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Best Loathsome Poems

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Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loathsome, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loathsome, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: loathsome, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
But It's Time
The cock hasn't been seen in a fortnight 
but it's time 
the vagabonds have all but vacated   
and the windows boarded up 
  
don't...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loathsome, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
"Broken families beget culprits, and late remorse can never set things right"
~ By Poet.

Scenes reel back casting dark shadows,
Of the fated day I had to...

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Categories: loathsome, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mellow Flash Hope

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swoon beam on the edge
optimism tempered twinkle~
frontward...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loathsome, analogy, appreciation, faith, hope,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Zoo's Who
Paula parrot is my name. I'm from the wild, but now I'm tame
A chatterbox who likes to talk! 
Have news to share? Let's take a...

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Categories: loathsome, animal,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Beholden To Hinnom
Valley of despair,
eager, burns eternal flames,
delivering souls.

Loathsome lake of fire,
choking forth ash and sulfur,
swallowing the damned.

Cursed, unholy ground,
biblical euphemism,
forge of wickedness....

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Categories: loathsome, religion
Form: Haiku
A Breath of Time
In youth we shared a breath of time
I cherish yet today.
The plans we made for life ahead
Would soon be underway.
The dreams we shared, those lofty...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loathsome, faith, hope, lost love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Goodbye, Good Riddance! (Co-Written With James Fraser)
With no toilet seats carelessly left propped up
Oh, now I can be such a comfortable pup
Please take your Playboys straight out that open door
Then shut...

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Categories: loathsome, funnyme,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member You'Ve Broken Me
you've broken me in ways I can't recount
unloved, uncherished, and unsought am I
the anguish of my soul I can't surmount
the pounding of my heart an...

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Categories: loathsome, longing, love hurts,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Two-Faced
A tyburn is a six line poem consisting of 2,2,2,2,9,9 syllables. 
The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. 
The last two lines...

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Categories: loathsome, love hurts,
Form: Tyburn
Wicked Art!
This poison paint colors my canvas
Indelible, it will not depart
Painted this masterwork is on my surface
Loathsome canvas!
Wicked art!
A masterpiece you work
Varnished transgressions that can not...

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Categories: loathsome, allegory, art, devotion,
Form: Free verse
A Book
When a child if gifted with a book it transforms into a key to unlock the mind.  The gate to the secret garden of...

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Categories: loathsome, adventure, books, children,
Form: Free verse
It Must Be So
Sooth this irrational rage resplendent in its affliction
See through the foolish drawls that make up my surrounding core
Understand I see each flaw of mine in...

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Categories: loathsome, beautiful, dedication, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs