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Best Malfunctioning Poems

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Malfunctioning
Once more without sleep
all dreams exhausted
Neurotransmitters on high alert
rekindling furious flames
that lap hungrily through mid-back to feet
Like a chippy chiseling wood on the lathe
I splinter...

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Categories: malfunctioning, analogy, angst, body, health,
Form: Free verse



Why Men Are Called Groom and Women Bride
WHY MEN ARE CALLED GROOM AND WOMEN BRIDE

Hullabaloo and cacophony etched in your Union,
Soliloquies to break up with your said-protagonist of a spouse,
You forgot your...

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Categories: malfunctioning, 1st grade, for her,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Being Human
Osteoporosis, spinal stenosis
halitosis, that's the grossest
Hemorrhoids, hypo hyper thyroids
gallbladder removal will leave a void
Arthritis, pyelonephritis, gingivitis  
we will survive in spite of these
Toe fungus...

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Categories: malfunctioning, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Telephone
Winter nights, the darkness comes quick
Key in door, to an empty house
Jacket falls fast right on the floor
I stare at the stand, at the telephone...

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Categories: malfunctioning, england, funny, heart, longing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Telephone Version 2
Winter nights, the darkness comes quick
Key in door, to an empty house
Jacket falls fast right on the floor
I stare at the stand, at the telephone...

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Categories: malfunctioning, beauty, funny, funny love,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Progressive Rock
On the energy waves of the eons,
Of lyric and line ever-forming,
One is injected, transported,
With all vibrations bursting
Through the human heart and mind,
The jolting edge of...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: malfunctioning, encouraging, faith, humanity, music,
Form: Free verse
Conversation With Cancer
Conversation with Cancer

What are you cancer? Help me to understand please, 
An invasion of your body, a complicated disease!

Where did you come from? I really...

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Categories: malfunctioning, cancer, confusion, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Light Verse
Nostril Damn Mess
The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell 
   can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous 
...

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Categories: malfunctioning, angst, anxiety, conflict, creation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Non Conspicuous Causes
Horrible Death sentence, through a kiss and a soft whisper
expert assassination by the hands of a Leper
living particles with no length
pull mega ones with their...

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Categories: malfunctioning, life,
Form: Limerick
I Let You Go
I let you go I have no remorse
 Your selfish actions I will not endorse
 How many women have had a love demise
 You're lying...

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Categories: malfunctioning, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Late Night Thoughts
Sometimes life feels permanent like the stench of liquor on alcoholics 
Trapped in a monotonous existence ever searching for an escape 
Because I'm sick of...

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Categories: malfunctioning, angst, me, life, me,
Form: Free verse
He Has No Clear Professional Jealousy
Bruce Wayne is not alone in hating Superman. The United States government is none too pleased with the last son of Krypton leveling large parts...

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Categories: malfunctioning, creation,
Form: Free verse
Melancholia
Mournful melancholy makes her miserable, 
Murky moods move her to morosity, 
She's miffed and morbid, her mind is mourning, 
Moping about in mellow melancholia, 
Marred...

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Categories: malfunctioning, cry, depression, sad,
Form: Alliteration
*****Sapience Sapience
He was born with a bushy round follicle-free head
and walks with two legs, because 
he is a Neanderthal(1) mutant,

for he is a mutational product, 
he...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: malfunctioning, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Standard Man
Fully standard man
Come straight out the can
Right into the pan 
According to plan 

Sports fan
Sensible sedan 
Don't ask how it began 
Sleepwalking man 

In some...

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Categories: malfunctioning, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs