Sting Poems

friend

DEAR FRIEND,
THE END IN FRIEND HITS THE DEEP END,
THE SHADOW I USED TO DEFEND,
AT PRESENT I HAVE NONE TO DEPEND,
ITS AS IF ALL YOU DID WAS PRETEND.

DEAR FRIEND,
WITH THE SHADOWS OF YOU I SPENT,
ALL YOU LEFT WAS A PAINFUL DENT,
CURRENTLY ALL I CAN DO IS VENT, 
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO SERPENT.

DEAR FRIEND,
I NOW
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Categories: sting, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWomen are like Wild Honey

They start thick— 
not the polite kind you stir into tea
not the mild drizzle on breakfast toast
but the kind that runs hot
slow
dangerous 
coating your tongue before you grasp
the price of its pleasure.

They start golden— 
dripping off the comb 
sun pressed into their marrow 
too rich, too syrupy— 
gumming up the gears of your schemes 
too
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Categories: sting, extended metaphor, fire, freedom,
Form: Lyric


Scorpion Sting

Scorpion Sting
 I hide in the dark.
 With a sting, be alert.
 I can vanish in the light.
 I hunt in the night.
 I can draw some blood.
 The anguish is just enough.
 I am manipulative.
 Don’t touch, with temptation.
 I know that I’m kinda creepy.
 At night it’s time to feed.
 Don’t hesitate to
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Categories: sting, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Stung

One bee out of many in  f l i g h t~~~~
Arrived in my garden in f  r  i
                                 
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Categories: sting, anger, fear, flying, funny,
Form: Limerick

Betrayal sting

Betrayal of my Fu, 
Is a knife to heart.
Stabbing so hard, piercing so deep
Makes one's eyes bleed.
                                      
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Categories: sting, 12th grade, break up,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSting in the tale

There once was a donkey from Delhi 
Who dared call a tiger's breath smelly
Tiger  roared out in great rage
Which donkey could not assuage
And ended  up in tiger's belly
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Categories: sting, anger, silly,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberDeath, where is thy sting

Dead good
Dead not good
Dead so very good
Dead or alive not so good
Dead in aspic
Jellified  so fantastic
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Categories: sting, confusion,
Form: Suzette Prime

Sting

The sting in my throat when I swallow that pill 
You know the pill.... that they say is hard to swallow
The knot in my stomach and my heart 
As my mind replays the hurt , the neglect ,that I just want to be pretty and feel loved
The appetite that I lose because I think something
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Categories: sting, confusion, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCupids sting

Our romance began 
I am infected by love 
cupids arrow stings
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Categories: sting, love,
Form: Senryu

The sting

The stinging feeling afterwards
On my thighs
I still just got to lie
"I'm okay"
I try to say. 
Then I put on my fake smile
My overthinking is worth miles
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Categories: sting, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Cold Sting

Yeah.
Bought the ring
Tutti Frutti
Five-karat bling.

Toast a brew
We had a drink
Big scandal grew
Felt the cold sting.

Face tabloid news
Waiting till spring.
Winter time choose 
A Double will fling.

Blue Gucci shoes
Songbird can sing.
Ten years gone past
Didn't mean a thing.

Whole Truth
Without spin
Both lose
Nobody wins.
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Categories: sting, integrity, relationship,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberButterfly Sting Anew

Cold feet weigh the bantam kid whose ears seized phantom
wail risk-taker jargon of win-or-lose bargain.
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Categories: sting, angst, anxiety, evil, fear,
Form: Alexandrine

Premium MemberYes, I Remember Her Venomous Sting

Yes, I Remember Her Venomous Sting

The newfound rock the size of a baseball
I throw it into an angry window
To hear with bursted ear and see glass fall
This hunchback world what the hell does it know
People, crowding earth with their rabbled lives
Amidst this decay, this old dying heap
What of ones' life is happy, does it thrive
Or
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Categories: sting, art, change, imagination, introspection,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberThe Sting of Nettled Showers

To the sound of pelting rain, she woke in early morning
Upon the tattered tin roof, it rhythmically pitter pattered
No sunlight peeked through clouds on daylight's dawning
She thought of him and of the dreams that were shattered,
of the nights she'd spend without end, remorse spawning

Windblown rain pummeled windows, on sills it splashed
Obscured was her view, vision
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Categories: sting, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

Alli Butterfly Sting Dance Bee Love

Alli a girl 

I used to know

From my not to distant past 

Came to me in a dream last night

Once I fell soundly I thought asleep

And that dream was this

She seemingly appeared out of
nowhere and at first kissed me upon 
my cheek honey sweet 

And I began to both simultaneously
go weak at the knee and
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Categories: sting, desire, dream, love,
Form: Free verse

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