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Best Scandalous Poems

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Premium Member Words On the Go
Words can be whimsical, a merry-go-round
They run in a circle, they bounce up and down
They play hide-and-seek, until they are found
Look how quickly the little...

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Categories: scandalous, fun, silly, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Inner Turmoil
It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my...

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Categories: scandalous, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: scandalous, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Hey Hank, Did You Just -
hi-jack my haiku?
Hah! You jacked the wrong ku
You stole a senryu

I hide my haikus
safe and sound beneath silly
senryus such as this

Hark and heed this Hank!
Stealing...

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Categories: scandalous, funny, writing,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Stalker
With beating heart and dragging feet this dark and soulful night
I stealthily tiptoe past her window hoping - not to see her light
But bathed in...

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Categories: scandalous, addiction, crush, humorous, scary,
Form: Rhyme



Chocolate Mousse Cake
I can die happy, with a great big grin
Knowing that I’m going to submit to this sin
It’s salacious, it’s scandalous - I’m in a tailspin...

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Categories: scandalous, food, funny, sensual,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Nursery Rhyme Land
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent...

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Categories: scandalous, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only Fools Think So
Pray for us sinners,
for indeed sinners we are.
In love with our immorality,
wallowing in our faults,
repeating our transgressions.
 
The world applauds us 
in complete agreement
with our...

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Categories: scandalous, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Diary of a Twisted Primate
a scandalous secret gnaws
at the epicenter of my being
threatening to unearth
score pillars of dirt
upon which my world is built

gilded in reverence,
vaingloriously lauded
and parlayed to ascend...

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© James Paul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scandalous, political, satire
Form: Free verse
No Surrender
Ive danced with the devil a thousand times,
disowned my family and commited crimes,
lost relationships and lived on the street,
and still i would not accept defeat.

Ive...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scandalous, hope, life, life, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Old Fogies: Part Ii
But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and...

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Categories: scandalous, age, community, crazy, humor,
Form: Free verse
S L I C E D
Let us be true to one another
I want it to be as if I was myself and you were my mirror
Reflect, emotions, if only I...

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Categories: scandalous, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moment
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for...

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Categories: scandalous, angst, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Subtle Seduction
octobre slinks forth
        relinquishing heat-scorched earth ~
           ...

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Categories: scandalous, autumn, seasons, spring, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ivory
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I...

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Categories: scandalous, appreciation, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs