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Best Mephitic Poems

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Mephitic
What malodorous substance do you use,
to cover the lies you tell?
Do you not even notice now, 
the way it  gives off a smell?
It corrupts...

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Categories: mephitic, allusion, betrayal, bird, death,
Form: Quatrain



Puzzled Pieces
It was a dazzling day.
In the park where we gathered.
I watched the sprinkler spray.
Whilst Oleander got lathered.

A pierce of minty laughter.
Came from my mother.
The day,...

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Categories: mephitic, confusion, dark, family, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When I Was Drunk and Wanted Big Words
We are all improbable in our own way, 
and who can augur the future?  
I never could have laid out my course in advance,...

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Categories: mephitic, addiction, drink, earth, wine,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Scary Nightmare
Two hands spread out, firmly against a glass door,
Silently terrified in a sheer black shadow.
The room is frozen, it’s cold and asleep, 
Through the window...

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Categories: mephitic, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Booming Night
Bang! Bang!
A roaring sound erupted from downstairs awakening my sister and I, 
Silence over filled the house.
My sister and I laid in our bed immobile,...

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Categories: mephitic, cry, dark, daughter, deep,
Form: Lay



Sepsis
I feel you like a gaping wound,
A great fetid, gangrenous maw
That will never close.
I feel  you eating me alive, 
Your disease,
Penetrating brain and bone
Psyche...

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Categories: mephitic, addiction, dark, desire, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Fires of Tehama County
~ A rage ignites the azure mountain sky
as affirmations crumble with resent,
your ashes weep, then settle in a sigh
still mourning from their sorrowing descent.
 ...

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Categories: mephitic, america, angst, fire, ,
Form: Sonnet
Flashback
Once upon a time 
I would stare through the injured heart of my family 
With faiths of a passionate shepherd and eyes of an avid...

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Categories: mephitic, growing up,
Form: I do not know?
Panicking the Pandemic
Deciphered deceptions that the summer brings,
As the cathedrals crumble for the corona Kings…
Units ubiquitous unleashed with sweeping strings,
Infectious isolation internal as the contagious clings…

The wounded...

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Categories: mephitic, conflict, confusion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Birth of Me
So long now, drifting ... stumbling in dark nightmarish puddles of ire

   This numb, walking-zombie existence, in-and-out of Hell like a spinning door



All...

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Categories: mephitic, addiction, appreciation, life, pain,
Form: Free verse
Broken Wings!
Trapped within this cage of flesh, a sparrow

A soul, always longing to flee its confines, to soar so free

Born, tied to its walls of mephitic...

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Categories: mephitic, epiclonging,
Form: I do not know?
The Stapelia Star
far
from
a 
flowering, 
fluorescent,
flourishing,
&
pleasantly
fragrant
facsimile of
flora herself,
the
stapelia star &
the
s. pulchella,
the 
s. hirsute &
no
one
can
forget
the
s. variegate
(that special
phosphorescent
“beauty’)---
all have
gained
the nickname
“the rotten-
egg plant”
for a reason.

avec a 
coriaceous
constitution,
the stapelia 
spits out a...

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Categories: mephitic, lifeautumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let's See What's In the Laundry Hamper- -
Let's SEE What's in the laundry hamper?

" One a soiled cloth diapers
a fierce icky stinkysocks
some noxious obnoxious unclean towels
horrid stinking under-shorts
unappetizing horrible awful grubby baby...

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Categories: mephitic, analogy, confusion, endurance, fate,
Form: List
Premium Member Humanity Is No More
Atomic bombs are dropped on babies
Humanity is thrown out of the door
Humanity is dead. Humanity is no more
There are too many aggressive and demoniac atrocities
Wars...

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Categories: mephitic, abuse, anger, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandeur of Fall

Fall leaves tumble to their slipshod decay,
oozing from the crowns of tedious trees.
A mephitic scrunch with their latter sway,
as they are raked into wide whisking...

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Categories: mephitic, analogy, appreciation, autumn, beauty,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs