Best Extorted Poems
My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs
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There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured heavenly......
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Categories:
extorted, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Confession
...This lapse shed showers of sorrows
Piercing my diamond heart with its arrows
And as it breaks within my grasp furrows
It paints little hells on my minds marrows
Oh! Pretty maiden so dark and co......
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Categories:
extorted, adventure, best friend, body,
Form:
Rondeau Redouble
Inheritance
...Death lingers
Not in an essence, or scent-
No spectral aura conjured by tears or laughter,
But through wishes left too late and unspoken
Guesses made in blue ink, seal stamped, and filed.
Your l......
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Categories:
extorted, death, introspection, missing you,
Form:
Free verse
Memories Warning-Possible Trigger For Sexual Abuse Victims
...The memories pull her down,
Like the undertow.
Drowning.
Suffocating.
She tries to fight it,
But it’s of no use.
She feels dirty, fat, victimized, defiled,
Extorted, broken, and ugly.
She c......
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Categories:
extorted, abuse, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The La cosa nostra and Me
...the sheer notion of extorted kindness
buried beneath a sorrowful note
of racketeering compassion
above a silent whisper throughout
the queerness of being wise beyond
a tarnished silver ......
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Categories:
extorted, allah,
Form:
Lento
La Cosa Nostra Princess
...you entered my world
through an unopened door
dazzled with my mind catering
to my thoughts I'd wondered
your extreme motive night and day
desperately trying to focus above the old man
w......
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Categories:
extorted, allah,
Form:
Lento
Moon Flower
...Moon flower
You lay on white cotton sheets with the hospital logo imprinted
on the cloth and on the fabric of your life talcum powder for
your bed sores anorexic washed out gastric spittle dribb......
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Categories:
extorted, addiction, bereavement, caregiving, death
Form:
Personification
A Sinner's Prayer
...Perpetually I am thrown in the pulse of mourning against the wall
With sincerity I ask lord if you indeed subsist, apprehend my soul through it all
From the immoral ways accumulated in yesteryears
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Categories:
extorted, introspectionme,
Form:
Rhyme
Eva Nell
...EVE NELL
BY
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
EVA NELL WAS A BEAUTIFUL BABY, LATER A TEEN
A GORGEOUS WOMAN, AS HAS EVER BEEN SEEN
COQUETTISH, CHARMING, WITH INVITING SIGHS
SOME SAID THERE WAS EVIL BEHIND ......
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Categories:
extorted, allegory, betrayal, dark, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Dillen and the Dmv
...TO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common co......
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Categories:
extorted, culture, discrimination, health, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Icon of Nigerian Politics
...FOR DR. ABUBAKAR OLUSOLA SARAKI
Ilorin is bereaved again: another calamity has struck!
Ilorin has lost another pride of the community.
Saraki this time! Why has Mr. Death focused on us?
He has al......
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Categories:
extorted, bereavement, , literature,
Form:
Elegy
Our Building(4 University of Ibadan Students' Union Building
...Our convergent joint
The rallying point
Mecca to the Pastors and Sisters
Jerusalem to the “Alhajas and Alfas”
Refuge to the weak
Shield to the strong
Nowhere on campus like our building
Lif......
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Categories:
extorted, adventure, nostalgia, philosophybody,
Form:
Flow of Thoughts
...I can’t explain the emotions that gather.
Trapped in my very own current of thoughts that rushes me like a flood from a broken dam. Unable to slow down or control my emotional over flow. I’m the f......
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Categories:
extorted, emotions, growing up, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
License To Breathe
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Publican politicians talk in half-price right angles
Dodge City liberty
being smoking barrel bargain sold
at a chill,
Colt-45 degrees
AC (alcoholic crops) bootleggers selling
Proh......
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Categories:
extorted, imagery, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Your Tortured Thorn-Put Your Best Poe Forward Contest
...Put Your Best Poe Forward Contest
Sponsor: Tommy Boy
Upon the night came the rustling branches, I knew I could not take anymore chances,
I flipped and turned and sat entrancing, just to see yo......
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Categories:
extorted, absence, flower, hurt, i
Form:
Rhyme