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Best Infractions Poems

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Victim.....Survivor
You are one cruel hearted man.
One too many for my life span.

You have inflicted one too many abuses.
I am so tired of your lousy excuses!

Whether...

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Categories: infractions, recovery from...me,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Meant For Someone Else
Last night I had a dream
to give to you this song I'd sing
Tho on my mind was someone else
But there were you from off my...

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Categories: infractions, angst, crush, love,
Form: Rhyme
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already...

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Categories: infractions, father son,
Form: Blank verse
Into the Woods
I stand neck-high tall
within the quicksand
of my infirmities.
Green and gaunt,
I hesitantly genuflect.

Ravaged tendons and corpuscles
are barely breathing
within the vacant corridors
of a soiled carcass.

My ardor for...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infractions, introspection
Form: Free verse
To Be Black Is a Crime In America
Gunshots and tasers aimed at the back
tracking the movements and memories
of unsuspecting dark-skinned citizens 
marked by the scars of a history denied

For Rumain Brisbon, 34
it...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infractions, anger, bereavement, black african
Form: Verse



Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen,...

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Categories: infractions, betrayal, culture, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Free Verse Nonsense
Warning!!
This is a free verse poem.
It may not meet the high standards of poetry soup.
It is also highly controversial.
The writer of this poem realizes that...

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Categories: infractions, angstpoetry,
Form: Free verse
Numbers Count On Themselves
Numbers Count On Themselves

3’s make love in the open 
Twist with trees that turn from Winter
Count on music to reveal Spring
Several 7’s take lessons on...

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Categories: infractions, business, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet's Mirage
There is a bubble of illusion right here on the soup
Its shadow still finds the same sozzled group
This conjuring is cloaked and lobbied with scripture
But...

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Categories: infractions, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
A Deconstruction
A Deconstruction

I speak of nothing but 
destruction
Buttered prose; a mere 
distraction
Recited when the flux lines 
froze

Resolved, I became a fraction
Convergent series; no inflection
Crossed divisors as...

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© Dylan Wong  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infractions, writing
Form: I do not know?
In My Night Journey
I travel in my imagination to talk to the sky about the sound from crying 
 Mum, the coastal area erosion my interest to take...

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Categories: infractions, blessing, loneliness, love, ,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Step Santa and Petting the Prefix
12/28/18
I just received a gift from my {step}mother, 
Only three days late this year.
It's a Santa Claus soap dispenser... with a twirl and a twist....

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Categories: infractions, abuse, holiday, mother,
Form: Free verse
The Little Girl Who Played In Closets
There once was a little girl who played in walk in closets
She'd shut the door to the world outside because her mom
was neurotic and psychotic
And...

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Categories: infractions, butterfly, child abuse, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Ain'T My Fault!
It all began with Adam and Eve and that wily snake!
Eve was tempted and ate the fruit - that was the first mistake!
Adam was right...

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Categories: infractions, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love In the Twilight Years
Can we talk about love in the twilight years

Ain't not no expert I must confess

But the older I get, find myself ogling young ladies

Might even...

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Categories: infractions, age, love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs