Pestering Poems

Premium MemberThe sharp snap of branches masked the bark of distant dogs

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A stolen life. A split-second decision.
Disorganised thoughts, jumbled—
Tangled around an anaesthetised cortex.
Clocks mockingly ticking,
Ticking down inevitability,
As a lone fly buzzes r...
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Categories: pestering, dark, deep, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGrimm's Version of Peter Pan's Perversions

...Most of have heard or read the Adventures of Peter Pan
A boy who never grew up and lived in Never Never Land
The rewritten story goes that Tinkerbell is in love with Pete
but in the original shado...
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Categories: pestering, abuse, drug,
Form: Rhyme


Championship Aspirations Rhapsody Inspiro

...Appassionato Memo



Corporation Status
Pending approval
due to completive pestering
we recognize the following conditions to make
it easier for the fans of the sport to follow.
"Professiona...
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Categories: pestering, music, sports,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberNepenthe

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I am a wounded man who has lost all belief! 
The Grim Reaper will soon be coming like a thief! 
{The fickle sickle of a pestering Jester}
Give me Nepenthe that I may forget my grief,...
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Categories: pestering, drink, longing,
Form: Monorhyme

Incessant Insect

...OHH!!! You Incessant Insect..

You make it hard to direct my energy,

Positively, Peacefully.

Why do you keep pestering me?

Investigating every inch,

Of what you can see.

I'm feeling ...
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Categories: pestering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberI'm a Poet

...I'm a poet
Who are you?
Are you a poet, too?
If you are, do you tell?
Or do you keep it a secret?
Do you share your poems?
or do you hide them away?
Do you have words flowing 
in your head an...
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Categories: pestering, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky

...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...

Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the mont...
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Categories: pestering, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme

Stars

...I look at the stars for hours wondering 
questions fill my mind
I am thinking all the time
Pestering thoughts
Searching for answers never to be found
The world is a huge mystery 
a mystery we m...
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Categories: pestering, absence, allusion, anxiety, universe,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe person I used to be

...As you start to walk out on the way, 
      the way appears.- Rumi  

Tonight, I speak to the moon,  
lunar verses echoing the piercing  
lyrics of an aching heart....
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Categories: pestering, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPixie Petula Penelope

...playful prancing pixie Petula Penelope
prancing in a parade beside Patty and me
preventing platitudes from distracting playboys three
privately pestering both Patty and me...
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Categories: pestering, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HIS MERCY ON US

...August 8 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 54-58

Key Verse – Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, n...
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Categories: pestering, appreciation, bible, blessing, christian,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberCenobite Muse

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My muse keeps pestering like a cenobite, 
chewing my brain like a hungry parasite. 
Pressuring the ink to bleed like acid rain,
catharsis to release perpetual pain. 
Hiding poems that l...
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Categories: pestering, muse,
Form: Masnavi

Premium MemberMadness

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                                                   What's madness but nobility of Soul
                                                    at odds with circumstance
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Categories: pestering, anxiety, emotions, psychological,
Form: Free verse

sheep

...Sheep

I have read and published some of my old poems 
when the world was mint fresh and I believed in the lady in the lake, I saw her swim a moonlit night
know I know she is not there, but a pro...
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Categories: pestering, 12th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberHypnagogic

...My restless thoughts at last stop pestering me.
No consciousness have I when first I’m sleeping.
I long to be submerged in dreams’ deep waters.
Oh, Sandman, guide me past your sandy shoreline
to ...
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Categories: pestering, dream,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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