Best Worse Poems

(note:  picture is essential to the poem)

POTD 11-25-17

Teacher said my decisions needed consequences.
I have to write a million gazillion sorry sentences.
Billy was stupid to tease me, call my family poor.
I had to kick Billy so he wouldn’t say it more.
Just like Dad does, I laughed when he hit the floor.
Dad would say I was...

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 x You,
the one who hurts me.
 x You,
the one who chains me.
 x You,
the one who controls me like a puppet.
 x You,
the one who has my strings tied to your fingers.
 x You're making my choices yours and I've gotten used having no say.
 x Weave the webbing you create,
Trap me like a...

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WORSE THAN DEATH

Calling for you. 
Reaching with my hand. 
Reaching out to feel...
for finger tips, yours. 

No one there!
Where is that grasp?
That bouquet of warmth,
one hand tucked in another. 

Ice cold, cooler, 
freezing, I call for you. 
Call out in confusion, 
the name of our child. 

Ragged hard breathing. 
Then hardly audible...
whispering the names, 
I...

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Have you ever met those kind of blokes who get upon your nerve,
when they quote continual references that most think should deserve
a threatening confrontation that if they make that quote again, 
then the punishment that’s handed out will give them heaps of pain.

A gang of us were working down along the Main Drain stream,
clearing blackberries...

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Nurse for Better Or Worse

Had married my wife for better or worse.
And she ended up becoming a nurse;
Not only that became an Registered RN;
On general floor is where she did begin.

With others her each ability did share
Became part of Neonatal Intensive Care
When she put on each nursing shoe
Would always end up going to NICU.

Each morning...

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Despite the thorns I hold on to my rose - we bleed together.

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Contest: Roses Are Red
Sponsor: Alexis Y.
Placed 1st...

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Less than twenty-four hours after dashing off a poem 
   explaining why i wanted to die
found me experiencing physical duress vis a vis, 
   a bowel movement wherein waste unable to expel 
   from the anus of this guy
which bout with rectal obstruction 
   found me doubled...

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She lays there alone
Looking at the sky
She thinks of that saying,the one about sticks and stones
And says softly to herself "Thats a lie."
That day she had been called a pig,a *****, and a mutt
She had also been told she was fat,worthless,and scary
She wonders if she really is a ****
Soon she became ever so wary
Then she...

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Somebody stepped on me once 
and I was angry enough to swear.
The hardest game comes into play,
kill them with kindness or fight back.

Soon after I came across words that
forever changed my attitude toward 
human confrontation:

"Treat me good and I'll treat you better, treat
me bad and I'll treat you worse"-Freedom, Credos from the Road

Nobody took advantage...

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~ Doctor Save Me ~

              Help me aging got worse they say
                           sources of problems are...

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Steve was hoping that on Valentine's Day
That he’d be lucky and he’d get a lay
He thought very hard
And purchased a card...
‘In loving memory’ it did say! 

His girlfriend hit him over the head
She ordered him - get out of the bed!
When she read the sad verse
Her anger got much worse 
Silly Steve now wished that...

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Why did she do such a thing
How much pain it brings
It feels like I cant breathe
But she does still love me 
And I love her 
Though it is hard to 
It could be worse 
Because now she is free...

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Villanelle: No curse worse than the place and name you inherit to hate

No curse worse than the place and name you inherit to hate
There where you first blink your own coffin you have to nail
The exiled wander aimless in the throes of never-relenting fate

Hounded by carnal goals and bound fast by your fate innate
The hammer...

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I heard a saying long before
Too many cooks spoil the broth sure
I think it proves right
With one another they fight
The man dodges or they little to share.

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Ninth Placement
Contest: To die for Limericks...

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Villanelle: Is there shame worse than that to be caught dead unknown

Is there shame worse than that to be caught dead unknown
How many would give their lives young to be acclaimed
Sell their souls deceive connive plagiarize unbeknown

Burn Rome to the tune of fires surging from a lyre lone
How many Caesars seek Cleopatra’s arms to be...

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