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Best Problem Child Poems

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Problem Child
Sullen and defensive
(what's it to you?)
quietly disappearing

what difference does it make?
[tiny] and inferior
beaten into believing the propaganda
from [un]reliable sources

Her heart knew [stuck in survival mode]
nothing...

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Categories: problem child, angst, childhood, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mooku: Haikus On the Moon: With Cliff Notes
1. Lunar Perspective #1

month long day and night
also sees earth wax and wane
no season penchant


2. Lunar Perspective #2

moon's sun mimics earth's
earth pirouettes on star stage
sun’s...

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Categories: problem child, life, love, moon, science,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member - Science Universe -
Mysteries revealed and mysteries solved
                    ...

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Categories: problem child, history, mystery, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member People of Faith
It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.

After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?

Our faith...

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Categories: problem child, culture, earth day, education,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Why Humanity Fears the Dark
What lies in the dark recess of the human mind,
That place where we dare not travel.
Behind our daily masks of illusions,
To another realm of thought...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: problem child, adventure, fantasy, halloween, holiday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Seven Blessings
God bless little angels brought unto me,
Watch over them beneath heavens grace.
My first of seven blessings most precious gift,
Treasures hearts keepsakes.
Number one the oldest, my...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: problem child, child, dark, dedication, children,
Form: Free verse
Born On the Goldhawk Road One
I was born at the tail end of the Goldhawk Road
Which runs through Shepherds Bush 
Like an artery, 
And in the mid 1960s,
Served as one...

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Categories: problem child, culture, england, history, london,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy Logic
He was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a...

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Categories: problem child, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
To Know
No one seems to understand 
Why I can’t let you go. 
If only it were that easy 
And there were things I didn’t know

I’ve looked...

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Categories: problem child, sad, seasons, sympathy,
Form: Ballad
In the Way

Step aside, bruh ...
you’re in the way
Can’t you see that progress
is being stymied ... moving backwards
not forward
Hard earned labor now taken away
Constitutional high jinx:
changing the...

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Categories: problem child, society, truth, urban,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Just Wrong
JUST WRONG 

Throughout my life’s journey, I chanced to see,
Many things to this day that bother me,

The things that chose the path of my destiny,
the...

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Categories: problem child, change, community, corruption, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Have You Ever
Have you ever had days where it’s felt like your heart wasn’t working right? Maybe it felt like your chest was feeling really tight? Have...

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Categories: problem child, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Harsh Lesson
against my desk I lay my weary head
ailing of sully thoughts.
the prediction of an angry ruler,
a shadow above me.
dreading to rise and face the wrath,
the...

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Categories: problem child, childhood, education, school
Form: Free verse
Fight With Me
To leave 
Or to stay
To fight
Or destroy

Never meant 
Never intend
Never wanted
It all to fall

So it starts
So it ends
so its racing to defend

Angry words left unsaid
Lonely...

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Categories: problem child, friend, hero, inspirational, teen,
Form: Free verse
Santa Claus and the 7 Dwarfs
I bet you didn't know that the 7 dwarfs
Used to work for Santa Claus
Yep, they all got fired from the north pole
Cause they kept breaking...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: problem child, funny
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs