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Best Retorting Poems

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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...

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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...

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Categories: retorting, adventure
Form: Blank 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...

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© Zack Dicks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retorting, blessing, fish, religious,
Form: Ballade
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...

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Categories: retorting, inspirational
Form: Free verse
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...

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



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...

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

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Categories: retorting, universe,
Form: Couplet
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...

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Categories: retorting, psychological,
Form: Personification
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...

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Categories: retorting, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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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...

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

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

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Categories: retorting, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, school, teenfire,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Whispers Beneath the Moon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
whispers miles apart
beneath the same golden moon—
retorting echoes
...

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Categories: retorting, moon,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things