Best Galled Poems

As mist descended far and low, 
dark storm clouds stirred the sea. 
Upon the rocks a maiden lay, 
weep by the tide did she.
 
Fair English rose, her skin so pure, 
awash with salty dew. 
Now tarnished, long cascading hair 
once glowed a golden hue....

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A Poem About Nothing but Love
By: Tyner Twine

"I edited a few parts from my original poem.
As tribute to my first love's requiem.
Nevertheless, this simple soul song is the same,
 Written all for love and not for fame. 
A poem of love I wrote on hot...

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I was adopted as a young child
Throughout my life I’ve been reviled
All my emotions ran so wild
                    My tragic sad childhood


I was breathless when mum called
but...

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We wear this earth
                 and bear the heft of stones,
  glacier-galled, polished by 
              ...

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We boomers, as our generation’s called,
have lived through two seasons, considered great,
during which our values were overhauled --
The Summer of Love and Autumn of Hate.
Both brought us together and gave us hope.
In the face of injustice, both were staged --
the first, a celebration with free...

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Have you heard about fishing for turds …
It’s for children and maybe for nerds
For brown floaters you’ll fish
Or there's nets which you swish
For once I’m almost lost for words!

My granny was shocked and appalled
Suggesting this toy be blackballed
Cos small kids may copy
Real poo’s (firm or...

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Whose idea it was,
An early morning picnic by the beach!
The air is cold and the sea is loud
With the sea gulls all clattering
my husband fancies taking a dip
with the children all clamoring.
as the dog runs chasing rabbits 
the wind’s thick as soup.
	While I lay here...

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I may not be that man you so much wanted;
That man you carved in your deepest imagination,
One who is too good to be human and whose air graces the eye.

I must have threaded a path,
A path I so much dreaded
But fate only laid me bare
Just...

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As this fevered vision comes to pass
these saviors with their plagued feet
grinning lips bereft of truth and teeth
sorely hunger for our wealthy carcass

Armed with a legion of noisy mosquitoes
billboards, loudspeakers are screaming out
glossy party programs from north and south
hide in shiny boots ulcers of a...

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Imprisoned in the four walls of Rejection’s cell
The world stone deaf to the screams coming from this hell

I throw myself at the padded walls, frenzied…appalled
Self-loathing spews into my mouth leaving me galled

You see the face, read the words, but don’t understand
Rejection is pounding me down...

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We boomers, as our generation’s called,
have lived through two seasons, considered great,
during which our values were overhauled --
The Summer of Love and Autumn of Hate.
Both brought us together and gave us hope.
In the face of injustice, both were staged --
the first, a celebration with free...

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A Limp and Aspirins

I sit at the edge of the bed, 
my hip hurts, 
my back aches, 
and my legs are on fire. 
Not for the first time, 
not for the last. 
If one more person asks, 
have I prayed about this, 
or that...
I am...

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I was pulled out of the school; doomed into hard labor,
To my home, at budding age, I became a life-saver...!

When kids of my age, with stylish satchels, proceed to school,
I, in cracker-workshops noxious, chemicals heat and cool...! 

With my tender hands, I shape cute beautiful...

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Greetings to you in Jesus name, who gave me love to love
Offering himself for my sins to save me by grace above
Delightsome is the joy of friends, take peace from forgiveness
So your soul may heal. I pray for you always happiness.

Frankly told my heart burns...

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For every stone I lay I bleed
Bone batterers the pile at my feet
Are foundations so I succeed
Making my triumph out of defeat
Brick by battering brick I laid
Each flesh fanged stone rising up
Against being sore and afraid
Grimacing but gulping from the cup
Of spite, of jealousy, of...

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