.
He made a lot of other men envy.
His...

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Categories: delinquent, imagination, love, poetry, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Black Molasses
"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like molten glucose 
shot into the veins
of Mother Earth...

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Categories: delinquent, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Bring It On
Eckhart Tolle says, "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."

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To this, I say, bring it on
Throw everything...

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Categories: delinquent, abuse, adventure, devotion, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Mesmerizing Mermaids
The seas softly speak with voices that talismanically tweak,
Magical maids in their mystique porpoises of their physique…
Ambient aqua-marine waving seductresses of their craving,
A splashing sylph...

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Categories: delinquent, beautiful, fish, sexy, women,
Form: Rhyme
Fallen Angel
Created by the hammer of God, angels joyfully sing before His throne
The Seraphim, angels to be awed in the first order they stand alone
I was...

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Categories: delinquent, angel, feelings, lust, sad
Form: Rhyme
Mother
She spoke with hate, and screamed at us
I wanted to hide and cry sometimes.
And after work, when she came home
She would always disturb our night.
I...

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Categories: delinquent, childhood, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
You and I
You and I
I concede 
You are virtuous 
I am delinquent 
You refrain from forbidden
I oftentimes give in
You pride on your piety 
I accept my fallibility...

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Categories: delinquent, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Of Morality
Dice, the goddess of morals, asked her mother, Themis
Why there's divorce, gambling, abortion, and alcoholism?
Why should dehumanization, like a Bloodstone, beamish?
Why should knives of nemesis...

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Categories: delinquent, evil, integrity, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Buried Treasure
If Time were of the Essence
     we'd treasure every day

   Even in senescence 
     delinquent...

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Categories: delinquent, age, irony, time,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs