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Best Flogging Poems


Flogging a Dead Horse
While snarkers strive with proud but fruitless disdain                                     ...

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Categories: flogging, allusion, grave, humor, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
A Flogging Rain
We carry small talk above our heads, ceilings drip clouds.
Nothing is put away.  Coats dangle over chairs in layers.
Drugged by spate and mizzle, denim droops, 
snagged over rummage
and the outstretched arms of impedimenta.

The house awakes to a soft toed patter.
Around us, cuffs pull the...

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Categories: flogging, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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