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Best Forked Tongue Poems

Below are the all-time best Forked Tongue poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of forked tongue poems written by PoetrySoup members


Be Not Afraid
The mountains and hills shake at His tread,
"Resurrection is nigh", He calls to the dead;
The moon in the heavens grows pale at His wrath,
The sun...

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Categories: forked tongue, faith, mountains, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Apartheid
Africa's children blighted in the rich land of birth
Persecuted by the oppressing hand of foreign greed
Agitate for love to find in ancient pigment its worth
Rights...

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Categories: forked tongue, people, children, , cute,
Form: Acrostic
Walk Away
Cheap wine dimmed in the candle light thinking my life's bleak like her dreams keep cramping my sleep and I've had it with uncleaned teeth...

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Categories: forked tongue, break up, courage, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brother To a Brother
Brother brother
My brother
Mi Hermano
Man of La Mancha
Fat cat donning
A  gray flannel suit
Slim shades
Fake alligator shoes
Brother brother
Mi Hermano
Sitting behind a desk
Making decisions
For erroneous reasons
 brother...

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Categories: forked tongue, dedication, poets,
Form: Free verse
The Snake Charmer
She has eyes like a magnet, that pulls one in
To a steel web where there is no escape
Then she licks her lips as she watches...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forked tongue, lifelost, evil, lost,
Form: I do not know?



Cultural Events
Art Gallery. Museum. Parks. Zoo.
Cultural Events.
Glazed like raku pottery
In charcoal rainbows warbled all dark
On pidgeon necks
Like hell’s angels, dumbed,
Blowing smoke through your mind
In a haze...

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Categories: forked tongue, urbancity, drug,
Form: Free verse
The Longest Dawn Part 3 Hc Sonnets
THE LONGEST DAWN PART 3 H.C.SONNETS

There is nothing, everything, pain and joy
We can’t go back, struggle on for their sakes 
A blank sheet to fill,...

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Categories: forked tongue, life, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Maze
Maze
 
Oh my Heart, why do you seek
the ecstasy of Eden's garden
when love is a daunting puzzle.
Woe is you, you fool;
for you dare to travail
through...

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Categories: forked tongue, love,
Form: Free verse
Cholla's Legacy
A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic 
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes 
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays...

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Categories: forked tongue, america, appreciation, august, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump Re Ducks I Goose
Axe the old Don, a trump peter n piper
   of incredulous hellish crud - be gone
ha air brushed pompous ****
   Sunkist...

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Categories: forked tongue, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Beware the Mocking Jay
~ Monotetra form ~

No man's eyes will ever conceive
the things another mind may weave
If this counsel you don't believe
You are naïve    You...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forked tongue, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lost Wings
A heavy weight 
Black shadows 
Upon the shoulders 
Lead heavy 
As wings fall 
Expelled from 
The garden 
That of Eden 
Bent down 
In grief 
I...

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Categories: forked tongue, dark,
Form: Free verse
My Words Constrict Suppression
My words are not poisonous
I have a spider in my mouth
They are neither venomous
I rest a forked tongue between my teeth

My words are lovers
They sentence...

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Categories: forked tongue, words,
Form: Rhyme
Satan's Waitin
Unwanted in Heaven, most wanted in Hell,
He’s the one to whom your soul you sell. 
Right from creation, the onset of time, 
The bane of...

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Categories: forked tongue, parody
Form: Personification
You could run an eternity through shadows
You could run an eternity through shadows,  
Run an era in dim labyrinths,  
Time might hide you in its palm.  
But sooner...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forked tongue, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs