Doped Poems

Premium MemberYou Be the Judge

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Those crunchy flakes doped up with sugar
may be contributing to your odd behavior.
Take my advice, it’s not too late, if you’re able:
keep the poisons off the breakfast table –
what you’re ea...
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Categories: doped, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberKing Mouse

...Who was only one inch tall,
raised in a lab since he was, well...small, 
doped on phenobarbital,
escaping o'er his prison wall.
Tell me friend, can you recall
King Mouse?

Who lived in a tidy ...
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Categories: doped, animal, tribute,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberHey, It's Cafe Jazz

...Snapping fingers, a low hum in the microphone)
 Hey, It's Café Jazz/ But we ain't just sipping black coffee and snapping our fingers in polite applause/
 Talkin' Bop/ first idiom where being white ...
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Categories: doped, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene

All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories: doped, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme

After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race

...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...

Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
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Categories: doped, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPoetic Podcast Episode 19 Bop

...Always say what you mean to say 
exactly how you mean to say it;
That’s tattooed so deep in my DNA,
I promise I’ll never get it covered up;
When did sucker become popular? 
The game will not cha...
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Categories: doped, emotions, feelings, humanity, introspection,
Form: Other

Desire, a hurtling horse on hire

...Man, seldom a straightforward animal, 
Long lost in the deserts of weariness,
Wants to flee from a life of denial, 
Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash,
 
And feeling hurt, he nurses hidd...
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Categories: doped, desire, dream, world,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberZomboid Creatures

...This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love.

— Patrick McGarth*

ZOMBOID CREATURES

no way out of the...
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Categories: doped, death,
Form: Rhyme

Cajun Creed Will Get Revenge

...I've been doin' time, sittin in this jail cell for too long.
Yea, I made mistakes because I was headstrong
when I killed Isabelle, but it's what she deserved.
She ran off with my coke and money. T...
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Categories: doped, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFootles To Bug You

...Query at Insect Inspection:

Insect
been checked?

Response to Query:

Insect 
been wrecked

Wanted Ad for Bug Arsonist:

Hire thug -
Fire bug

Doped Up Insects

Red bugs
fed drugs
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Categories: doped, insect,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberSwing Low

...I lassoed with my lariat
a laureate named Harriet;
I rope-a-doped a pope
and washed his mouth with soap.
The wheel broke on my chariot;
it was too big to carry it.
The poet and the pope got hit...
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Categories: doped, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFalling Down

...Side effect of intelligence, 
paradoxical mind embrace 
Negative thoughts seep in, 
an experience of disgrace
The price for overthinking, 
purpose trickles to a trace

So starts chain reaction...
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Categories: doped, allusion, depression, mental illness,
Form: Monorhyme

Viral

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"Viral"
 


overlords for the good 
of the world 
walk and breathe
their lines 

pure as 
Snow White
war addicted
kissed while sleeping 

shadows speak 
a good ta...
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Categories: doped, dark, hero, humanity, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Dangerous Game

...we remain
 at DEFCON 4
no cause for alarm
we continue to monitor
  this situation
very fluid
interesting times
buckle your
  seat belt

Nosydoomas prophesized:
  the Bear goes ballistic
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Categories: doped, anger, anxiety, dark, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAbcedarian For Fun

...Alleged anthrax-laden alligator arrives in afternoon
Beyond bright baboon baby bestows brilliance 
Chaste chimpanzees charge chagrined cheetahs 
Doped donkeys deliberate director’s dictate
Elonga...
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Categories: doped, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Abecedarian

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