Best Impudent Poems


Premium Member Wombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria
...I. THE WANDERING

I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char

The priests brought saffron
and fear

crowning me with d......

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Categories: impudent, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Where Man Walks Blindly and Heart Begs Relief
...Where Man Walks Blindly And Heart Begs Relief

In the gnashing of teeth rests 
a curse hurled at infinity
with its smug cannons of false piety
and impudent airs of erosion.
Where that mystical ......

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Categories: impudent, art, blue, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Echo
...Her neighbors claim her as their fairy,
And gather around to protect
This little wood nymph of their forest
Who so needs their love and respect.

They don't know how she came to their woodland.
It se......

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Categories: impudent, evil, i love you,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member I Saw a Man Stark Naked
...I saw a man stark naked there unexpectedly,
who in his masculine fashion, though not apprehensively,
went gliding (or was he striding?)
down the center of the hall.
He did not glimpse me ......

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Categories: impudent, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Funeral of a Surrealist
...Surrealist’s funeral is held in the air,
yet, his coffin is not carried by a supersonic speed plane 
flying through the open sky—altitude higher than the stratosphere,
gazing at the sun or a blimp......

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impudent, funeral, loneliness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Life of Death
...dark she rode stealth into the night
 grasping unsuspecting souls at will

 flagrantly impudent and remorseless 
 decimating dauntless troops
 she showed no clemency

 under the veil of night
......

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Categories: impudent, angel, death, fate, humanity,
Form: Verse


Premium Member Where Do We Come In
...Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what we saw d......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impudent, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon
...Nebuchadnezzar his royal highness
Engulfed by the abundance of his sight,
Once mused himself to the madness
Which arose from the pride of his heart:
"Is this not the great Babylon kingdom
Built ......

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Categories: impudent, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Sinkholes - Prophetic
...sinkholes

 suddenly slam 

 earth asunder


 do you hear the thunder?

 the rains are coming

 can you sense it in the air?

  
 Chaos everywhere...

 mountains falling

 streams h......

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Categories: impudent, metaphor, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Land of the Free
...Oh, Land of the Free 
You have presumptuously deemed yourself the mouthpiece and policy maker 
Of the world
How overconfident
How impudent
Who makes you... 
                          Oh, King o......

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Categories: impudent, allegory, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Elegy
Talk Is Cheap - Battle Rap
...Talk is Cheap - Battle Rap

Yo, Ima outcheek you… gimme that mic,
I’m lethal, a viper ready to strike;
and it ain’t gonna be pretty – not ladylike.
Just gotta tell you straight up like it......

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Categories: impudent, fun, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To Every New Poem
...Here on poetrysoup, the newest poem,
 pops up on-screen
like the latest off-shoot, or newborn babe
or like a newest floral bud,
in the orchards of poetry.
Or like a fresh wave of words
crashing......

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Categories: impudent, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Limerick Contest
...Tale of a Squirrel's Tail

There once was a very impudent squirrel
pretending to be an innocent girl
she wore a blonde wig
tried to act so big
dancing and prancing, giving life a whirl

One d......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impudent, humor,
Form: Limerick
Inversion
...So many times I counted on you
Times only you could help me through
Reasons unexplained; you gave no aid to me
Every single day now, you are failing.
No excuses, no lines, no reason is good enough.
G......

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Categories: impudent, mom,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Trials of Meretrix Canto Vii
...My Lords an adjournment is 
Called for...
All my retire;
But holding foremost in your
Thoughts,
I beseech ye,
Thee impudent countenance of
This most ardent denier.
Therefore heed me,
I cauti......

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Categories: impudent, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
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