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Best Scoundrel Poems

Below are the all-time best Scoundrel poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scoundrel poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member 19 Crimes
My confession
I murdered them all
impostors
claims of poetic devices
when the evidence was only
rants piled upon rants

A circle of praises
made the courts dizzy
the frauds committed
only added to...

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Categories: scoundrel, art, character, conflict, introspection,
Form: Free verse



The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: scoundrel, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member No Limits, No Boundaries
I was just a bad boy to the core
I lived at every bar in town
Everybody knew my name,
I had a bad reputation, and I 
couldn't...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scoundrel, first love, how i
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fire In the Heart
Forbidden, deep inside her heart it grew.
It needed only one spark to ignite.
Repressing it was what she had to do.
Extraordinary was the ember’s might!

Incessantly, she...

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Categories: scoundrel, pain, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Scoundrel's Game
A yearning for affection and romance
can cause one’s getting scorched by passions’ flame.
Love blooms if it is given a fair chance,
but some attempt to play...

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Categories: scoundrel, passion, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Great Forgotten Language
"The Great Forgotten Language" 

In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds

strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing 
of a known self

some run away
spooked as if 
the bare reflection...

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Categories: scoundrel, humanity, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heart Speak
Tho' I am but the sparrow's twining strains
The palette and the pen of whisp'ring souls
I'm sweeter, still, if dashed upon the shoals
Or bleeding from the...

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Categories: scoundrel, analogy, appreciation, heart, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member A Significant Empty -Ct
Change aint easy, 
lover and a hater times two.  
The quiet one, looking for psychedelic sound.
Who am I? The Borrower, weeping unanswered questions.
When you...

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Categories: scoundrel, heart, imagery, lust,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Nasty Panda
China charges 1 million annually
For each panda in our zoos
If we won't pay in full
Then the pandas we will lose
Nasty Panda's the exception
No one wants...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scoundrel, animal, corruption, dark, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Better Run
I’m a scoundrel that travels by sea
with me mates. We are happy and free
cause we live life with ease
doing just what we please.
It’s the life...

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Categories: scoundrel, adventure, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots I
Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages 
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
Outlying greenland bounds,
Jostled apex ridges detach...

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Categories: scoundrel, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member shadow play -
you spurn ... I burn
    your touch is aphotic nirvana
       a lurid and misty Elysium, pure
...

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Categories: scoundrel, metaphor, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Obsession
Obsession was a song that got to me
reminding me of what I had gone through,
the first time feelings gushed as poetry!

Even though that song did...

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Categories: scoundrel, longing, love hurts,
Form: Villanelle
Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Why are you acting mad at me?
Because I got home late last night?
I went with friends to get a...

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Categories: scoundrel, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Princess Leia and Hans Solo
Star Wars’ Princess Leia
    Her real  father she had no idea--
  Was  evil Vader from the Dark Force
 ...

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Categories: scoundrel, celebrity, humor,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Reflection on the Important Things