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Best Misbegotten Poems

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Premium Member Black Magic Woman
Madame Mistress, ebonies princess,
Southern comforts golden jewel,
A golden beauty down south does dwell.
She hides many secrets beneath her,
Glittering mask of mystery's mystic spells.
A dark priestess...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Edger All Poe
Our dark founding father, of American literature,
A sinister beacon of darkness, lighting the way
Into the darkened abyss of mankind’s soul.
Within the galleria of madness, he...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, character, dark, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Private Conversation
Father it’s me again. It’s been too long between talks
Days, years: restless lost wasted years
Choices made based on greed, pride, arrogance and misbegotten dreams
It’s difficult...

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Categories: misbegotten, faith, introspectionlost, lost, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Case You Missed It - Revisit
My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, writing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Dark Side of Liberty
Dark denizens of the night
    gathering in ill-lit backrooms
      haunts of the night
 
  They tease...

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Categories: misbegotten, america, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse



On the Edge
Misbegotten pair, 
two-faced condemnation, 
the seduction of sweet solace 
or the inarticulation of despair. 

Uneasy 'neath the spell of peerless rapture, 
false respite from the...

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Categories: misbegotten, philosophy
Form: Quatrain
Guts
Need a pill
Wanna die
Wanna hear
Pounding nails

Shut my eyes
Close the lid
Let it end
Please let it end

In my guts
My filthy guts
Poison rise
In my head
Dark abides
In my soul
Tantalize
Wanna...

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Categories: misbegotten, depression,
Form: Free verse
Forsaken
Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, 
with no...

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Categories: misbegotten, death
Form: Verse
The Hourglass
I wish that I had cared enough,
to mention once or twice

That what I wanted now has changed,
old virtues turned to vice

The past left misbegotten,
and future...

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Categories: misbegotten, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Frankenstein
What am I, a product of a mad man's obsession to play God?
A cross breed’s creature between medicine and science?
For the whole of my parts...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, betrayal, conflict, confusion, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seeker
THE SEEKER

A weaving’s blending is spun within the soil of the discontent,
Legends are the roots of cultures, stories woven within the 
Fabrics of societies, but...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, betrayal, conflict, dedication, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shipwrecked
What a misbegotten soul am I, to be lost upon isolation’s paradise,
Marooned on desolation’s tropical island of plenty, except for
Human championship, humanities driftwood a captured...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, adventure, conflict, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Yellow Head of the Hummingbird
The Yellow Head of the Hummingbird


Yellow hummingbird head,
Lopped off by feline fangs,
And left as a gift
On the welcome mat.
Short sharp black beak
Arches downward hopelessly
Like the...

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Categories: misbegotten, introspection, lost, lost, yellow,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Devil's Windchimes
THE DEVIL'S WIND-CHIMES

Beneath the dark abyss, in the realm beyond
Hell's blackened gates, a haunting music is played,
It is a sounding's evil of supernatural rhythm, with...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misbegotten, dark, evil, fear, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Novelist James Hadley Chase
Bring me a cup of Java,  honey, and put some coffee in the water, will you?...

Whoa there! Bet you can feel the withering sarcasm...

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Categories: misbegotten, community, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs