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Of the Dreaded Scourge Currently Afflicting the Municipality and Environ of My Nativity and Youth
This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something...

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Categories: scourge, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form:
Foliate Scourge
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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scourge, death, nature
Form: Haiku
Prejudice a Scourge
A scourge
Of mankind.
Hate
A person
Before we talk and walk
That is no way Right.
It is every way Wrong.
want a special
kind
Of prejudice.
wish  to pre-judge
Everyone
beautiful
Lovely
gorgeous
Redeemed
Forgiven
And
love them
feel them
like them
Before...

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Categories: scourge, forgiveness, freedom, giving, heart,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Scourge of the West
The meanest man in town,
That everybody feared.
Shot anybody down,
When anybody neared.

The scourge of the West,
And the ultimate sinner.
The Devil gets the best,
From Dirty Dick Skinner.

Had...

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Categories: scourge, death, december, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Dandruff Scourge
My shoulders are alive with dandruff
Been blessed with it since I was a pup
Why me I shout
This frustration I spout
Maybe shove dandruff shampoo up my...

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Categories: scourge, fun,
Form: Limerick
Scourge
Tired of the sufferation
Real menace of earths apparition
Dont judge me with my appearance
We are the great ones
No time to mingle with pagans
No religion 
I believe...

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Categories: scourge, inspiration
Form: ABC



Scourge
God,these companies are a scourge!
Please stop ringing me
is all I urge.
Ringing me every day,
why don't you
just go away.
I don't want to take
your call,
I might not...

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Categories: scourge, angst,
Form: Free verse
Scourge
I sit on a chair facing a round table
    Bones weak, muscle aches- unable
    I lay my hands on...

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Categories: scourge, grief, pain, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Scourge
as you stand still, i move within and throughout you, slipping into the spaces you have yet to discover about yourself. 
i cling to the...

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Categories: scourge, addiction, pride,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Breath Taking Scourge
It started when he coughed.
Then we made jokes and laughed,
Hoping the curse we are is vindicated.
But the malady on lungs it feasted.
In its toxic smolder...

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Categories: scourge, africa, god, grave, grief,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Modern Scourge
Pandemic raging around our world
Covid-19, Delta and Omicron
Deny it not too many interred
Don't drop the ball we will fight on.

True we have rights but remember...

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Categories: scourge, courage, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dandruff Scourge
My shoulders are alive with dandruff
Been blessed with it since I was a pup
Why me I shout
This frustration I spout
Maybe shove dandruff shampoo up my...

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Categories: scourge, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Scourge of Addiction
Heroin, China white, or just smack, took him
into lost dreams and an altering of gritty reality
Chasing the dragon, didn’t seem enough
to balm a wounded psyche
Losing...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scourge, addiction, drug, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
The Scourge of the Future
March 12, 2022

The glass ball slips from my grasp

Broken shards scrape the surface

I let the ground taste my tears

The droplets leave behind unmarked graves...

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Categories: scourge, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Scourge
The Scourge
Written: by Miracle Man
4/5/2020

An invisible scourge
 has caused life to take a new direction.
Our days have become a time of uncertainty,
and Social Distancing has...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scourge, angst, death, emotions, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things