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Best Dysfunctional Poems

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


Premium Member Dysfunctional Dignity -
I can see us now Luv,
pettin ponies, musing in warm moon light,
free versin in satin style, a smile born from genuine form,

Two hearts too stubborn...

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Categories: dysfunctional, inspirational love, love hurts,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Dysfunctional Inner Peace
The scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally 
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce...

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Categories: dysfunctional, conflict, deep, prejudice, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysfunctional, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am

In uncontrollable destinies,
fate is visible, signposted with faith.
In limitations of the intangible unforeseen,
tribulations from tangible organisms,
leave a heart yearning to release 
the force from kundalini kismet.

What...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysfunctional, i am,
Form: Free verse
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed...

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Categories: dysfunctional, childhood,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Lost To Dementia
Night of the Dark Soul;
shadows slip into
the gap between self
and oblivion.

Your reality
slowly disappears;
and your memories
start to fade away.

Your mind's a fogy
dysfunctional place;
Alzheimer's mixes
dreams with delusions.

The...

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Categories: dysfunctional, august, crazy, emotions, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Prayer For the City
Prayer for the City

Dear God,
How heavy are my thoughts tonight!
I feel the ills of the city, pressing, pressing.
For all the young people being arrested, right...

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Categories: dysfunctional, care, city, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stepping Stone
The day fast fades
the end draws near
our time is fleeting
so brief and so dear

Over and over
I longed for you so
the longing unanswered
and so I must...

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Categories: dysfunctional, life, love hurts, moving
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Odyssey
she shuffles in tattered slippers
held by elastic bands
securing them to her feet
bindings taken for granted

her thoughts settled into routine
to cross the dining room floor
to her...

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Categories: dysfunctional, age, endurance, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Runaway Train
The slap of sneakers on concrete,
Fill my ears with hollow sound;
Like my heart it has a beat,
Steady thumps against the ground.
My eyes are wide, to...

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Categories: dysfunctional, teen, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Paternal Love
What i always wanted in life
Was an ideal dad
One who cared about family happiness 
And could cheer us up when were sad.

I always wanted a...

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Categories: dysfunctional, faith, family, fantasyme, family,
Form: Light Verse
Striving For Political Correctness
Striving for Political Correctness

By Elton Camp

It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.
There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysfunctional, funnypeople, people,
Form: Rhyme
Peace By Ikea
My muse had a good idea,
Let's flood the world with Ikea!
Dysfunctional kits, there and here,
For guns and bombs,
No one would care,
They would be assembling Ikea,
Each...

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Categories: dysfunctional, dream, earth, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Off-Sprung
futures cavort below the horizon
  an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
  tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
  half...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysfunctional, children, family, love, tribute,
Form: Verse
Dream In Dreams
“Dream in Dreams" 
My mind awakes to taste the tongues of those words you release. Yeah its speaks to me!
Am hungry for those pink lips...

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Categories: dysfunctional, heart, i love you,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things