Best Schadenfreude Poems

The sickness, it bubbles
I stare the ceiling out
The rage, red, sticky and hot
Fire charred my insides black
Your face falls with a thud

Thud. Thud. Thud.

My heart...

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That wind so wild can cause those wooden limbs
to shake from side to side as though to slap a face.
It is worth watching through your...

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Scandals are delicious to us
Celebrities are fair fodder
How thrilling to hear the details of the divorce
Anothers misfortune sadly gives us a certain joy
Devilish felings of...

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I've seen how mean 
You treat others. 
You're well known for stepping 
On the necks of those 
You deem beneath you.
You've conveniently forgotten 
Laughing 
Over...

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you can curb your poor
actions and always bite your
cheek before you laugh....

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The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men...

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Appearance was your entire routine.
But truth is found if one looks deep enough.
A walking good first impression machine,
Yet something else when we cut through the...

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I've been a bit free with the vitriol with a couple of poems recently, and need to check myself.  Some months ago I met...

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Rain seeps into every crack and crevice
chilling to the bone
Winter has arrived with a vengeance 
and summer is forever gone.
Ice slicks the asphalt, into a
glittering...

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Singularity of transparency
bias; one sided,
and hiding -
Apparently.

Voyeur de schadenfreude,
suddenly; 
study me
Where's Sigmund Fraud, huh?

Social entrapment;
Find a Nietzsche -
in a market?
Huh, no reaction.

Not a segment of...

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On one daring day, when the bruising sun was yet to set
And unfold the opportunities of an anticipated and hopeful day.
A bystander sprouted out from...

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Bamboozlement, a joy to thy heart
And thou gloat at their misfortunes
Maliciously misleading them with tricks
Bury this private property, a plea
Otherwise, you'll earn thy pay in...

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Canto I: The Words of Laozi  

The Divinely Illustrious Sage  
Prays for every soul to heed:
That neither woe nor weal
Heaven has foreordained,
But wrought...

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Sit Transit Gloria Mundi
Rick Folker

Our current consumptive culture
Salivates over
"Tech" and "Cell" and "Screen"
That transmits the lurid, pornographic
Apocalyptic scenes.

We long for the end
Of the endless 24/7...

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Of course I would never consider your harm a
Deliciously fitting comeuppance of karma;
I only confess that I might have enjoyed a
Judicious, wee smidgen of slight...

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