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Best Acrimony Poems

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Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: acrimony, dark, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: acrimony, dark, halloween,
Form: Terza Rima
Unhappy Anniversary
Shaking in trembles, tremor within. 
A delicate pivot, shifts in separation.
Consolation comforts, the loss of win.
My first year of divorce, set in liberation. 

Bushwhacked, travelling...

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Categories: acrimony, absence, anniversary, break up,
Form: Rhyme
The Insatiable White Creatures
Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
They came, greedy and insatiable white creatures,
Cloaked in prim pretense,
Every curve of their features seemed to express a...

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Categories: acrimony, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Justice
Choked by the incense of poetic justice,
I volunteered to be slain for the betterment of humanity.
The paintings of my ink on white sheet were witnesses,
When...

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Categories: acrimony, peace
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Etheral Empress -
Inspired by the Bridal painting of the Empress Elisabeth of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire -

Elegance, strength as elegance,
elegance of spirit personified as if this...

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Categories: acrimony, tribute,
Form: Romanticism
The Word
Alpha and Omega, in the beginning was the word
Made spirit, made flesh, instinct, emotion, passion,
Apotheosis of all human experience!
For primeval man and woman, one breath,
One...

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Categories: acrimony, celebration,
Form: Verse
Consanguinity
The augury of him in Crimea was so
That Ekaterina said she was tired of sandwiches
But I did have black tea, black Latvian bread with her...

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© Amit Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acrimony, conflict,
Form: Chastushka
African Pride
African Pride
Our people are not a folk who bow down their heads,
Hide their hands in between their laps,
Or turn their backs to their foes in...

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Categories: acrimony, africa,
Form: Verse
Pantheism
Not again will I profess 
my faith in a personal God
Nor its religions, rituals and rites --
The creator and breeder of acrimony,
rivalry, retribution, fear and...

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Categories: acrimony, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Path To Love
Love is won, then it conquers all through patience
But that's impossible without being kind
The two above build one to be honest
Suppressing all the feelings of...

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Categories: acrimony, love,
Form: Sestina
The Hyper-Logos of Good Living
The Hyper-Logos of Good Living  

A poem about how to live a more balanced and harmonious life inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

Avoid being vicious...

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Categories: acrimony, friendship, happiness, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Ballad
Et Lux In Tenebris Lucet
Et lux in tenebris lucet

Oh the roads I’ve travelled, things I’ve seen,
People I’ve known, devastation I’ve sown,
Cannot replace the love and grace or
A seat at...

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© Angel Fire  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acrimony, abuse, addiction, anger, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Scared
Scared
   by Odin Roark

Fear saved the fly
The spider wept

Fear kept men alive
While Napalm paved the way

Fear keeps the 1% insulated
Handlers and mental bodyguards...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acrimony, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Rulers and Looters
I was told in the beginning
    That a wish may not well be  unicorn
    With two winged thrust-thronged
...

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Categories: acrimony, political
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs