Best Retorting Poems


Do I Like You

...Do I Like You? 

Do I like the amount you put into my mouth? 
Do I like how you wash me in the shower? 
Do I like how you put my clothes on - strangely? 
Do I like your order for my bracelet, th......

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Categories: retorting, angst, betrayal, body, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme

What Could Have Been

...met a dame 
On a maine 
Waltz through my lane 
Pretty as fine clay 
Molded for a potter 

To cherish 
So as not to perish 
An honourable damsel 
.....My intuiton 
Precedes me... 

leap of faith 
To s......

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Categories: retorting, adventure
Form: Blank verse

The Title

...The Poetry Of Friends
  The Music Of Love

The Beginning Of The End
  Death From Above

The Unwritten Word
  Wuthering Heights

All Truth Now Unheard
  A Thief In The Night

Advise And Co......

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Categories: retorting, universe,
Form: Couplet

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Cain & Abel

...Adam & Eve had Cain
then they were blessed
with Abel, two sons.
 
Abel was the herdsman
while Cain was a farmer
Cain bringing an offering to the Lord
of the fruits of the ground;
Abel, meanwh......

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Categories: retorting, inspirational
Form: Free verse

The Goddess of the Severn

...Pulses drown saturated elvers 
As a crescent delivers it's catch
White bellied roaches slap and disperse
Pierced and broken suckers latch
Flushed forearms lock with a match
Bleached fingers curl......

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Categories: retorting, blessing, fish, religious,
Form: Ballade

In My Dream

...I wish to clasp and embrace you very close,
Rip open my throbbing heart,
And share love with you, my Rose
And never breathe moments apart

Often I visualize you all through the day
And feel I can see......

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Categories: retorting, day, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Hyena

...Feral Exchange

I am well spotted and nasty and do not mind that description

Will gather my fortune whatever is your inappropriate depiction

Dig my teeth into your body and soul straight down......

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Categories: retorting, psychological,
Form: Personification

Infamy

...Rolling in faster than I can respond
Trying to keep up with what’s going on
Feels like it’s swirling out of control
Everyone wanting a piece of my soul

Can’t breathe without someone reporting
......

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Categories: retorting, introspection, life, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Couplet

In My Dreams

...I wish to clasp and embrace you very close,
Rip open my throbbing heart,
And share love with you, my Rose
And never breathe moments apart

Often I visualize you all through the day
And feel I can see......

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Categories: retorting, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme

March 12th

...Too long
I have put this off for too long
I have said to myself to say this aloud
yet I contradict myself 
by putting it off to the next day
No more
so please stick with me
and endure my words......

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Categories: retorting, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Itching Legs and Yahweh

...itching legs & yahweh

the young boy had told his mother
he thought he was allergic to ivory soap,
in fact, he’d told her the night before---
but come sunday morning
all the care in the world couldn’......

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Categories: retorting, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Confrontation

...CONFRONTATION 



My destiny angrily
 I Confronted
Complaining of the many
Obstacles she put 
On my way, 
Of all calamities and pains
She mercilessly upon
Myself inflicted 

She heard my protests   
......

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Categories: retorting, life, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse

Color Blind

...Stepped outside the sunshine hit my face,
Warm radiant rays warms up a thought of your face,
Temptation all around but I somewhat resist,
Holding retorting love that I know exist,
Orange and Red ......

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Categories: retorting, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, school, teenfire,
Form: Romanticism

Premium Member Still, Small Voice

...


1 Kings 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces t......

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Categories: retorting, appreciation, care, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
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