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Best Superstitions Poems

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No Free Lunch
A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, irony, satire, society,
Form: Free verse



The Animal Atheists
There's no such thing as a Hindu horse, nor a Catholic cat
There's no such thing as a Protestant parrot, you can always be sure of...

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© David Lowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, religion, religion, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You Step On a Crack
If you step on a crack 
You will break your mother’s back.
When she made us mad.
It’s all we had.

We would spend hours
Jumping on the sidewalk...

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Categories: superstitions, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sedoka's Voodoo
Again, this time comes.
I shall undress these freckles
and wear your youth in honor.
Long journey of life.
Seconds of sand in my glass
shall fall upon your small...

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Categories: superstitions, mysteryme, me,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Superstition
In naive minds where paranoid whispers spread,
superstitions escalate through ancient lies.
An omen of fear that fills a heart with dread.
Be it the number thirteen or...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, allusion,
Form: Rispetto



Premium Member A Ravaged Raven
Ravaged Raven

On returning from work, I always pass near the cemetery
And always find no life moving there, almost same scenery. 
But today was a different...

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Categories: superstitions, dark,
Form: Free verse
Be Zealous By Patriotic Zeal
If patriotism really is in brain and mind
All superstitions, crimes instantly go out
Let's grow there the great patriotic zeal
And we do never ourselves lively kill
Real...

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Categories: superstitions, patriotic,
Form: Sestina
The Great Blasket Islands
Visits long ago 
to the Blaskets Islands,
to untouched areas 
on the Dingle peninsula
came to mind 
on this sleet winter’s eve.

The peninsula,
nestled in heather mountains.
The coastline,
tongues...

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© Eiken Laan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, childhood, family, history, life,
Form: Free verse
Society-Our Social World
SOCIETY - OUR SOCIAL WORLD

To a little girl, a pink dressed doll and cooking-set to play
To a little boy, toys are guns and cars they...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, people, social, society,
Form: Rhyme
Mentor To Many, But
Trains used to be Chain Smokers.
But we helped them Quit
By Electrifying them.

Dustbins used to be Illiterates.
We taught them to Differentiate
Organic from Plastic.

Communications used to be...

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Categories: superstitions, change, introspection, irony, mentor,
Form: Free verse
God Digested
It takes man to create god.
It takes people to consume a 
thought.
With the world and all it's 
delusions,
Promises made, 
Lives destroyed with 
superstitions.
Death, destruction.
The corruption...

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Categories: superstitions, absence
Form: ABC
Premium Member Friday the 13th
FRIDAY THE 13TH

Usually counting down Fridays 
Friday is actually Friday the 13th 
A day that is traditionally superstitions
Surrounded by bad vibes bad luck, 
Spooky superstitions,...

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Categories: superstitions, absence, confusion, metaphor, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Albinos' Song
A song of love to all ALBINOS, a song I will sing till my last day.

Let every lung help out in singing 
Let every mouth...

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Categories: superstitions, anger, devotion, planet,
Form: Free verse
We Are Flotsam
(with a spark of God)

To govern a myriad selection
Of one mind and legion.
Top tier parasitic collection
From every living region.

It's not subjective good or evil,
Moral or...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, addiction, depression, earth, environment,
Form: Quatrain
And Now
So now
At the beginning there was the strong, the chivalrous,
the greatness
that was the feeling,
 that was the beginning, 
then the downfall came.
In between superstitions and...

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© Ana Alicia  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superstitions, confusion
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things