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Battering Poems - Poems about Battering

Battering Poems - Examples of all types of poems about battering 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 battering.
Premium Member The Last Leaf
... I smile at myself for being so sentimental, but how lonely it looks - the last leaf on the cherry tree. Its countless companions who shared and hung together through months of heat, fur......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, autumn, fruit, life, time,
Form: Free verse



Break on through
...Take a battering ram to the other side The recoil will do me harm A knife and spoon will suffice Break the gates violently with arms It will seal itself again and entice It will swallow ......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, addiction, extended metaphor, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Fish in Key West
...Scientists describe it as an event In the hot paradise of Key West Condos festivals hotels Dancing feet under bells of lights I’ve sung Margaritaville there Myself Beneath the docks Pan ......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, betrayal, earth, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By the King's Decree
...Sanctified, sealed, once written in blood Shipped on the seas and fought in the mud Swords and arrows and battering rams Sparing the rich to sacrifice lambs Multitudes sent to battle by h......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Stillness of Silence
...For few days between the shaking and shattering of my consciousness, The soft arms of Silence Wrap around my aching torso And pretend to soothe the ever-rapid Battering of my heart. In tho......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, anger, bible, body, change,
Form: Free verse



The Truth Of This Magnitude
...The Truth Of This Magnitude” Obstinate defiance from an indignant child Consummate reliance on the spirit of the Wild Intricate compositions of meticulous art A syndicate of derision that ......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, creation, humanity, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crawl
...I often wonder are you even slightly aware of what you're doing to me? How you're reaching inside me, touching me, and where? Your words inflame me and then Sometimes they're not enough I w......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, love,
Form: Rhyme
Psychologically still thirteen
...Psychologically still thirteen Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days familiarization with me would entail bringing the avid listener into my private mancave hideaways less a physical place th......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Death of a Virgin
...Death of a Virgin I lost my virginity...to another woman, like myself. I am a Lesbian. I cracked my knuckles as the prosecutor began to beam away from me. I am a virgin whore. Those thoughts co......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waves Role
...The awake awakened with wide eyes wide-opened. Calls of the screaming sea, calling calls ceaselessly. Pound-pounding ears attend, weakening abandon, wend sea claps yonder, and then only beyond the......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, sea,
Form: Rhyme
The Tempest
...Do you feel the great turning, the maelstrom coming around, spitting sparks of searing birds that circle each other screaming in a language like pain? Blisters burning feathers, beaks and eyes till t......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, death, environment, mental illness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Summer Rain
...Listen to the raging summer rain Mercilessly battering the ground Bouncing like rubber balls all around. Rain is a little miracle gained In the desert when it comes unbound. My head is made si......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, miracle, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Mary Fields
...~ Mary Fields… Was born into slavery somewhere back east she thought it was Hickman County, Tennessee Growing up, she had learned how to read and write though she'd spent her childhood in captivi......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Leaflike
...Blossoms sprout in the heart, the entrails of the start. Now things woken with life, for survival they strive. At last the evils sicken, life is never a given. The battering of living, for b......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, death, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rage's Iron Grip
...Among the boulders that gaze on with proud regard When times are rigorous, having patience is hard Water gently brushes the riverbanks over time Blue river flowing slowly, crickets c......Read the rest...
Categories: battering, analogy, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Couplet

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