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Best Parasitic Poems

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


Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: parasitic, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Intolerable
I cannot tolerate the ones with haloed head
Who boast of their achievements, put on an act instead.
I cannot tolerate the perfect, always right
Who claim to...

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Categories: parasitic, abuse, betrayal, racism,
Form: Rhyme
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: parasitic, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Show Me Television
The era of catatonic self-destruction has risen yet again from boulder-blocked caves,
Whose cavernous stalactite incisors drip with the blood of thorny crowns,
Worn in punitive irony...

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Categories: parasitic, addiction, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Lost In a Thought
Lost In a Thought

Who am I...a tossed thought left to ramously rot in a sea of insanity?
What am I...a wondering wave a shackled slave a...

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Categories: parasitic, confusion, loneliness, lost,
Form: Monorhyme



Bullet Blind-Concrete
BULLET BLIND

    $$                   ...

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Categories: parasitic, conflict, fear, humanity,
Form: Concrete
The Legend of Robotoria
Upon this world in centuries long past, 
  Dwelt in woodland glades and pastures fresh, 
The spirit of Utopia was cast 
  By...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parasitic, science fiction, world, dark,
Form: Verse
Vanity Nemesis
Within the mendicant monolithic mirror
The fraudulent faces that are never nearer
For in the whimsical wonderland of Alice
Parasitic pretenders in the pompous palace

As we listen to...

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Categories: parasitic, corruption, fantasy, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Definitions
Joy and pain…
Sun and rain…
Love and disdain-
Opposites existing simultaneously
To its own detriment.
One cancelling out the other…
Parasitic and unevenly yoked.

Through thick cumulative clouds
I was the sun…
The...

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© Keith Lea  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parasitic, life
Form: Free verse
Timeless Tale
You are tragedy incarnate.
You're the whisper to the sky
That tore the world asunder
And you didn't need to try

Absolute opacity 
at maximum capacity
Fill your mind up...

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Categories: parasitic, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
PARASITE
Aint nothing in life so weak and parasitic 
As the smug self-delusional heckling critic 
Full of repressed envy with a manner most vile 
He slithers...

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Categories: parasitic,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member To a Wasp
Oh dreaded parasitic predator,
I yield to your flitting whim
and unannounced intrusion.

Innocently productive,
you carry on your quest,
unprovoked and unassuming.

But for your merited renown,
I take preemptive action
testifying...

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Categories: parasitic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire God Speaks Out
Angry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"

Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that...

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Categories: parasitic, culture, destiny, fire, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Am a Rafflesia Flower
My little grandson is sincere.
He tells of me: “Grandpa stinks!”;
He tells of me; “Grandpa’s belly is big!”;
“He looks like Santa Claus with his paunch!”;
“And stinks...

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Categories: parasitic, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Adamant Glitter
The glitter of everlasting Adamantine the tower of sunlight does 
not exceed its grandeur of brilliance. 

One of a variety immovable monument of stones thus...

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Categories: parasitic, allegory, city,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things