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Best Raving Mad Poems

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A Wife's Advice Goes Awry
They’re playing bingo in the lounge bar,
between ten and dinner time,
pensioners arrive from near and far,
to try and win a bingo dime.
I’m watching from me...

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Categories: raving mad, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Vicious Wicked Cuts of Dead Dreams and Reality
The Vicious Wicked Cuts Of Dead Dreams And Reality

The lake, its long, wide sandy beach, called to me
urgent messages, saying feel this in my seeking...

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Categories: raving mad, art, break up, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Raven, the Crow and Sherlock
Smoke filled the little river lounge
The ceiling fans twirling to jazzy notes of the band
Music weaved its way amongst the crowd
Whiskey warmed my soul
As my...

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Categories: raving mad, bird, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Start Singing To the Choir
Start Singing to the Choir

What would you really rather do?
Have delightful dream that does come true;
Maybe a great game will want to go to
Where all...

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Categories: raving mad, humorous, religious,
Form: Couplet
My Sheep (Parody of the Beatles' "she Loves You")
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa”
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa”
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa”

Farm country’s quite a place
Greener space and friendly...

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Categories: raving mad, animals, funny, parody, song-lyriclife,
Form: Lyric



Collateral Damage
Cajole me in the right frame of mind
For I'm vexed not because of
Personal issues but because of the
Morbid, abstract canvas of life
I'm subjected to witness,...

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Categories: raving mad, children, innocence, political, war,
Form: Prose
Nit Up
If you are the mother of Vlad
Your heart is increasingly sad
Vlad just wants more ground
The whole world has found
That bugger is stark raving mad!...

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Categories: raving mad, international, political,
Form: Limerick
Speak To Me
There are lots of ‘normal’ people that you love to meet and greet,
then there’s the ones when they get near, you try to cross the...

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Categories: raving mad, community, judgement, sad, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Moons
Two Moons

‘I am the Goddess of Hellfire in spitting disguise when I travel alone and 
         ...

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Categories: raving mad, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To the Moon
Oh, thou “Lesser Light,” created by the Master’s voice on the fourth day of creation to provide light at night.
Your greater companion, the sun, marks...

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Categories: raving mad, creation, nature, religious,
Form: Ode
Premium Member I Wish It Were So Easy
I sat with my tea pot and tea in hand,
watching the afternoon news.
It always offered evidence, 
that the government,
was raving mad.

My mind, always boggled, 
by...

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Categories: raving mad, metaphor, poems, poetry, political,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lucky
When a fetus or baby, I then could have been:

          Born to mother who died, or...

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Categories: raving mad, appreciation, blessing, fate, life,
Form: Quatrain
The Survival of the Fittest Or the Holy Bible Part 1 of 4
' The  Survival  of  The Fittest '
 (The Holy Bible)


(2 Tim. 3: 16, 17/ Matt. 4: 4)


Down Thru The Ages of Our...

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Categories: raving mad, bible,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I Hope You Suffer
I hope one day you suffer
I hope one day you burn
I hope  one day you pay
For the love you have spurned

I hope you feel...

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Categories: raving mad, anger,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Shrug It Off
A little tic, he’s crazy
Lunatic
Raving on destruction
Lunatalk

Oily black plumage
Greasy black eyes
Blurry with delusion
Dreary dark disguise

He cocks his head just so
so he can see your soul
and...

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Categories: raving mad, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things