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Cankering Poems - Poems about Cankering

Cankering Poems - Examples of all types of poems about cankering 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 cankering.

Premium Member World Stages of a Disease
...As psoriasis; old scoros is' With vulgarity; of method-biz Darkening all hearkening Bloated out ego-cankering Blood money his diocease!......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, allegory, allusion, conflict, education,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Round the Corner
...Lightly do the carefree cries of kids carry on the wind As they cavort in the quad during recess. It is in such moments their trails of glory find expression While I struggle to remember vestiges ......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, anxiety, hope, sad,
Form: Free verse



Parable of Wretched Malcontent
...Not content with just penurious loaves Wretched pauper for richer diet strove Seeking treasure from a wealthier trove Delicate crumbs from hearty stoves; Pungent fruit from well-stocked groves Poach......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, christian,
Form: Rhyme


Jaded Valentine
...Roses were glazed red My fertile heart to woo Cankering jealousy did spread Bright petals now jaundiced hue Violets were silted blue Noble ambitions to thread Blossoms with intemperate juices did st......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Ambiguous Desire
...Mongrel, I smell you miles away Returning through the dingy dark From rummaging waste and decay Till you putrid like them, can mark A skunk's trail home. What germ you breed Now to infect my pure des......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, passion,
Form: Rhyme



Harbor of Incontinence
...In loves harbor moored in the dock of regression and anchored in the quicksand of incontinence as briny waves of inconstancy wash over my jaded bough scouring my white-washed deck over and over  ......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, lost love, social
Form: Free verse
Forecast Ii
...Storm clouds gather over the sea, omens Tell of a coming agony Young lovers stay, O hear me, maidens Most in marriage long to be free The world's social order in disarray Engines faster the extr......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, visionary
Form: Verse
Rhymes
...I want set fire To white paper Make black char into pale pictures of ash To burn desire Till the vapor Like broken scintillations as sunlight crash Though I dream, yet Still I hunger Still ......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, angst, art, black african
Form: Rhyme
Social Camera
...Across the street and down the lane The long line curves around again And men shivering in the wintry rain Tell adversity's avarice in each refrain This is the worst of time the best is gone Thi......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, depression, history, natural disastersnight,
Form: Verse
Divorce ...(To Rg)
...My entire history is not as it should be I am always now a proximal potential Twisted into whirlwinds by latent agony And you the cause of fate's differential Of mass and fortune, of virtue Slim......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, angst, life, love, me,
Form: Verse
I Am a Maroon
...I am a Maroon Flesh and blood and everything My spirit cries against the toxic air Of cities, and broken moon Perched on skyscrapers Surveying ruin Blowing with greasy scraps of paper Through ......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, allegory
Form: Free verse
Capitalism Dilemma
...Clawed eyes bleeding the red acid of tears Anguished hearts with piper's music in their ears Pleasures throves of greed and selfishness Indicts our vision of the citadel's shining Towards a bette......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, political
Form: Acrostic
Suicidal Note
...There on the shore, before the ocean, I talked with God- devoid of motion Like windless, cloudy night I stood Becoming One with ease and solitude. In lack of anger and of morbid noise- Possessed......Read the rest...
Categories: cankering, confusion, death, lost love,
Form: Epitaph

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