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Travesty Poems - Poems about Travesty

Travesty Poems - Examples of all types of poems about travesty to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for travesty.
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog just me and mine dark shadow slinking along outer limits of the edge of night doth blog passivity, the p......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme



Wounded Sigh
...Your words burped toxins. Like water, I quenched my thirst. A portion too hexed to gulp, I choked in travesty of devotion. My favourite promises are broken ones. My solace, found in empty wo......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, angst, black love, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Iowa City
...(A bit of fun for Thomas W. Case - I think he lives in Iowa) Hawkeye pride burns bright in Iowa City, the place where Tennessee Williams learned to curse. Iowa City hosts the 4th of J......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, community, food, identity, paris,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member COVID-19
... Her trace of terror remains in every home. The fear of death lingers wherever she roams. Although improved and four years removed, We will always remember her tyrannical rule; And never f......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, death, sick,
Form: Couplet
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month Which acknowledgement ought to be year round, similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic unconditional acceptance and ......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse



My Poetic Mind
...Is like a time bomb of words waiting to explode...driven up the road to a new way of thinking....blinking rhythms with words...bringing myself to mind shrinking antics linking...my poetic mind to an ......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope - II
...This intrusion on my psyche tosses a faint desire for up-smelling roses. My shrink says this urge imposes losses that the former countereffect poses. I'm unable to muster the streng......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
...Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. George Oppen <>...Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, analogy, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sickle Moon
... One mystic blue night dead still, I’ll steal the silver full moon, break it into sharp shards, and stow them in the backyard under the shadow of the creepy cloud. The dark devils will en......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, abuse, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
SHALL I JUST WALK AROUND the SUN?
...SHALL I JUST TAKE A WALK AROUND THE SUN? Shall I just take a walk around the sun? Though, this is hard and demanding yet, copacetic, Rough, tough and full of thorns, a trip or son, As the harma......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
SHALL I JUST WALK AROUND the SUN?
...SHALL I JUST TAKE A WALK AROUND THE SUN? Shall I just take a walk around the sun? Though, this is hard and demanding yet, copacetic, Rough, tough and full of thorns, a trip or son, As the harma......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Falling Leaves
...Now perched on high my eye perceives Reflected amber rays of light Crimson orange and golden leaves That still adorn the trees so bright Soon their dying a travesty Heard from a distan......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
The Enemy Within
...There’s nothing sylvan about the Ivy League Subversive in nature all take and no give In period camouflage they feign to belong Their hatchlings abhorrent together they throng Our country’s......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
...My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors. whilst searching for my sanity, I've become my own worst enemy. In this cauldron of despair, time is like sand in my hand - an oxymoron poetic paradox......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Funeral
...The mocking is shocking Aunty Mavis stopped rocking Then mourners were flocking A cavalcade blocking The streets of South Dorking Rumours and talking Like vultures out squawking Proportionate......Read the rest...
Categories: travesty, death, family, forgiveness, god,
Form: Rhyme

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