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Best Mortifying Poems

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Premium Member Mortifying Dream
My nude statue stood on the courthouse lawn

     Cast in bronze it caused most folks to yawn

    ...

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Categories: mortifying, funny
Form: Limerick



Premium Member You Are Water
You, are water~
fluid moods
overflowing extremes.

I dip my toes 
testing,
should I dive in..?
This time,
will  y o u  let me sink or swim?
Have you ...

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Categories: mortifying, abuse, conflict, fear, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Girls and Kittens
It seems that saucy little girls are rather smitten,
By the playful antics of a cuddly, furry kitten!
Whether she teases it with a tantalizing feather,
Or when...

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Categories: mortifying, animals, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Is Grandma
We decided to be elegant
Have breakfast outside on the veranda
A gorgeous Florida day

Where is mom?
Our mother asked.
No one knew.

What is a toaster doing on the...

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Categories: mortifying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member To What Profound Penance Owe You This Boon, O Yashotha
To what profound penance owe you this boon, O! Yashotha! Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subbha Iyer’s enna thavam seithanai – yashOthA by T. Wignesan

To what...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortifying, endurance, god, jealousy, religious,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Uh, Tower, We Have a Problem Here
They were nearing LaGuardia Airport when the pilot felt a sudden urge.
He told the copilot to grab the yoke saying his bladder he must purge!
He...

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Categories: mortifying, funny, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Damn Divisive Demagogic Derelict
Das Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization

extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that...

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Categories: mortifying, america, conflict, grief, howl,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Computer Malfunction
This bewildering computer of mine just gives me fits!
I panic when the consarned thing goes on the fritz!
I peruse the baffling manual but that doesn't...

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Categories: mortifying, computer-internetcomputer, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Tale of the Pretty Talker
That's where her house used to stand
smack dab in the middle of a dead end road
The prettiest talker you'd ever want to hear
Known for her...

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Categories: mortifying, evil, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Daddy Demands
EarthMama Invites

Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line 
extinguished.

Because all RightBrain...

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Categories: mortifying, bullying, caregiving, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Alone
Suspended . . . tormented, in a mind so distant
I arrive at the said destination with a sigh. . .
What I expect is mortifying
What lies...

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Categories: mortifying, absence, hurt, i miss
Form: Free verse
Symmetry Entrancement
Reflections haunt me,
Mortifying me…longing to be free…
Drifting away
Go ahead and throw up your explanation points!!
Raise your voice at me again
Give me all you got
Get me...

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Categories: mortifying, anger, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lady of Virtue
Marking yourself in the glow of service 
lady of virtue are you along significance-height
shining beyond worldly stardom...
while becoming a blessing by God's grace.

Overcoming poverty's grip
your...

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Categories: mortifying, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Poison
Its just one feeling, a simple normal emotion; ....Every one feels it, I think.....But I can’t help this chill from crawling up my spine.... Implanting poisonous...

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Categories: mortifying, abuse, anger, bullying, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Prayer-Time Memories
Prayer Time 

Childhood memories with bleeding prayers, with scalps on my knees from praying so constantly.
Believing in the truth as best as I could as...

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Categories: mortifying, abuse, forgiveness, prayer, today,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things