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Best Derisive Poems

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Premium Member Simple Musings From a Heterosexual Male With Unkempt Facial Hair
Every discovery started with absolutely 
     no idea of where to start...
     
    ...

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Categories: derisive, muse, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: derisive, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: derisive, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Fear of Numbers
Fear of Numbers

Fear of numbers is real
They carry adding machines on their backs
And loaded numbered guns
Divide and subtract from families and everyone
With two times the...

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Categories: derisive, conflict, education, image, judgement,
Form: Didactic
The Scatheless Soul
Unseen but ubiquitous,
Savage and surreal,
If not curated but contagious,
Annihilative and aerial,

Then lurking, now loose,
You are the silent stone sepulchre,
Tangling, tormenting; transient truce,
An asphyxiating, aggravating and...

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Categories: derisive, courage, death, endurance, hope,
Form: Alliteration



On Seeing a Painting By Picasso
On Seeing a Painting by Picasso

By Elton Camp

The museum has a portrait by Picasso on display
When I heard that, I knew had to go by...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derisive, funnychild, work, halloween, art,
Form: Verse
Mind Afflicted
Oh my ignoble mind
why must you be so
rueful-this sorrowful pity
abject-I am not contemptible
brooding-unkind contemplations.

Oh my heinous conscience
dare not
mock me-oh the cruelty
taunt me-cuts so deep
bleed me-I...

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Categories: derisive, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mocking Dance of the Dead
Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Silent One 
"Do not be...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derisive, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections - Part 1
"Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections" - Part 1

Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections
is worthy of our fervent introspection
constantly, equatiously
for SHE...

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Categories: derisive, abuse, child abuse, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven

The Final Days:  Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and...

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Categories: derisive, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nasty Habits
Sitting next to a person whose breath stinks,
is it alcohol or lack of oral hygiene...
never mind what that person thinks:
excessive drinking is not a medicine!


Waiting...

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Categories: derisive, how i feel, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Speaking To No
what do i say to No?
when i know what not to do
but i know not what to do.

when Winter dies into Spring
and i must share...

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© Sam Toil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derisive, philosophy, society,
Form: Free verse
The Wind
Soft and gentle.
Tenderly kissing
Cheeks and hair.
Vieing with the ardour
Of the noon day sun
To cool the sweated brow.
Playful,teasing,
Impudently tugging.
Breezing along rooftops,
Rattling doors and windows.
Prying into every...

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Categories: derisive, nature
Form: Personification
Facts of Life
one thing you have to learned is to let go all of the frustration learned to let it flow 
letting go is not the easy...

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Categories: derisive, conflict, confusion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Love Is a Garden
An apple a day keeps the doctor away;
But hugs are the best for your heart.
They say all is fair in love and in war,
But fair...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derisive, love,
Form: Grook

Book: Shattered Sighs