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Best Skewered Poems

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


Matters of the Heart
Balaclava'd minister in a lanky limousine
Condomised personality inside a broken mask
Skewered chopsticks serve pieces of Pancolin
Toilet paper dolphins to wipe his weary ****

Ave Maria.. Amanita...

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Categories: skewered, holocaust,
Form: Free verse



The Night Market
If you wait until the sun goes down,
a thousand suns will rise.
Artificial, bright, igniting
tangled clouds in smoggy skies,
and flooding dingy streets
with fluorescent streams of light
that...

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Categories: skewered, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meat
Anchored by its feet hangs the carcass
Butcher removes brisket and strings it
Chuck steak diced for stews and pies
Dark well matured silverside rests
Entrails give the dogs...

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Categories: skewered, food,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its...

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Categories: skewered, muse,
Form: Narrative
Most Restful Sleep Since Being In Utero
Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got...

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Categories: skewered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Blessed On a Deserted Island
Who would imagine that my life would come down to the edge of a blade
worked and worked on stone, scraping off goo and removing the...

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Categories: skewered, beach, environment, god, image,
Form: Couplet
Banana Boat Bob
<                        Banana...

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Categories: skewered, adventure, business, education, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Earthquake In a Tea Cup
"Earthquake in a Tea Cup"

the earthquake 
rocked through 
a pink haze 
soft and powdered
scent of lit smoke
flaming fires 
hot oven baked 
green apples 
ripe skin...

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Categories: skewered, muse, satire, sensual,
Form: Narrative
A Girl Was Raped In a Bus That Night
A girl was raped in a bus that night 
By six men, all drunk, who had lost their minds	
Ambrosia was the elixir of gods, it...

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Categories: skewered, angst, daughter, men, night,
Form: Narrative
Patricia Mccormic Bullfighter
Patricia McCormic – Bullfighter

A bull, a sword, a big red cape
A cheering crowd, a girly shape
She was the first back in her day
A Matador, the...

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Categories: skewered, adventure, art, girl, sports,
Form: Rhyme
How To Win That Man
perfectionism: the fragrance.
be an ideal vial
of toilet water.
discover little dainties 
in pock-marked
hand-held
facades.
purge your persona 
with the devil’s 
details.

flippancy: the fashion.
be a toothpick-skewered
single-serving 
euphemism.
be sampled
and rimmed...

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Categories: skewered, angst, satire, social
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

        ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skewered, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Earthworm
Worms are grisly,
quite abhorrent,
slimy, and a world apart from
style and character I'll warrant.

All they do is wriggle,
wiggle to distraction,
captured by the early bird
they're skewered to...

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Categories: skewered, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Everyone's Life
Everyone’s life’s really tragic it seems,
There’s just not time friend to live all our dreams.
While you may try to keep stiff upper lip,
Gravity’s plotting to...

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Categories: skewered, life,
Form: Rhyme
Beach Walk
On an early morning walk of coffee and salt
under a sullen sky filled with the tridents of wings,
I add my footprints beside a blowsy sea...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skewered, childhoodsea, may, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs