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Best Malfunctioned Poems

Below are the all-time best Malfunctioned poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of malfunctioned poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Sun Will Shine
THE SUN WILL SHINE

The elevator has malfunctioned.
Issues are surmountable.
I just have to see a way to defeat the problems I would not let hold on.
I'll...

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Categories: malfunctioned, anger, angst, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member More Epitaphs Observed At Evergreen Cemetery
Cecil the Magician knew a heap of tricks,
But, alas, couldn't get himself out of this fix!

Carl was laid to rest for his eternal snooze,
Brought about...

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Categories: malfunctioned, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Subtraction
Subtraction

If you subtract your bad self, 
In every way, every part as best you can,
Then you’ll find better health,  
And other people won’t suffer...

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Categories: malfunctioned, change, character, courage, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Neil Armstrong
The great man is dead
And he may find in this voyage
So many Columbus that left us blind
Without knowledge
Of earth indisputable speck
Steering the shipwreck
With malfunctioned cameras...

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Categories: malfunctioned, tribute, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Real Wealth of Alaska
All my worldly possessions were sold
an adventure to north Alaska to find gold,

way past the Yukon river, provisions bought,
snowmobile loaded, riches to be sought,

following route...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: malfunctioned, adventure, death, devotion, friendship,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Christian-Taoist Continues Standing
I was baptized as a Christian,
once or twice.
It's not so much that the baptism ritual malfunctioned
in some series of unfortunate events;
It's more like Taoism as...

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Categories: malfunctioned, baptism, community, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Preudicuary--
PREUDICUARY---

Preudicuary
Evil deeds, evils done
Just for cause of the false righteous ones
Hey Mr. white supremist, something bout to happen, I love you
And Mr. Klan-man won’t you...

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Categories: malfunctioned, addiction, assonance, betrayal, community,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Last Train To Auschwitz
As a child she was in the dark to what was unfolding around her
it was WW2 and she knew not of the deaths at Auschwitz...

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Categories: malfunctioned, death,
Form: Haibun
Darkness Reigns
The blood curdling screams rang out into the night
The little beggars were dragging someone to their lair
Huddled together, trembling with fear, we closed our eyes
She...

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Categories: malfunctioned, animal, cat, fear, sky,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Zombie
What has one become?
Do as the monster chooses
Mirrored in the eyes

Where did it come from?
Short circuits and blown fuses
A malfunctioned mind

What does it want?
The daemon...

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Categories: malfunctioned, allegory, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Haiku
10 Rs 4 Os
It went in flames
It was already burning before it began
We were not ready
We were not prepared
For this onslaught of emotion
I wish I could say more
I...

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© Su Ar  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: malfunctioned, father, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Dear Mister Carney
dear mr. carney 

just what are the “international obligations”
of the country of which your talking head twitches?
just how many nukes, biological weapons &
weapons whose horrors...

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Categories: malfunctioned, life,
Form: Free verse
All There Is
this,
is all there is---
this page, this typeface, these words, 
shot out amongst the surface as a leaf blower might,
if that mechanism inside 
which is used...

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Categories: malfunctioned, life
Form: Free verse
Wild With Mushrooms
spiders slick so
slippery master the
sorts of sane. me; this
tree draped over me,
i can taste vulgarity 
like dust cracking the
air. move back, away,
all touch is a...

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Categories: malfunctioned, allegory, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
I Still Remember That Day
I looked at the blue wild sky ,
The sky that is as vast as eternity,
The sky that holds the Universe in its lap,
When the stars...

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Categories: malfunctioned, betrayal, blue, creation, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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