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Best Epithets Poems

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Zinc Adulating

Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...

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Categories: epithets, metaphor, parody, slam, word
Form: ABC
Premium Member Reconstruction
Lincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists, 
their clenched jaws and fists.

Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks and mirages.

Nobody is qualified...

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Categories: epithets, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Writing Is a Wonder-Filled Game
Without the relentless grind of living 
each glorious and difficult day
those who take up the writing life wouldn't 
have much to say. 

It's the flowers...

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Categories: epithets, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What's Wrong With You, Man
If I spit at you
  Wouldn't you smile at me

If I swung a bat at you
  Wouldn't you give me a big hug

If...

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Categories: epithets, america, hate, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Dogs Could Talk
If dogs could talk, what would they say?
  Would they label any of their own as "mangy mutts?"  
Would they toss around epithets...

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Categories: epithets, character, dog, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother's Little Killers
MOTHER’S LITTLE KILLERS

She hates them, the unguent power
Which sticks her fairy wings together
Making impossible the ivory tower
Of disinterested passion, the if and whether

Of generic names,...

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Categories: epithets, addiction, depression, mother, drug,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epithets, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Value of Reading
"The Value of Reading"

messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?

"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late 
when it...

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Categories: epithets, betrayal, books, death, loss,
Form: Narrative
My Love's Demise
Atrium's veneer was of coagulum 
Of epithets and vague reflexions 
That halted the roue from circulation 
Vengeance was her ultimatum 
  
And thus her...

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Categories: epithets, death, feelings, grief, life,
Form: Rhyme
Garuda
I am Garuda, a vahana of Lord Vishnu
A crown on my head show you my divine
As I soaring high in the air
Vedas chanted out of...

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Categories: epithets, bird, mythology,
Form: Free verse
In Abasement In a Basement
OH - nonny, NO - nonny
Nicholas Goalsworthy
Promised again to
Renounce alcohol.
Characteristically
Incomprehensible,
Muttering epithets,
Cursing the wall....

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Categories: epithets, angst, depression, sad,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member Observed In a Small Town
It was Friday night in small town, USA. The convenience store clerk was outside in the parking lot, arguing with her boyfriend. Instant recognition, one...

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Categories: epithets, humanity, life, youth,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward:...

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Categories: epithets, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Tides
As the tides roll in off the sea
Erased are the days memories
In sand many poems were written
Epithets sketched in bare feet-
Reading the unwritten-
Under the shade...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epithets, devotion, visionary,
Form: Carpe Diem
A - Sonnish - On Fluidity
Don’t define me by what you think I am
I refuse to label myself 
Exclude me from your pre-program
I don’t follow your parallel
How I express things...

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Categories: epithets, change, gender, identity, image,
Form: Sonnet