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Best Pestilential Poems

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Premium Member Pandemic Pantoum
In this pestilential year time forgot
behind maskless faces false facts hold sway,
it’s hard to write nice, when our world is not 
what should a poet...

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Categories: pestilential, change, future,
Form: Pantoum



South of the United States Border
South Of The (United States) Border...
(Reigns A Welter Of Disorder)

Caravans comprising multitudinous
     peoples plodded a steady course
analogous to iron filings drawn...

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Categories: pestilential, abuse, america, break up,
Form: Ballad
A Little List
With apologies to Sir W.S. Gilbert

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list--I've got a little list.
Of...

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Categories: pestilential, hilarious, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Cockroach
Across the white of table bread and yellow plated cheese
Upon the black fictitious grapes, it wheezes its disease
It crawls, its scrawny legs cluttering the revulsion's...

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Categories: pestilential, allegoryme, insect, me,
Form: Verse
Nostril Damn Mess
The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell 
   can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous 
...

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Categories: pestilential, angst, anxiety, conflict, creation,
Form: Light Verse



'n Anchor Roach Ment Inc
day and night Blattaria of various shapes and sizes 
scuttle with incandescent 
   after glow as flashing blur rises
to fill every quarter of...

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Categories: pestilential, baptism, betrayal, crazy, environment,
Form: Free verse
Suicidal Ideation
Deliberation about courting death rooted
throughout mine psyche fueling sinister chortle
at least since bout with anorexia nervosa,
but... maybe ginned blood,
sans umbilical cord transfused in utero aortal,

though...

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Categories: pestilential, 7th grade, absence, conflict,
Form: Bio
The Moral Mortgage of Mice and Men
The moral mortgage of mice and men 

Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known 
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned...

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Categories: pestilential, adventure, animal, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
Perdition Be Damned
Perdition Be Damned!

Body electric zapped
lower gastrointestinal tract
wracked with wretchedness
pitted, rocked, and tortured
severe muscle spasms cramp
deathly hallowed deliverance

beseech divine creator to exorcise relief
any panacea trumpeted vetoed
pestilential...

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Categories: pestilential, atheist, death, father, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Pain
Penetrative prodigious plundering pestilential prod of pain
Ambiguous avarice amassing astounding avalanche of ache
Injuriously instigating incessant inconsolable irritation
Nattering numbness needling nerves to nail the heart with...

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Categories: pestilential, fear, health,
Form: Acrostic
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash
Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”

As Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got brilliant idea 
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish...

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Categories: pestilential, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Demonic Art
Blood fluxing in my veins stained the DARK canvass as pigments
              ...

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Categories: pestilential, art, death
Form: Ekphrasis
Last of First's
tic…tic…tic…

part 1…

today is your last day
a last of firsts…
all is the first ever done
on a first…last day
the crimson jumps
the pigs in their pen
drenched in deaths...

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© Shaun Hull  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pestilential, death,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son...

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Categories: pestilential, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Husband Feebly Tried To Smite Figuratively
Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, modestly,
and zestfully) to...

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Categories: pestilential, betrayal, conflict, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs