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Cruelty Poems - Poems about Cruelty

Cruelty Poems - Examples of all types of poems about cruelty 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 cruelty.
Saturday Noon
...Saturday noon under the sun Hot and cold, not so fun Braving wind and scorching heat Standing long is not a treat But I must, I got no choice Even if it wrecks my poise And with aching ......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, time,
Form: Rhyme



A Betrayal Of Friendship
...What a recent shame it's been Tears are falling once again Eyes are red and really swollen After all my faith was stolen Someone I completely trusted With a friendship has now busted All my dre......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, feelings, friendship, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aftermath of Flood
... Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain, Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign, Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day, As tree......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, grief, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That was Then This is Now
...That was then when the truth was a lie scorching the bitter tongue of unseen circumstances that crawled on the belly of youthful unrest running toward the darker quarters where Angels left wear......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yet
..."If all the very rich experienced hunger. There may be no more hunger. If all the greedy experienced their own slavery, there may be no more slaves." ......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, love,
Form: Rhyme



Echoes of Sorrow mourning the Loss of Innocence
...It grieves me to witness our youth's demise, Each day, each hour, another life unties. Daughters, sons, announced dead, bereft, In a world where cruelty has left. What have we done to merit suc......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, anger, anxiety, death, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member FAMILY LOVE EQUILIBRIUM
...FAMILY. LOVE. EQUILIBRIUM A pivotal point In this transformational journey Life is all about family and love. Art of seeing both s......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, family, home, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Requiem for a Lonely Woman
...In the outskirts, where whispers weave through the wind, there stands a farmhouse, its timbers groaning with secrets, a silhouette etched against the horizon’s fading light. Once, it was alive, ......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, house, loneliness, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member flock of phantoms
... blackbirds … innumerable … clouds and washes of them I grin to myself - symbolism … you taught me that and more … (and less) you taught me the difference between love and lust … and Love ......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, analogy, heartbreak, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words
...Words of cruelty inflict invisible wounds... Do they ever heal?......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, bullying,
Form: Senryu
Whose Fault Mine Or God
...Here I stand, burdened with remorse, Each word I write, another solemn promise, Life's cruelty, they say, but I see my own, In choices made, in seeds of hate sown. Does God reside amidst this w......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, appreciation, betrayal, bible, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Portrait: Of a Lady
...She had never felt so loved, past threshold of turning back to familiar home There was comfort in arms that held her statuesque form, heart fine honed His cruelty made her kind, bound to commit......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, hurt, integrity, relationship, strength,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Legendary Teacher and Student
...Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War, Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore. At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight. At eight, her mother died, and h......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, education, hero, inspirational, school,
Form: Rhyme
Betrayal's Harvest
... I couldn't believe the word on the streets It ran through every nook and cranny and with urgent feet. The news of a daughter's unkind heart was told. A calculated wanton cruelty unfold. The s......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
I Demand Justice For Ryan Gainer Death
...I demand Justice, For the world's hatred, a blight, Justice for the innocent's tragic plight, Where evil prospers in the night, Like shadows dark, obscuring light. I demand Justice, For ......Read the rest...
Categories: cruelty, 11th grade, dedication, kid,
Form: Elegy

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