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Best Prick Up Poems

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Premium Member The Rose
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls    that...

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Categories: prick up, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: prick up, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prick up, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Dormant Decession

I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout...

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Categories: prick up, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Welcome To the World of Worldly
Welcome to the world of Worldly 
where we feast all night.
All those things you once thought wrong -
here they all are right!

Worldly’s citizens are many.
Membership...

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Categories: prick up, evil,
Form: Quatrain



Like a Tree In the Desert
Prick me with your vivid green awareness
Let the white pins that needle me
Diminish into their foggy sham

The bridal wreath that scented our commitment
Now doused in...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prick up, absence, anger, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thorn and Petal

The thorn asked the scarlet petal,

"Why is it gardeners admire your beauty
and are intoxicated by your fragrance,
yet they fear a prick from me?"

The petal replied,

"because...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prick up, analogy, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Rhapsody In Red
When morning breaks in shades of wine...
  with claret skies to blush the dawn...
     I will stretch and yawn, and...

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Categories: prick up, color, happy, nature, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are a Thorn, Borne Deep In My Heart
You are a thorn, borne deep in my heart
   The prick that sticks me with each breath I take
A tether, whether I want...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prick up, pain,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Oops - Please Join In the Collaboration
Sue dated an old bloke called Darren
He said surgery'd made him barren
But one errant sperm
Escaped from his ‘worm’
Now Sue’s had a baby named Sharon!

05~24~17

WRITTEN BY...

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Categories: prick up, baby, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Benedict Donald
The White House harbors an orange traitor
Benedict Donald, science-hater
He never met a fact
He didn't try to whack
This prick puts the 'dick' in Dictator!

The obtuse ogre...

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Categories: prick up, anti bullying, community, political,
Form: Limerick
My City
Of the Gods own country
of this paradise
where green and blue
merge as one
in the north is a city
that encompass the beauty
where the dream lands meet
lined by...

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Categories: prick up, beach, beauty, city, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Call Your Mother
Call Your Mother

Pick up the phone...
do it now. 
If you can.
Later if you must, 
I trust that you, 
know the difference. 

She never put you...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prick up, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Mother' Ears
A mother’s ears  - fine tuned
will pick up on her infant whimpering
          in the middle...

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Categories: prick up, mother,
Form: Free verse
Through You I Smile
I’d tell you my story, but where I’m from
it’s just a statistic
Life and death- same difference- it’s just ballistics.

So much suffering – I no longer...

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Categories: prick up, happy, words,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs