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Best Pitchfork Poems

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Premium Member I Got a Letter From the Devil
(Hello, my sweet friend!)

Speaks in unknown tongues 
Nevertheless it will consume
Ask for food, 
A sweet drink 
The hunger and thirst are real
It's pitchfork aims at...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitchfork, anger, anxiety, character, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Betrayed
Once significant and alluring, your luster faded.
Perhaps it was the treachery in hollow eyes jaded.

Was there ever a light
in a soul dark as night?

Promises of...

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Categories: pitchfork, jealousy, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plentitude of Pies
I stepped into a cow pie, back a year or so ago, and I did fuss and cry!
Or so I am told… Then I found...

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Categories: pitchfork, change, conflict, family, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Why I Gamble
The reason why I gamble,
I ought to tell the truth.
Those squalid tales I spun before…
Well, don’t go seeking proof.

The one about the heart op
And my...

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Categories: pitchfork, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grant Wood: American Gothic
stoic or mourning
in a time of depression
or keepers of secrets
with a hostile divide?

why daylit drawn curtains
made from fabric she's wearing
and 'mother-in-law's tongue'
on the porch to...

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Categories: pitchfork, america, farm, symbolism,
Form: Ekphrasis



Acting American

Frankie boy, go get my gun
Here comes those 
pitchfork carrying citizens

They’re so scary angry and uninformed
Holding torches, they plan on 
doing more than burn crosses...

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Categories: pitchfork, allusion, humorous, satire, violence,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dragon the Soap Opera
Dragon wants in the movies. Honestly! He's a great actor! Just look at him!
Doesn’t he look so sweet and innocent... See! Told you he’s a...

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Categories: pitchfork, fantasy, fun, hilarious, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Ham Versus Hog
Let me tell you a story
From a time gone by
The tale of a greedy butcher
And a pig that could fly

In the little village of Piddle...

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© Ariella Ru  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitchfork, animal, fantasy, flying, food,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Homage To St Michael
A Knight from the vast Kingdom
of The King of Holy Throne.
Michael slept within a castle
on beds of peat moss, and of loam.   ...

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Categories: pitchfork, dedication, faith, passion, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dear Grandpa
Dear Grandpa,

Are you aware that you can still get social security income if you act now?
Did you know that Capital One and Visa want to...

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Categories: pitchfork, family, farm, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton
Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay,...

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Categories: pitchfork,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Portrait of a Winter Farm
Steel-gray clouds have filled the sky
To linger, on a cheerless day
Laying ice upon a weary world
Of rolling hills, and pastures deep

Small herds seek shelter among...

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Categories: pitchfork, nature, work,
Form: Free verse
How To Win That Man
perfectionism: the fragrance.
be an ideal vial
of toilet water.
discover little dainties 
in pock-marked
hand-held
facades.
purge your persona 
with the devil’s 
details.

flippancy: the fashion.
be a toothpick-skewered
single-serving 
euphemism.
be sampled
and rimmed...

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Categories: pitchfork, angst, satire, social
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Color of Butter
While closing my eyes, I return once again
to an image that nestles at the foot of the mountains
Snow crowns San Jacinto as it shadows the...

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Categories: pitchfork, child, childhood, home, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil In You
Satan is pictured with a pitchfork, tail and horns
If you’re doomed to his hell, hot coals your feet will warm
But when people blame their actions...

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Categories: pitchfork, faith
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs