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Best Disservice Poems

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


Diary of a Salmon
Day 1
Today I passed a shad,
on his way to Prince William Sound.
He protested that I go downstream.
But to the current he is bound.

Day 2
I encountered...

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Categories: disservice, adventure, fish, humor, humorous,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Put To the Test
PUT TO THE TEST

Planet earth has been put to the test,
Everyone we hope is doing their best,
Unavoidable to sometimes feel depressed,
No family member for tea...

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Categories: disservice, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through Bigoted Eyes
As imperfect humans, we judge perceived on what our eyes see
It's a mistake many of us make, and not based on a heart's purity.
A trait...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disservice, discrimination, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Craft Can Capture It
Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disservice, adventure, art, brother, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Call Me Black Gold Or Handsome Devil
CALL ME THE BLACK GOLD OR THE HANDSOME DEVIL
How did you find me, my undeterred and awesomely daring love?
When I flew away into time years...

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Categories: disservice, africa, courage, desire, destiny,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholy--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost...

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Categories: disservice, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member What Are We Learning
What have you learned from your family experience
that influences your position
on public health and safety,
national health defense
and economic offensives you might propose
for healthier individuals 
and...

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Categories: disservice, environment, family, health, history,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Body Language Is Often Inconclusive
Body Language 
Is often Inconclusive
Written: by Tom Wright
1/29/2013


Studies have shown that with folded arms,
That we’re either uncomfortable or nervous;
Or we’re in possession of negative thoughts,
And...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disservice, body, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Eulogy For An Unsung Hero
Eulogy For An Unsung Hero ©

The late John Sidney McCain III,
     now flies with Arrow Smith,
     Babbitt,...

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Categories: disservice, 12th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member My Reproductive Rights Attorney
An attorney friend of mine once said,
We have two opposing views
of the hows and whys of law and time and natural evolution,
including natural law,
and including...

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Categories: disservice, appreciation, corruption, earth, games,
Form: Political Verse
I'M Sorry
I’m stuck.
My mouth tries to speak my thoughts.
My creative process is buried in the muck. 
My tongue is in tangled up knots.
I long so terribly...

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Categories: disservice, angst, anxiety, break up,
Form: Lyric
The Descriptive Injury: Part Ii
it would have been an injury to them both
to attempt a description,
to bring what it was that compelled the girl to silence
(if she had not...

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Categories: disservice, life, girl, girl,
Form: Free verse
Theres a Pedophile In the House
There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)

OMG,... and he looks...
     SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
     absolutely...

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Categories: disservice, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegy
Loose Lips
I ain't snitchin', I ain't talkin' 
Got nothin' on me, so I'll soon be walkin' 
I ain't gone get loose with my lips, I'm equipped,...

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Categories: disservice, song-lyric
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Health Loss Wargames
As I transitioned from high school
to the University of Michigan,
one of the leading national health and safety issues
was painfully violent loss of Vietnamese and U.S....

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Categories: disservice, america, conflict, confusion, growing
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things