Best Misfired Poems
Glimpse of Heaven...How curious, remote, the pain seemed now
As a fly on the ceiling, she looked down
Her body below in a hospital gown
Incessant beeps emitted by machines
With blips and waves on their monitor scr......
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Categories:
misfired, faith, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards...The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish actions.
In a robbery way out in Long Beach
E......
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Categories:
misfired, death, humorous, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Limerick Crochetes: Once Fukushima Lady Uranium...Limerick crochetés: Once Fukushima Lady Uranium
Once Fukushima Lady Uranium
Madly in love with Hanford Plutonium
Sent him hot-kissed missile
Twice Hiroshima smile:
“R.S.V.P. Pluto to Uranus ......
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Categories:
misfired, allegory, environment, humor, longing,
Form:
Limerick
A Beast of Chirality...I blink my eyes and then the world is gone.
Open once again to see some peons upon the lawn.
They came to hear the Lion yawn and swipe a wife by dawn.
That's why I keep my pride and believe......
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Categories:
misfired, anger, conflict, courage, hyperbole,
Form:
Free verse
A Mother's Lament...I dream of snowflakes
they are each identical
my mind is frozen
Two-years-old and contorted, monstrously white-eyed, bloody-lipped and snorting,
gasping for air, as in drowning, but there is no......
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Categories:
misfired, birth, child, grief, mother,
Form:
Haibun
Old Old Fireworks Stored....
Old old fireworks stored
Gave permission to use up...
......
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Categories:
misfired, family, imagination, introspection, life,
Form:
Haiku
Off With a Bang...Off With A Bang
When the chinese used fireworks for celebrations
They used a black powder called gunpowder, it has two
Practical uses for making harmess fireworks or creating
Explosi......
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Categories:
misfired, history,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
She Writes Poetry...She wrote poems that would have made Bukowski blush.
I read one once, and twice over again, the fourth time I was in love
With her best-friend, for which it was about, well, more so her friend's ... ......
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Categories:
misfired, crazy, love hurts, lust,
Form:
Free verse
Mythological Blues...Sometimes, when I step on holy land, my skin breathes flame.
The earth is a bouncing betty.
What sun am I, born of war, drowning in blood;
that pools like mercury?
Thunder bolts in the brain,
messag......
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Categories:
misfired, visionary, water, water, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Hilton Hotel With Rats...All I hear of Hilton Hotels is terrible,
making mistakes but taking the money,
slanderous to staff now that ain’t funny,
acting all proper job
when a proper nob,
discrimination I can prove
......
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Categories:
misfired, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Blossoms...All England, blinking nervously, is out!
A little mild spell, much to our surprise,
has brightened frowsy February skies.
We sniff the air with nostrils schooled in doubt.
Baffled by balm, ......
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Categories:
misfired, romantic,
Form:
Sonnet
Love Lesson 101...Father Time is to love
As a breeze is to fire
It enkindles the great
Extinguishes the small
Swirls ashes into smoke
Drifting up like prayers
From some abandoned souls
Wounded by an arrow
Misf......
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Categories:
misfired, growing up, happiness, heartbreak,
Form:
Thrust...A sword thrust,
parried before it’s
finale;
a pistol misfired
aimed at;
my immortal thoughts
held at bay
by the;
a wasted life
wondering,
please my love,
for me;
AIM STRAIGHT......
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Categories:
misfired, love,
Form:
Free verse
Lead Cancer...
Roman pro-life Pilate politicians
got their abortion trigger finger
on the gun
Sending public notice of more bullet crucifixions,
a Surgeon General quarantine warning:
Lead cancer epi......
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Categories:
misfired, cancer, death, symbolism, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Boom...B- Ballistics blast burst
O- Outbreak
O- Outbursts
M- Miss detonation Misfired
4/22/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018......
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Categories:
misfired, analogy, destiny, engagement, fire,
Form:
Acrostic