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Best Turpitude Poems

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Premium Member Wrongful Conviction
Sweetened dung is shoveled down
gluttonous throats with eager appetites for
alleged misdeeds skillfully spun
into a frenzy of sensationalized hype
by media-seasoned reporters.
.
Seduced by speculation and hearsay,
a jury...

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Categories: turpitude, allegory, social,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dwm Senior Dance Days
“…Let the sunshine (and let the sun shine on in)
Let the sunshine in (You got to open up your heart)…"
-- From Aquarius, by The 5th...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turpitude, 12th grade, age, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marinated, Dude
Are you in the mood
  for a poem about food
Something marinated, dude
  or grilled, barbequed

     Tangentially: 

Have you ever...

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Categories: turpitude, fish, food, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Life
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" -- William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a life
bereft of joy by reason’s cloud
to sling invective like a scythe
from perched...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turpitude, crush, forgiveness, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Roast of Rhyme - Rhyme Schema
I am trying to relate to the strategy of rhyme,
Using words to titillate from the droll to the sublime.
Do I write "a rime that scintillates"...

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Categories: turpitude, poems, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Somnambulist
after the sky drops. 
The walking corpses come out 
the veil of night masks 
the decay 
the rot 
of humanity 
Plague of the earth. 

Found...

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Categories: turpitude, beautiful, feelings, for her,
Form: Free verse
Our King Is Insane
Clad in his double-breasted royal toga
Filled of nothing but pride and anger
His face as grim as a Pallbearer’s
His gaze dreadful and fearful like that of...

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Categories: turpitude, allegory, angst, history, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Kindness
A heartfelt generosity removes all turpitude....

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Categories: turpitude, happiness,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Cancer of Africa
Our Shame, 

"PRESIDENT" & "LEADERS" 

Full grown men,
old,
devoid of vision,
Lacking in wisdom, 
wicked weaklings 
protected by paltry paid gun men 
great grandfathers, 
unwilling to train...

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Categories: turpitude, cancer, corruption, cry, evil,
Form: Free verse
The Narcissist
Turning into an angelic beast,
Here is the ugly Narcissist....
For others! She cared least,
Here's the ugly Narcissist.

When the plot of life got revealed,
She had a role...

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Categories: turpitude, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Troll and the Spinster
One evening an old ailurophile strolled through a forest with her blackest of cats,
To brood on her once goldenrod hair and the callipygous bottom on...

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Categories: turpitude, beauty, fantasy, fate,
Form: Couplet
The Devil Never Sleeps
Sacrificial, the non-closure of gecko eyes, and counts the lines
Drawn of rain and neon on my window’s negative plate;
In restless turpitude, nervous sanction, switch flicked
The...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turpitude, allegory, angst, death, faith,
Form: Blank verse
Jude
Jude
Jude was shrewd.
Jude was shrewd with turpitude.
Shrewd Jude with turpitude had a bad attitude.
Shrewd Jude with turpitude and a bad attitude moved to another latitude.
Shrewd...

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Categories: turpitude, adventure, funny, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Doomed Dolt, Numbed Nerd, Trampled Trumpery:2
During election and after, buzzwords loud and clear, brags loud and clear,
the motherer lumps all milestone feats into his merits sphere,
as if to the national...

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Categories: turpitude, corruption, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Confession
There is pressure in my innermost heart,
As the voice deep within points fingers on me,
That memories deluge my secret act,
For my heart is heavy, I...

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Categories: turpitude, anger, break up, evil,
Form: Canzone

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