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Premium Member I Heard They Thought Themselves Civilized
I HEARD THEY THOUGHT THEMSELVES CIVILIZED

Each grain of gorged sand
civilized people —
themselves owned; owned land.

meanwhile the steeple
looked down at the band
of loquacious stock.
each thought themselves well
in front of the rock.

Ozymandias’ plaque —
bleak headstone of hell!

Cain’s ark had a crack —
offed sand of red sea.

Cornerstone cuts...

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Categories: offed, christian, ozymandias,
Form: Rhyme
Guillotine
Robespierre, Danton and all of those 
crazy French revolution 'heroes' 
had thousands guillotined  
by La Machine that gleaned 
heads; then 'offed' their own midst their wild throes....

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offed, history,
Form: Limerick
The Barmaid and the Pedlar
There's an old English song called  All Jolly Fellows That Follow The PLow.  The tune works fine as is for the chorus and with the verses if the tune for the 3rd and 4th lines is repeated for th 5th and 6th. Well,...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offed, happy, humorous, me, old,
Form: Ballad

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member As I Watch Myself Unfold Without Love
He/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking, yet undeterminate in any reason with confusion and actions to be taken latitude aforementioned. Realm provocative,...

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Categories: offed, age, appreciation, grief, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Nursery Rhymes
Porgie George, Little Jack Horner
Kissed a girl off in a corner
They were all thumbs and made her cry
Offed in prison, absent mourners.

Peter Piper, Peter Peter
Killed a girl and tried to eat her.
The cops dispatched each with a shell;
They help Charon, Limbo’s greeters.
...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offed, dark, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rubaiyat
Dead Broke
The ferryman impatiently awaits
But I lack the gold
So I ask him to wait, as I put him on hold..

I call the grim reaper hoping for a loan
He appeared soon after through my headstone
He's cloaked in all black looking bad to the bone

What is it now?...

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Categories: offed, death, funny, humorous, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
not many know he's the son of Jack Rubio
and who was he?
the guy who offed Oswald between luncheon and tea....

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Categories: offed, absence,
Form: Clerihew
After the Vietnams and the Me Leis
After the Vietnams and the Me Leis
Steel skull
Stone eye
Blooming jungle rot
Itching on the crotch
Jack scratches the trigger of his M14
Kisses the golden egg
And throws like the Babe.
Jack is now back from hell and trying to cope
In fourteen breathing, and moving pieces
Held with a pound of...

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Categories: offed, america, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: Epic
Azrael's Aquatic Acre
The pulchritudinous aquatic lair,

Of resplendent melancholy depth,

A place damaged beyond repair,

Teeming of glazed ghosts of death.

 

Hither and yon an offed world 
lingers,

The alluring charm of the 
cadaverous expanse,

Where bony-ice settles deep in 
frigid fingers,

A bloodless shore of gothic 
romance.

 

Eyes burning with a copper glance,

Vermilion waves wash...

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Categories: offed, death
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ard Workin Lad
Bloomin Eck,Bloomin Eck !
I just got mi-sen a job.
A mista wants his coal in,
An offed me a bob.

He told me if a hurry up,
A can chop some stiks an all.
But if tha wants another tanna,
A gorra mek um small.

He watched me gerrin coal in,
He anded...

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Categories: offed, fun, funny, work, youth,
Form: Rhyme
I Lost the Guy of My Dreams
You promised me forever,
you broke the deal,
you told me that you loved me
was it ever real?

I'm out of mind,
I'm searching for love but i can't find
I was outside in the dark,
In a great park.

Nobody was there
So alone
But I don't fear.

I've been waiting for someone to...

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Categories: offed, angst, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost
Form:
Premium Member Sweetly Full Pantry
And so it begins … my crew will over treat themselves to ample chocolate for I have just stuffed our pantry sweetly-full again:

No one will know why the stocked, offered sweets, meant to last 
about a week were otherwise offed before two full days passed;

All...

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Categories: offed, anxiety, candy, chocolate, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Macab'z Poetic Cant
.

           Slipping twixt mine dukes digits
                         hern pretty
   ...

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Categories: offed, allegory, dark,
Form: Free verse
Oh Jesus, There Went All the Money
Don’t need new sneakers
‘cause you’ll never find your feet
Don’t need no lock ‘n’ key
You got the worst house on the street
You gambled everything
And got busted, broke and beat
Your luck was runny
Now you got no money

Don’t bother makin’ up yo mind
You got no choice
You got no...

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Categories: offed, america, anxiety, cheer up,
Form: Verse
Tricked In Treating
Like a zombie at a town picnic
Scarfing brains in my room, like a shtick
My costume I offed
For I retched and coughed
Mom said, "That was the ultimate trick!"

October 30th, 2019

9
9
5
5
9...

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Categories: offed, candy, halloween, kid, mom,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things