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Best Exacerbating Poems

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Premium Member I Slipped On a Teardrop
I slipped on a teardrop
Landed in a tragedy
People with twisted minds
On random killing sprees
No legitimate reason
Fueled by ignorant hate
Politicians turning their heads
Letting guns proliferate
Unspeakable heinous...

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Categories: exacerbating, america, anger, anxiety, hate,
Form: Rhyme



Our Ship of Life
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life pummels us from side to side 
randomly dictating its capricious ways 
lacking logic the tossing grips us...

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Categories: exacerbating, life, perspective,
Form: Didactic
I Will Lock Up My Door
Pain so debilitating
draining me of life
It is constant
with no respite
Saps my energy 
such pain within

Pain depletes joy 
from my face
Leaves strain and hurt
etched on my...

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Categories: exacerbating, emotions, health, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Demarcating of Sue
THE DEMARCATING OF SUE
Between the edge of secrecy
and seething brink of lunacy
there went I to the very deepest
     darkest part of...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exacerbating, analogy, bereavement, break up,
Form: Ballad
Rising and Falling In a Tempest
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life, pummels us from one side to the other 
randomly dictating capricious ways 
arbitrarily gripping our lives

Life, like...

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Categories: exacerbating, happiness, life, remember, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member North Shore
ONCE I WAS STANDING 
ON THE NORTH SHORE  
WATCHING THIS INCOMING 
HIDEOUS WHORE 
NOW, LET ME MAKE CLEAR  
IT WAS A FORTY FOOT...

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Categories: exacerbating, fear, horror, ocean, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Magic Beans
MAGIC BEANS


There was magic in those beans!!
Colors - reds, greens, blacks,
savory flavors, and sweetness,
sweetness to ease the uneasiness.
They became a sought after reward,
payment for being,...

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Categories: exacerbating, abuse, addiction, childhood,
Form: Free verse
San Jacinto
Evil is what those devils will not conceal.
At Goliad, we tasted their bayonet steel.
The walls at the Alamo have been painted red.
Davy Crockett and some...

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Categories: exacerbating, history, sweet, men, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
Last Crimson Swirl
Drowning in self degradation
Deliberate affliction is exacerbating 
Crystalline facade dulling senses 
Normalcy, forgetting our consensus


Score, decennary years within  
point, swirling under skin
Finality, deaths creeping...

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Categories: exacerbating, addiction, conflict, death, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Crystalline Divinity
My flower grows on a lucid hilltop pride,on land that never erodes and thrives 
through death's caressing touch.Capsulized in crystalline, her petals fall like 
dewdrops...

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Categories: exacerbating, life, body, me,
Form: I do not know?
Love In An Abnormal Heart Shaped Sphere:
I can see you crystal clear, now that the wind has died down
The unnerving preferential treatment, called silence
Has got my mind all up in a...

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Categories: exacerbating, absence, beautiful, bullying, crush,
Form: Ballad
Invited To Vote For Hillary
Invited to Vote for Hillary

There was a gorgeous, great finale'
When we went to the Hillary rally
To debate' rules they had adherence
She had Top Secret Security...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exacerbating, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Mental Illness Inherent Since Birth
Fresh home from therapy,
     and resonate with zeal
tush air cerebral cogs a turn'n
     analogous to and pinion...

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Categories: exacerbating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Apocalypse
Stricken souls gasp amid rapt tension
And surreal panic as the world spirals
Under throes of exacerbating fire;
Trapped between numinous brawls. 

A virulent pandemic subsides
As near-nukes its...

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Categories: exacerbating, anger, anxiety, betrayal, christian,
Form: Elegy
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Internalized emotions wrought
quotidian psychological oppression
retrospective reflection courtesy
20/20 hindsight reveals absolute zero
positive development of body, mind, and spirit
extreme agitation compromised

maturation, education, and socialization
every year since being
born...

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Categories: exacerbating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs