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Best Leprous Poems

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Bold Women of Old
Eve, the mother of all mankind,
Adam found his helpmeet in her.
Old Sarah, through faith, was confined.
Rebecca, the first twins’ mother.
Shiphrah and Puah, brave midwives
Saved Hebrew...

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Categories: leprous, appreciation, inspirational, women,
Form: Ode



When Meaning Is Meaningless
When Meaning Is Meaningless
The value of life is delicious debris
               ...

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Categories: leprous, vanity,
Form: Lyric
The Magic Carpet
Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of 
Maplethorpe House. Mysterious, moody 
and always morose, it's as if...

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Categories: leprous, magic,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Second Coming
Chartreuse moss insinuates itself
into cracked brick as leprous eucalyptus
line the path, fallen leaves contorted 
into coral spines on weathered terra cotta.

Traveling between the trees I...

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Categories: leprous, nature,
Form: Alliteration
Laughing Lunatics Lounge
Within my psychedelic psychosis divided by hell’s malignant mitosis,
Navigated by narcotized neurosis absorption through opiate osmosis…
Within my lunatic leverage of will, I needed to miraculously...

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Categories: leprous, identity, mental illness, solitude,
Form: Rhyme



Magic
Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of 
Maplethorpe House. Mysterious, moody 
and always morose, it's as if...

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Categories: leprous, mystery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Autumnal
Autumn draws closer day by day
From far is heard 
The screeching of a lone bird
Voicing its dismay aloud
Over the impending fall
Here the moss scrawls 
Ugly...

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Categories: leprous, angst, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Murders - Part I
1.


In those slow, dead hours that hang attendant
Upon the birth of the dawn,
When all things pure lie safe abed,
Nested in sleep's safe oblivion,
The rituals take...

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Categories: leprous, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
The Caesars' Mad Rule
I

Truly how blessed are we not to bow to the barbaric chivalry
Of emperors and kings’  in raging insanity
Historical madness runs in the house of...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leprous, history, power,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Night Soil Man - Part One
              The Night Soil Man

			I

		Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leprous, abuse, discrimination, night, racism,
Form: Free verse
My Teacher!!!
“A teacher, taught our ignorance the path to civilization,
respect all.”

               ...

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Categories: leprous, schoolheaven, heaven, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member My Room Mates
Nightly they give thanks
With uncanny stealth they close in
By the scent of carbon dioxide
Drawn to a table
well prepared in the presence
And, of their enemy!

Endlessly raped...

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Categories: leprous, pain,
Form: Narrative
I Am the Project Air Bridge
I am the Project Air Bridge, 
The veritable virus lord-cum-felon of duty fraud.
Fumaye's privileged his bridge that projects pompous airs.
Maelstrom, mammon coextend where it forks...

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Categories: leprous, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Gbomogbomo
Gbomogbomo {The Kidnappers}
  
   Most rebellious Mangroves limbs aloof
   Straddle the leprous ocean swamp,
   Here, no room for...

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Categories: leprous, sea
Form: Free verse
Feelings Left Unsaid

He looks at her
with mutilated disgust
The gentle touch on his shoulder,
from the woman she now is,
changes the look on his face
Through no fault of her...

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Categories: leprous, cancer, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs