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Best Agonising Poems

Below are the all-time best Agonising poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of agonising poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: agonising, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative



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Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates a murder time and time again, 
As the...

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Categories: agonising, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
The Bare Infinitive and the Meaning of Life
THE BARE INFINITIVE

Look: up above the stratosphere 
Outside the earth's blanket veneer
Beyond planets stars and galaxy 
Past even faintest nebulae

Far from the pull of gravity
Free...

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Categories: agonising, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Diary Day 1
I was meeting me girlfriend , sexy Cherry Russ
When I saw her hands go up to her mouth and she did cuss
There was this whooshing...

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Categories: agonising, funnyme, me,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Power Flower
Flower power

“If you’re going to
San Francisco be sure to
wear a flower 
in your hair”
long and shaggy
shagged longing wild

And to Berlin or
Paris for that 
matter to...

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Categories: agonising, love,
Form: Free verse



Blackness
Blackness…
I’m afraid
I can feel it, so dense
It knows me… it holds me
As it to keep me in suspense

Where am I? 
I’m terrified, my throat is...

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Categories: agonising, death, fantasyme, fire, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Checkmate
why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?

Arthur...

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Categories: agonising, death, metaphor, war,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath a Milky Moon
Then:


Desire enveloped us,
stoking fierce passions,
beneath a milky moon,

your abandoned kisses,
left me breathless,
under a starlit sky,

love silenced our nights,
a serene peace settling,
filling empty desolation,

at rest at...

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Categories: agonising, love
Form: I do not know?
Terminal Cancer
Cancer it breaks cancer it takes
It erodes and corrodes body and soul
Lingers and takes hold  cant be stopped or controlled
Terminal is with an apparent...

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Categories: agonising, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lonely Death, Fate of a Lost Soul
Lonely Death, Fate Of A Lost Soul

Ron sat in the dark alley with urined soaked pants
muttering in a drunken stupor one of his many rants
Facial...

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Categories: agonising, addiction, dark, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Pains of Motherlessness
(a poem by Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele) 
Sympathizing with every motherless child. 

The Pain of Motherlessness 
Is far beyond measure 
Especially for a green mind. 

Begins...

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Categories: agonising, caregiving, childhood, death, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Crystalline Waters
Crystalline waters


Spring of life,
Traverses newer paths,
Trace the flow of crystalline waters,

Waterfall,
inspires to meditate,
Serenity is immediate,

Stand at shore,
waters buzzing galore,
Furore engulfs agonising throes,

Sets new rhythm,
Tunes the...

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Categories: agonising, life, simile,
Form: Crystalline
Baby Born Today
Numera omnes qui ingrediuntur hic omissa spe...
                  ...

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Categories: agonising, dark, deep, destiny, life,
Form: Verse
I Once Was a Dreamer
I once was a dreamer
Meaning i once was young
Feeling like the world was in 
the palm of my hands
Nothing could ruin my well 
thought out...

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Categories: agonising, absence
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Violin
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see...

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Categories: agonising, music, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

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