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Best Maggots Poems

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Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: maggots, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rinse Clear POTD
Mind – a pool, deep and arcane,
Needs to be cleared n' cleansed from time to time
In the sinuous course of life,
Pause awhile to peer into...

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Categories: maggots, introspection, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: maggots, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Couple of Lims
TIGHTWAD TIMMY

Tightwad Timmy bought some very cheap meat
With fresh vege t'would be a nice tasty treat
But something was wrong 
There was a strange pong
And maggots...

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Categories: maggots, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member -cancer-
~Cancer~

Seaweed waves upon my hair,
an empty grave in a maggots lair.
The taste of death is what I crave.
Don't forget the pretty flowers on my grave.
I...

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Categories: maggots, health
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dark Black Night
Once upon a midnight, ghostly,
Partied many, dead ones mostly.
Feasting in the graveyard, sprightly,
White eyed werewolves gorged, engrossedly.

In the bone yard, drab and squalid,
Apparitions (staring stolid
Neath...

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Categories: maggots, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rubaiyat
An English Life
An English Life

It is midnight the Milk train pulls into darnall station
No ordinary passengers here
Steelworkers with their families
Loaded with fishing tackle, sandwiches and maggots
The Fossdyke...

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Categories: maggots, childhood, happiness, passion, education,
Form: Free verse
Somewhat Twisted Thoughts of the Day
If love is a game I need a referee
If sex is a game I want instant re-play
I played the game of life but fouled out
Life...

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Categories: maggots, funny, life,
Form: Light Verse
Nothing Lasts Forever
There once rose a man; Adolf Hitler
Who established himself as the world’s conqueror,
Thought of himself as an immortal
But nothing lasts forever.
Seasons come and go,
For every...

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Categories: maggots, poetry, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
she tricked him,
she baited her,
her soft steps,
leaving no trail,

when she ran off,
the only thing they saw,
was her,
fuzzy bunny tail,

her intentions were hidden,
a clever disguise,
masked beneath,
her...

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Categories: maggots, abuse, child, evil, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Alive
And we are left here
Like maggots—dirty, parentless…devastated
Always feeding on the gruel…the cruel
Fattening our lives in the moneyless bilk
Shocking like a bee sting, yet soft as...

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Categories: maggots, angst, childhood, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
Pig a Billa
Pig a billa

Good tucker is ol pig-billa,
Porcupine Echidna hey,
Favourite food of Aboriginals,
Has him own spears anyway,

Track him cross the hot red sand,
Which way does he...

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Categories: maggots, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Read Me: Awful Truths
At the station Paton stares at me from the train bound for Johannesburg
He leaves a note to remember to mop up where the roof leaks
This...

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Categories: maggots, books, history, language, literature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Witch At Pike's Peak
Once upon a Pike’s Peak dreary,
This witch said her name was Carrie,
Fog so thick couldn’t see nary,
Though her screech was a bit scary!

Suddenly the thick...

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Categories: maggots, funny
Form: Rhyme
Conspicuous Lice
Some conspicuous lice met once or twice  
With white follicle mites who came out at night
And an upside down tick who did magic tricks
That...

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Categories: maggots, insect, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs