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Best Sump Poems

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Feeling It
"I am feeling it." He said.
He meant his age. As I watched
I saw a vision…

Out from the cuttlefish bones of his breast
grime coughed up and...

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Categories: sump, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Ball Park
we have soft seat
theyer not weak
we sump our  feet
to the beat
its a treat
also a food cart
at my
BALL PARK...

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Categories: sump, childhood
Form: I do not know?
Love Bones
Bedsprings crochet bones together.
His back is sutured to gripes
stitched to gummy joints.

In the toilet, avoiding the mirror,
humming softly,
shunning conversation with himself -
the ceiling drips a...

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Categories: sump, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
My Bet
I bet on a horse and it won
50 quid is not a huge sum
So I bet again and still won 
But 100 quid is still...

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Categories: sump, funny, horse,
Form: Acrostic
The Heart
The Heart
  1  The heart has many chambers it is just like a small pump
  2  Tyrones’ is getting full and...

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Categories: sump, health, heart, heart, life,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Life With Trump X
Who tweets toxic thoughts like a pump
And has shown that we are his sump?
The zone he has sewn
This chump dump he must own
Ain't Earth—it’s his...

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Categories: sump, betrayal, bullying, death of
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lotsa Limericks--- Politicians Per Verse
Our prez is now Donald J Trump
Who has promised to clean out the sump
      Well he's certainly no wussy
 ...

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Categories: sump, humorous, political,
Form: Limerick
And What To Choose
Coffee or tea?

Fragmented frogs frolicking fruitlessly freeing flavoursome fairy freckles,
But what of the speckled hound in the bin?
Well he growled,
He snarled,
The sole paw pilot pivoting,
How...

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Categories: sump, bangla,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Things That Suck
T Thumb-sucking children while they are sleeping.
H Hematophagous animals, which means blood-seeking.
I Insects like those in the worm family.
N Newborns that just do it naturally.
G...

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Categories: sump, funny,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member On Winning


        It begins with a belief.
        Despite all odds, that it's...

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Categories: sump, humor, success,
Form: Couplet
Dimwits and Those That Are Dumb
Dimwits and Those That Are Dumb

Candidates  with each other contended
Maybe Constitution should be amended
And in certain part of it the way it read
For President...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sump, howl, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Heart Sewage - Harmatophile
(Heart sewage)

HARMATOPHILE

If I could I would

Turn off this love faucet

It has begun to back up again.

Flooded the basement

Filled with mud

Devotion, emotion and dust.

All this broken...

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Categories: sump, addiction, emotions, for her,
Form: Romanticism
The Bark
The night was dark, in the park when I heard a bark

then a ringing bell, blood curdling yell straight from Hell

A loud clunking sound from...

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Categories: sump, sound,
Form: Rhyme
No Toilets In Heaven
There are no toilets up in Heaven, so I was told
Righteous are the perfect sheep in God's Holy fold
They no longer have the need to...

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Categories: sump, heaven, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Working Overtime

Asbestos I can tell,
my lungs are working hard as
a sump pump in a clogged well
Though the cancer infiltration rate is currently low,
my body count white...

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Categories: sump, cancer, jobs, perspective, work,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs