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Best To Run Amok Poems


Elephants - Two Limericks
1.
An irascibelephant whom no-one could trust
Had a whim to run amok, or bust!
Though roundly condemned by his peers as a skunk,
From interception they’d cowardly shrunk,
Saying simply, “Old boy, if you musth, then you musth!”
 
 
2. Elephants have as  a favourite pursuit
A fondness for...

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Categories: to run amok, animal, humorous,
Form: Limerick
A Rare Rhinoceros
A Rare Rhinoceros
 
Nothing seems so rare as a robust rhinoceros
Trying to point long nose into business like us
And incredible case in point never could prove
Because with big mouth he wanted to behoove.

He was rhinoceros always being the rowdiest
With his nose's point many things had...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: to run amok, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Pillage...And Peace
Upon a dead mound of rocks,
Approached a man, a horse,
With armored chest and visored face:
Well-shielded all across.
Looking back, he gestured motion
Then there was a shout
Of thundering voices in a parley--
Hark! A battle roust...!!

On and on went blade and sword:
Smote against smote;
The same action was followed...

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Categories: to run amok, death, imagination
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Not Him Who Wears My Face
Woman! darkly gleam is your work I esteem…love it!
From mountainous mountain top to valley‘s belly
I hear you pluck…on eagle‘s wings…onward pluck
How nice, your device visits and forces in their smelly
Glamorous cells, a glad evening‘s grief to run amok.

Then ever, of flowing emotions savour. Oh their...

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Categories: to run amok, child, death, space,
Form: Sonnet
Nympheta
Beginning to be caught up in a state of evanescere
I began to fade to black
Despair begins to run amok
Forging her face from the fairest spector of weaving maidens
A polished perverted phantasm
In the mist of a slumber
Lying on a blanket of within temptations
Becoming enticed by sexual...

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Categories: to run amok, lust,
Form: Free verse
Rain
my parched eyes watch torrents of rain 
lashing the glass windows
of my chic office on the seventeenth floor
can't hear the tinkling of drops 
or rumbling of clouds though
the sound obscured by engineered acoustics

I shut my eyes and it comes singing to me-
the sound of dripping...

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Categories: to run amok, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Oscar My Alter Ego
I've had an 'out of body' experience

So you can't blame me for what I did

My alter ego Oscar perpetrated the crime

To do such a thing I'm too timid

I'm totally innocent of this heinous act

Must have been devoid of all morals

Listen I still do have a...

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Categories: to run amok, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Once Laid Footsteps -Cynosure
The remnants of once laid footsteps oppressed my memory,                                    ...

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Categories: to run amok, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Alter Ego
I've had an 'out of body experience'
So you can't blame me for what I did
My alter ego perpetrated the crime
To do such a thing I'm too timid

I'm totally innocent of this heinous act
I'd have had to be devoid of all morals
Listen I still do have...

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Categories: to run amok, funny, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blonde Bombers
Blonde bombers light my rusty old candle
Eyebrows and toes curl, causing quite a scandal
Tend to run amok
As I babble and cluck
Eyes roll independently, use my hooha as a handle...

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Categories: to run amok, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Canned Spam
Who knows what sillies lurk in the hearts of man
All seem normal outside but inside, imagine if you can
A hidden desire to run amok
Act like a total schmuck
Screaming through the streets chomping on canned spam...

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Categories: to run amok, psychological,
Form: Limerick
ComeHoming - Matthew 15:4
You’re an *******.
Words muttered out of context, out of line.
A rage-shadowed truth,
but with such unexpected forthrightness,
it missed its mark,
serving only to deepen our divide.
Home is no longer where happy is.
I’m not sure it ever was. 
There’s no abuse hurled or fists weaponized,
and much
— if not...

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Categories: to run amok, anger, anxiety, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Can of Spam
Who knows what sillies lurk in the heart of this man
All seems normal outside but inside, imagine if you can
A hidden desire to run amok
Act like a total schmuck
Screaming through the streets chomping on canned spam...

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Categories: to run amok, surreal,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Wish Upon a Star
Of energy that’s sent by you,
’Tis more than likely none gets through.
And when you wish upon a star,
The odds, more likely, aren’t than are.
And when you try to bring good luck,
things are as apt to run amok.
Enlist a specter of the dead? 
Some things are...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: to run amok, christian, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canned Spam
Who knows what lurks in the hearts of man
All seems normal outside but imagine if you can
A hidden desire to run amok
Act like a total schmuck
Screaming in the streets chomping on canned spam...

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Categories: to run amok, humor,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry