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Best Retch Poems

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Me Thinking, B Thinking
I’m thinking of the letter “B”
    So close and yet so far
It seems a bit unfair to me
    ...

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Categories: retch, fun, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme



Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6
Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments, 
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And...

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Categories: retch, adventure, character, gothic, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schrodinger's Monster
Don't open your eyes!
          Horrid sounds - screams and scratching,
     an odor...

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Categories: retch, analogy, emotions, fear, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member strange fruit -
in a dream -
Mississippi, the 50's
lone hike on a sweltry spring-tide day
rolling fields of cotton and wheat
cauliflower clouds like lazy old men
creeping across a buttery...

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Categories: retch, allusion, hate, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispers of the Stranded Soul
Written: June 24, 2023
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Sadness erupts; who is suffering sails?
In the depths where hope once dwelled.
A vessel that was gone, love's dying exhale
Lost by the cruel...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retch, allegory, angst, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Elevator Man
Elevator Man 

A wrinkled hand
rotates Time's worn handle of half circles
giving arrest to past rides awakened

Up and down
listening
hearing
never forgetting

Watch your step

Ornate iron confinement
charming for youth
insulation...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retch, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Terror
Eternal sleep does not now assuage me, mistress,
I dine on your living flesh, 
With no thought of saving, storing, salvaging
The little evils you possess

I dare...

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Categories: retch, anger, anxiety, art, desire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Facts of Life
one thing you have to learned is to let go all of the frustration learned to let it flow 
letting go is not the easy...

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Categories: retch, conflict, confusion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Evolution of No 1 Tu Love - 'Warning: Depressive'
EVOL UT I ON ... NO 1 TU LOVE
(The Eden Agenda III)


I have loved most everyone, yet so few have loved me back.

So much good...

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Categories: retch, christian, depression, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
Ugly Shell, Inner Beauty
There once was a seed a little seed
A seed that was thought to be ugly indeed,
It went one day and hopped in the ground
hoping and...

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Categories: retch, beauty, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Big Jack
BIG JACK

“Big Jack’s Chevrolet!”
That’s Big Jack talking his cars
He is pathetic!
Jack has a hyena voice
Uses hands to make a point

It’s one of two things –
He’s...

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Categories: retch, funny
Form: Tanka
So Long, Osama
This here is a poem
I wrote it just because
I had a funny punchline
I don't remember what it was

It was something about Osama
That is all that...

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Categories: retch, death, dedication, food, funeral,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Loveless Last Rites
Stranded, sorrows billow suffering sails,
Surf snaps at broken hull's plea; 'swallow me'!
Lost love, life black-white, living color pales,
Tears sew sad tapestry on stirred sea.

Surf snaps...

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Categories: retch, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
The Virile Knight
The virile Knight gives evil eye to all 
And champion to all who missed the call, 
A long forgotten conflict ripped our soul 
The virile...

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Categories: retch, war, war, light, light,
Form: Narrative
Sad News From Home
Brothers Levi, Jordan, Matthews, Joe and Jedden, 
You were sheer shocked as did Sister Hussein
That even this day we can still adjure, argue, advocate,
And advance...

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Categories: retch, political, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme

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