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Best Vexing Poems

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Premium Member falling like leaves -
oh, how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
my heart with reprieves - the redolent
       leaves
remembrance of romance with...

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Categories: vexing, autumn, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress
“Wicked Web of Woes” 

Is there a reason
to rhyme when 
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced 
quill suffocates
from wildering 
riddles swerving to
the stillness 
of calcified air?...

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Categories: vexing, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Foolishly Once Thought You Had It Bad: a Collaboration
When tons of doom filled nights fall on your head,
hot embers glow and fires burn unabated,
you recall her last breath and wish you were dead.
In...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vexing, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Diminished Respect
There was a time.

There was a time
When your fabled dreams
Seemed honest

A time when
Your open arms
Coated in dented silver and tainted dreams
Understood my Size 12 shoes

When...

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Categories: vexing, life, slam,
Form: Free verse
Weeping Willow
Weeping Willow

The way your toes curl when you first wake up, yes I have been there to see this.
The way your nose wrinkles as you...

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Categories: vexing, lovenight, night,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Quiescent
“Activity makes my life colorful. To be quiescent is relaxing, but when it prolongs, I feel I am dead.” – By Poet



Day after day passes
With...

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Categories: vexing, feelings, life, missing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eurovision Past, Present, Future Poetry Contest
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Can anyone tell me why does Eurovision exist?
The show’s absolute rubbish,
but some say it just can’t be missed.

The acts are so bad, they’re simply vexing.
Makes...

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Categories: vexing, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Nail Biter
He bites his nails beside me on the bed
so loudly!  This strange habit is most grating.
I’d like to throw a pillow at his head,
but...

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Categories: vexing, pets,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Winter
As heavy frost settles 'pon the brown hill
And floats down to the level, thoughts are stilled
Words rise up to nettle but spirits thrill
Winter's north breeze...

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Categories: vexing, life,
Form: Rhyme
Time Will Tell
TIME WILL TELL

A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
 Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
 Quiet corner of the galaxy....

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Categories: vexing, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Hoarding Hope - the Odd Ball
Get me feeling well
For, I am sick as hell
Brain orgasms and headaches rape my mind and left me thoughtlessly behind
Trying to keep the Kingdom in...

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Categories: vexing, angst, depression, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Lovelore
What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home
or the Siren’s song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit 
nights in a...

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Categories: vexing, love,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless Nomadic Part 3
I’m left perplexed. How vexing, how complex…
the plight of a simple man, (one’s ruin is another’s choosing) is moving and  doing the least that...

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Categories: vexing, addiction, adventure, freedom, home,
Form: Rhyme
~ For Her ... For Me ~
~ If were I to have my way ... the-welcome-of-
those ten days, then I'd be sure, she would know. 
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My love the fairest dream-of all-I-wanted-to...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vexing, inspirationallove, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member wink me farewell -
again …

here I am -
a glum ghost
a somber shadow
I have come to dream

to pledge duty, your gleam
to venerate your foreday liturgy
ah, and mend the mist...

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Categories: vexing, analogy, appreciation, beauty, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs