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...

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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...

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I was adopted as a young child
Throughout my life I’ve been reviled
All my emotions ran so wild
        ...

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We wear this earth
                 and bear the heft of...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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