Egregious Poems

Panacea in Colorful Bottles

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Written: September 9, 2025, for contest sponsored by: Rob Carmack

Quote: "Lovers have heartaches that can't be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved" By...

Luckily, It Stopped Before Q

...Arbitrary patterns, be it said,
Behove a poet who has nought to say:
Consider if you will, the holy dread
Descending on him when he has to play

Egregious games of lexicon and sense:
Ferocious ...

Rhyme but no Reason for Treason Silly Season

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Damn it the planet’s on fire

Concerning..right down to the wire

Burning on its funeral pyre spire


I’m for turning.. where’s the messiah?

A heavenly choir…so we can aspire

That le...

life

...i am an egregious creature
my hands carry the weight of my mothers grief
my legs tied down by the burden of my father's sins
my eyes hold unspoken truths
that even the heavenly father would not b...

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...

Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch

...Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch

delivered me back in the dark shadows
and the underbelly of the web,
where impossible mission 
to differentiate the outer limits ...

My Personal Dis-ease

...Why does doom feel so familiar
While happiness seems so far away?
How many times have you heard the supplications
Asking for help, or
Begging for mercy, from our suffering.
In this god-forsaken ...

Genocide in Real Time

...We cowardly witnessed the genocide of many human beings
Live, live, live in real time
That was an odious, callous and vicious crime
We said nothing, absolutely nothing about the sad and...

The Peace of Passing

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Would that I could consider this departure 
A pleasure trip to lands with beautiful sights. 
Traveling for betterment of mind and spirit 
A place you go…and come back you might.

Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream

...The following account predicated on partial fact and a healthy dose of prevarication with an attendant overactive imagination.

Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dre...

Do Your Worst

...Perhaps you think I’m sitting here, amazed.
Egregious as the test you set me is,
the truth is, I am utterly unfazed.

Desultory, to me, this kind of quiz.    
Of course I like a challenge. Don’t...

Turn Left at the lights

...Obtuse abuse..rude platitudes shout..

About alternative attitudes..generations..

Scream at different altitudes & latitudes..

Venerate mandarins sins.. 

Generate pernicious vicissitudes

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Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable

...Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable

Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the ...

Elysian Custodian - Love Esoteric Hunt

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Written: April 4th 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand
 
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April arises with a gentle promise  
crocuses awaken from their winter dormancy —
while ...

We write, of freedoms'

...Indeed there are many good poems, here in rhyme and in
Prose.' In Haiku and Senryu ' Acrostic; who knows.? Also
There are some who, write comments while 'holding their own
Nose' we can think what ...

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