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Best Scum Poems

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Premium Member The Scum of the Earth
There’s a sense in which all life is scum on this earth
(without God as creator), life here (more debris
that just floats on the surface of...

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Categories: scum, faith, fun, philosophy, science,
Form: Rhyme



Cocaine Is Her Name
COCAINE Is Her Name  ( Addiction )

COCAINE is her name. They call her COKE for short.
She came into this Country, without a Passport.
Since then...

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Categories: scum, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Human Being
You are a human being they told me, something you should treasure
But isn't a human being the only animal who kills for pleasure?
Man's inhumanity to...

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Categories: scum, confusion, social,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Rinse Clear POTD
Mind – a pool, deep and arcane,
Needs to be cleared n' cleansed from time to time
In the sinuous course of life,
Pause awhile to peer into...

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Categories: scum, introspection, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden
16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland is on the run
 
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...

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Categories: scum, political, warmen,
Form: Rhyme



I Only Understand Now
We talked at length
The hours we passed
The life you lived
Oh the horrors 
So many men's live snuffed
Oh Arizona, a dedication
Whose souls be at rest
Amidst oily...

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Categories: scum, death, father, introspection, love,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Utterly Despicable
Isn't it about time that the West and NATO stepped in
To put a stop to brutal aggression by Vladimar Putin
Men bound and shot, with their...

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Categories: scum, conflict, death, evil, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Russian Evil Will Thrive If Good Men Do Nothing
The west went in guns blazing to help their fellow man
In Syria against the Islamic State and in Iraq and Afghanistan
They brought an end to...

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Categories: scum, conflict, death, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ukraines Defiance
Ukraine is putting up a brave fight and is not giving in
A two finger salute to that murderer, Vladimar Putin
For eight months now they've held...

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Categories: scum, death, evil, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prickly Heat
The gifted house and the ghost of his Grandmother trapped him. Her presence clung with the leftover nicotine to the walls of every room. A...

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Categories: scum, lost love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Once Upon a Rainbow
The new tomatoes were
Little bumps
On the
Vine
Showing off to the
Universe
Before sundown
On the fourth of
July
Waiting for the 
Celebration
To begin

Duckweed choked
The pond
Set back in the
Woods

Baby
Painted Turtles
Full of hope
Sunning...

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Categories: scum, art, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Goodbye, Good Riddance! (Co-Written With James Fraser)
With no toilet seats carelessly left propped up
Oh, now I can be such a comfortable pup
Please take your Playboys straight out that open door
Then shut...

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Categories: scum, funnyme,
Form: Quatrain
Granny Had a Yellow Cat
Granny had a yellow cat Matty Sand-arum
                  ...

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Categories: scum, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
The Wasteland -Part 1-
How can one express the baffling depths of obscurity?
How can one behold to open the shafts of the mind?
I have never been able to solve...

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Categories: scum, adventure, allegory, angst, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Wrong...
I’ve been married for some twenty years
And sometimes I make my wife cry.
Now I have a mantra when I bring her to tears;
“I’m wrong; I’m...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scum, husband, wife
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs