Long Maggots Poems
Long Maggots Poems. Below are the most popular long Maggots by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Maggots poems by poem length and keyword.
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
maggots, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
maggots, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
maggots, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy GrowthShame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
maggots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
maggots, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
maggots, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gagat Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
maggots, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Scent of DeathYou narrators from far, from my chamber I call. Take the story that I've told & may you tell it to all...
& so it began, that this poor little man
Took off through the bog with...
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Categories:
maggots, allusion, bereavement, heart, lost love, pain, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
SolutionistSOLUTIONIST:
Drenched soul placed on a bench,
Avengers revenging not ready to repent;
Edge of grudges they always entrench,
Dreading of fate, that's what they depend.
Trends and hypes risen from their wrench;
Pitching and hitching bit of all been said,
Mashed...
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Categories:
maggots, allah, angel, god,
Form:
Lyric
Why Are We HereWhere do we come from? Where are we going? Why are we here?
Philosophers rack their brains over these questions
Saints and poets alike try to come to grips with them
But do they concern the...
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Categories:
maggots, life, philosophy, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Under the Mango TreeI ask for answers to my problem around midday, carpenters nailing tables beyond their voices. Thinkers building fence of gold, wiping the devil under the shadow of death. Callers piecing information together to make me...
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Categories:
maggots, allusion, anger, confidence,
Form:
ABC
Dark Angels of HighgateEnough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward, say, Golubushka, make me...
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Categories:
maggots, death,
Form:
Sestina
IN AGONY of IN the HADES FLAMES FOR ALL ETERNITY-
In agony in this flame on
"Intriguing drooling’s corpses conveying in hells caverns
Awaiting cooling sprinted saliva
Make it stop eternity damnation
Bleeding souls gnashing and biting
Demons engulfing, inviting
Broods of vipers, wrath to come
In agony in...
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Categories:
maggots, analogy, angst, anxiety, death, horror, humanity, lost,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Alms Za Try N To Reach Out As Legatee WannabeAlms Za Try'n To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe
Yukon pots sib bully challah me Jude
dish hiss literary panhandler schlepping
along virtual figurative boulevard Asia
brogue kin bloke rattling tin cup aware
how quickly passersby dodge away as
if I...
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Categories:
maggots, dream, fate, happiness, hope, humanity, humorous, joy,
Form:
Narrative
Winnowing WindsNo winds are winnowing enough
To put a quill back in the hands of the dead poet
Or confidence back in the trachea of the strangled speaker
In me
Because no words are as vile
As no words at all
Where...
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Categories:
maggots, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Can of WormsWhat's the problem is, the world is full of genocide
braking up rainbows
Polluting the skies, the skies
And still born children, old men fallen
Mothers and children crying, balling
fallen they fell down and
This world is just a Pandora's...
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Categories:
maggots, addiction, america, appreciation, assonance, caregiving, celebration, change,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
SargassoSargasso
..by D Johnson
Fourteen days adrift time slowly slipped
on the good ship Cavalier
Becalmed, morose, no water they sipped
drank rum to calm their fear
The fog was thick o'er water and ship
On the...
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Categories:
maggots, angstdeath, old, sea, water, day, death, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey Through the NightmareI took a walk on a midnight road, to search for that which was yet untold
My quest was one of question, to find meaning to my mind's night action
To the dream world state, where I...
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Categories:
maggots, adventure, anxiety, destiny, dream, imagery, imagination, night,
Form:
Free verse
Modern Perishing DaughtersNow young ladies arrive at the meeting,
Now wearing clothes that are quite
exposing bodily parts,
Now the chairman before he can tell them the agenda,
Now he is looking at them astonishing and he makes them sit...
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Categories:
maggots, beauty, creation, education,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Syrian GraveyardUnnumbered human corpses
mutilated and spread
like illegally-shot elephants in Waza Park!
From ‘man know thyself’
to ‘man hates himself’-
humans mutilate humans!
Future-bound glorious infants,
feeble moms
and luck-abandoned dads
bombed, suffocated, shot and slain
by politico-economic drunks!
Yawning stomachs here,
blood-dripping arms there,
open-mouth frozen heads...
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Categories:
maggots, war,
Form:
Verse
HomeHOME. By Ted Bundy
There is a place not far from here where purple maggots are the size of deer, pink frogs are there wearing bowties and hats, now put your hands together for the...
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Categories:
maggots, animals,
Form:
Prose Poetry
DoaDark Side of the Sixties
peace brother hey man i just scored some bennies it’s really far out i’m speedin like a mother wanna buy some you won’t get busted i know this cat who’s tight...
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Categories:
maggots, addiction, dark, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
This Is My BattlegroundHelplessness invades
into my life and into my world
Chaos; Disorder
Helplessness invades
trying to imprison you in a box of no choices
:A box made of tinted glass
buried under the old, dry earth
without any openings but the small split...
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Categories:
maggots, god, imagery, inspiration, jesus, self,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Night Vigil CandlesTo my rivers of thinking needles in my heart to the haters’ smile goes to the cake love, I cannot stop lamenting to lemonade. My comrades they were sealed in plastics bags to pontiff to...
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Categories:
maggots, allusion, voyage,
Form:
Didactic
An English LifeAn English Life
It is midnight the Milk train pulls into darnall station
No ordinary passengers here
Steelworkers with their families
Loaded with fishing tackle, sandwiches and maggots
The Fossdyke in Lincolnshire, their destination
The fare Half a crown for happiness
The...
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Categories:
maggots, childhood, happiness, passion, education, fish,
Form:
Free verse