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Cudgel Poems - Poems about Cudgel

Premium Memberemotional shrapnel

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invincibility had been a difficult pastime 
the flak vest of insecurity and coverups 
had managed to inflate anxieties and fears
to the bursting point of impromptu explosion
 
the festering bo...
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Categories: cudgel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Risk and Riot

...Cold choice, listen to the voice!
Waver filleth all!
He who suffers Sin annoys?
Blanching light, thy pall.

Hated minutes of each day!
Flickering in time!
Doubt belies all disarray!
Drop and ...
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Categories: cudgel, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme



The Love I Have Lost And Found

...Long time had passed, our road doesn't met
We keep on searching, but fate doesn't allow us
I removed myself from my shell to find freedom
Time you came unnoticed I wasn't there
I go to North, you...
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Categories: cudgel, life, lost love, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCafe' of Apathy

...Depression is a Nomad wanderer, searching for a hope to break
In that place of heartless, smoke-filled rot where even laughter proves to fake.

The Darkness is a bold intruder, a critique of one's...
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Categories: cudgel, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Among the Angels

...When our grindstone comes into blossom,
A hen's curse might kill an eagle.
Maybe when hell freezes over,
The snake that I see will bite.

I am mortal but among the Angels
Left but never forgott...
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Categories: cudgel, blessing, courage, encouraging, power,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberOf Morality

...Dice, the goddess of morals, asked her mother, Themis
Why there's divorce, gambling, abortion, and alcoholism?
Why should dehumanization, like a Bloodstone, beamish?
Why should knives of nemesis n...
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Categories: cudgel, evil, integrity, life, love,
Form: Sonnet

Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries Papa

...Inxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa

Although gainfully unemployed 
(fate now finds me receiving 
social security disability – 
for approximately 
the la...
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Categories: cudgel, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHistrionic Human Spirit M

...Those who live an artistic life are genuinely soul-aware. 
It is as vital to the human spirit as is the air. 
Artistry, sculpture, and landscape design are creative,
That's around spir...
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Categories: cudgel, analogy, appreciation, beauty, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Be Mild To Every Child

...Stuff never children with lots of details,
Enough is done if we teach the basics,

Provoke in them a desire to learn,
Yoke them never like treating a bull,

Give them adequate time to learn,
B...
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Categories: cudgel, anti bullying, bullying, care,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA New Mythology

...There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame 
Showing the way for true rock & roller...
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Categories: cudgel, allegory, mythology,
Form: Blank verse

Flying Delta

...Elbows must be packed more carefully.

I catch the eye of a flight attendant.
Some preliminary questions…

"Miss can I be slipped into a less edgy wedge?

She frowns, resenting perhaps my ‘mis...
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Categories: cudgel, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow Tree

...Song from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")

O! sing...
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Categories: cudgel, dance, death, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExplicit

...I'm going to try one more time
To write an intellectual rhyme
Some with complicated words
Most of which I've never heard
Words that cudgel my brain
So I can deliberate and strain
My antediluvia...
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Categories: cudgel, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Blind Wizard of Acadia

...Entered politics on the Braille Ticket
agitating for better municipal lighting
for the long suffering curbside hookers 
and their various pimp coerced implants
his telephone rang  only at meals
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Categories: cudgel, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Lifelong Discrimination As Lowest Man On Totem Pole

...Born shackled with globe sized
yoked millstone around my neck
rivaling the world Atlas shrugged,
or outsize boulder Sisyphus

eternally obliged to toil uphill
steepest mountain side
in concert...
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Categories: cudgel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio

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