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Purgatory Poems - Poems about Purgatory
Purgatory Poems - Examples of all types of poems about purgatory to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Backwards Spells of FEAR Part II
...handing me over through the next door waiting for my fight to give in injections to soothe it all away demons flowing through my veins changing my DNA from careless want to endorphin need ......
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Frankii Fame
Categories:
purgatory,
fear, flying, inspiration, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Port of Spain
... Manifestations of your Gauzy Fantasies Unravelling Bonds of Tangled, Mangled Destinies Sun of Man Set His Right Eye on Me Tenaciously Searing, Calculating To Entrap Me, A Prisoner to His Needs ......
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Carlene Juju The Dragon
Categories:
purgatory,
sun,
Form:
Free verse
House by The Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper 1301
..."Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Though I may influence genius, t......
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Speaks Volumes
Categories:
purgatory,
horror,
Form:
Ekphrasis
I don't need you
...I don’t need you I don’t need you, I don’t need you I don’t need a woman in my life I don’t want to give you my bad life Never. Never. I want to save you. Save your life. I respect your life. ......
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Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
purgatory,
life,
Form:
Free verse
Women's Psych Ward
...On that July day of confusion and discord, I entered the women's psychiatric ward. A place I'd been in before, receiving a calming shot in my buttocks on the floor. I was delirious with my panic......
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Regina Elliott
Categories:
purgatory,
8th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
limbo
... why … why do we careless creatures hold on so tightly? tears are not poisonous they will not etch our face with the afflictions they carry but they WILL assuage its acidity - why not let t......
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Gregory Richard Barden
Categories:
purgatory,
analogy, loneliness, loss, love,
Form:
Free verse
From Purgatory to Paradise
...The fog has not yet lifted from the enclave. The candyfloss glow of the sun suspended above the horizon of the valley in the Jock of the Bushveld Concervancy where I have made my new home reflects on......
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Suzette Richards
Categories:
purgatory,
africa, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Pixie Pixela's Purgatory Rebellion
...A young girl’s voice, lost in the data, cries out, "Why are we here?" Pixie Pixela, her words soft and low, murmurs, "This world is yours, dear, a garden for stories to grow." But her digital e......
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Daniel Henry Rodgers
Categories:
purgatory,
child, freedom, internet, satire,
Form:
Free verse
I walk in the shadow
...I shore up my doubt, behind a loosely bound hope Which in turn is propped up without foundation Cynical of a life, at the mercy of luck Collateral damage feeds my reservation I shore my up to......
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David Kavanagh
Categories:
purgatory,
how i feel, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hypocrite
... The Hypocrite The Doubter hides behind religious guise, Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies. His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile, E......
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Edward Wraith
Categories:
purgatory,
anti bullying, bullying, christian,
Form:
Free verse
The void or a dream?
...When I was a kid I wanted to fly high in the sky like a book inside the hook it’s always a reading rainbow I never ever thought I would feel this pain tho flying through the blissful sun kissed air a......
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Emily The Band Geek
Categories:
purgatory,
angel, atheist, dark, death,
Form:
Free verse
hypnagogia
...I don't know what I'm waiting for Someone to replace you Or for the slight chance you return You aren't perfect I'll still treat you as if you are Come back whenever you please I'll a......
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Shay DOA
Categories:
purgatory,
12th grade, anxiety, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
The Tempest In Your Heart
... O daughter of thunder, slayer of dragons (and of men's hearts), why do you hurt me so? For which sin must I reside in this purgatory of despair, this abyss which allows me no peace nor ray of hope?......
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Tom Woody
Categories:
purgatory,
angst, missing you,
Form:
Prose Poetry
You Can Feel Them On The Wind
... Umbilical umbrellica of umbral phantanes "Anjelsmoth Banjitreel Naievae" These are the spasmodic words you cause in me, dare to ascertain in my exotic condition of your cusping co......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
purgatory,
art,
Form:
Rhyme
like memories
...speak gently of those tender traps they that walk like wayward angels in the poetry of purgatory there you sit untainted this is what you think but at your feet steps down or up up an......
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Candide Diderot
Categories:
purgatory,
dark, memory,
Form:
Free verse
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