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Compunction Poems - Poems about Compunction

Premium Member Science Report or Who Prays for the Mantis
...Praying mantises, those arthropod thugs, prey upon other, unfortunate, bugs, "But who prays for the praying mantis?", I ask, "And what lurks behind that killer's mask?" After the males have fu......

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Categories: compunction, humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme
The Prismatic Self: Male Arrogance
...Okay then, I’ll admit it. Yes, I’m lazy. Not quite the hardest worker ever known. My talent is a Motorola phone: to drink the colour of a mountain daisy or taste a mirror (doesn’t that sound craz......

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Categories: compunction, self,
Form: Sonnet



DESTINY
...What means destiny? It's being an all round, or waiting for the correct time. Doing own work with perfection, or waiting for corrections in life. Learning from own mistakes, or leaving everything ......

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Categories: compunction, 12th grade, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Pull Your Head Out
...Unclench your sphincter to better see the world around you and reality. Survey the landscape thru a forests tree's spot the misconceptions of what's to be. These lefty loons they prefer ......

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Categories: compunction, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songbird
...Lirena was a songbird born of yore Who dearly loved her husband everyday; She sings her songs of contentment no more. An adversary’s troops ransacked the shore, A ruthless marauding they did di......

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Categories: compunction, bereavement, bird, courage, death,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Heartbeat Waltz
... Written: November 10, 2024 ______________________________ In the quiet of a twilight room, heartbeats harmonize with a haunting hymn, each thump a haunting, a ......

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Categories: compunction, appreciation, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Free verse
STILL HOLDING MY OWN
...STILL HOLDING MY OWN There once was a broken sink The repair cost makes me think Much porcelain gone Shards to step upon It’s taking me right to the brink Broken pipes and a dented junction......

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Categories: compunction, abuse, anger,
Form: Limerick
weapons
...I’m a weapon of mass destruction the kind that doesn't appeal to societies seductions I am all about kingdom construction The word of God is my daily instructions I get an unction, how to functi......

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Categories: compunction, christian, evil, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Husband and Hubbard
...l ron hubbard, aimed amiss at Coronado islands.soon captain no longer, relieved of command' Also Husband E Kimmel For Pearl. Had to carry the can! From fiasco to disaster.' Either didn't really pl......

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Categories: compunction, education, irony,
Form: Rhyme
sweet redolence next mine
.... i tell you girl Without Compunction whilst 'gainst mine Matters not ......

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Categories: compunction, beautiful, blessing, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Museum Of Masked Faces - First Draft
... On synthetic derelict stage of deception domain, I gyrate the split mind, ensnared by bipolarity chain. Under illusive limelight of ostentatious time, I’m entangled in machinated invasive par......

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Categories: compunction, analogy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crying Girl - Roy Lichtenstein
...It's nothing, the tear can be wiped away The emotion neatly swept aside today Discreetly dealt with, it's alright I cried out my eye colour during my plight The only indication of my altered stat......

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Categories: compunction, abuse,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member When Does Reason Trump Extreme Adventure
...What price adventure When the risk outweighs the venture, No dishonor not to start, Merely you just being smart. If compunction is the cause, That adrenaline rush which draws, Take a breath a......

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Categories: compunction, adventure, confidence, courage, cry,
Form: Quatrain
Never Be Remiss of Purpose
... Christian child and elder both - may we never be remiss of each our purpose and aim in our every moment and instant daily function - Quite to best ensure by our foremost effort and endea......

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Categories: compunction, bible, character, christian, future,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member River Voice
...Here lies what this aged Indigenous River thinks s/he needs and wants, perhaps, but most emphatically feels, from us. We continue to use Her more like a shameful toilet than her delivery sys......

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Categories: compunction, appreciation, environment, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

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