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Best Offending Poems

Below are the all-time best Offending poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of offending poems written by PoetrySoup members


Footle..Visit To the Dentist.
The fear
In here ..
                  The chair
  ...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, satire
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Helter Skelter
"I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles 

apocalyptic revelations spinning 'round inside my head/have me tossing keep me turning wide awake upon my...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, confusion, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Will Be Leaving the Soup For a Short While
How do you define love?
I mean what is it really,

How can I feel so much love for so many 
people here that I barely know 
...because I...

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Categories: offending, farewell,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Legacy Worth Bearing
I was named ...
For my father, but not quite as you might think ...
His first name is my middle name, Richard,
And his middle name, Thomas,...

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Categories: offending, appreciation, family, father, father
Form: Free verse
Big Ego
He's got a big ego,
he keeps offending people,
he scoops the same scoop,
and round and round we loop,
until the bubble pops
and the world sees him flop,
reject...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, hip hop, life, perspective,
Form: Lyric



You
You

A...Among many  - you were chosen.
B...Because you were special from the start.

C...Charisma is part of your beauty.
D...Daring - you always are.

E...Eager always to lend...

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Categories: offending, uplifting,
Form: ABC
How Many Times
HOW    MANY    TIMES ?


Now I’m a commonsense-o-holic
But when I was a practising catholic
Confession was always a trial or a...

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Categories: offending, funny
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Then and Now
When did we lose days when truth was high,
when friend was a friend, years unending;
Government could look us in the eye.

Before hurling insults was trending,
seems...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, child, drug, pain, world,
Form: Terza Rima
Unwelcome Encore
Sometime last night, resting
inside of my home
I heard a voice singing(?!)
I was not alone

Not sure what to do
I just tried to ignore...
But he went on...

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Categories: offending, funny, humor, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To the Top
Trek poles wending
Peak ascending
Trail keeps bending
Effort spending
Gnats offending

Stormclouds rending
Cool rain sending
Flowers tending
Clean air lending
Sunshine trending

Now descending
Hikers blending
Smiles attending
All befriending
Hike soon ending

Sleep descending
Sweet dreams sending
Muscles mending
Smiles...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, mountains, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
Never Afraid of Mermaid In Parade
never were afraid
we live the movie "Mermaid"
comes with a parade

was not offending 
movie had a great ending
to you poem sending

about will worry
away we all did...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Growing Up, La - Part 1
- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - - 

My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)  
As such...

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Categories: offending, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah

His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For...

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Categories: offending, assonance, bible, christian, dance,
Form: Narrative
The Painted Desert
Mornings fade into evenings, evenings slip into nights.
Day colors spill from their pails, then seep into
valleys, wind caves and shale.

The Painted Desert bleeds into a...

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© Dana Young  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offending, beauty, native american, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Spontaneity
Why should the mimic apologize? 
Where are the cupboards?
Where are the wages?
Where is the tailor? I had
no use for algebra, I knew it-
in as much...

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Categories: offending, adventure, dream, fire, memory,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs