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Best Agonized Poems

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


The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agonized, abuse, analogy, black african
Form: Haibun



Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: agonized, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Blood of Christ
Blood of Christ did seep from every pore
as in Gethsemane he knelt to pray.
Who can know the suffering He bore?

He struggled; to His Father he...

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Categories: agonized, christian,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member O' Man, Thou Art In Arrogance Oft Lost
O' Man, Thou Art In Arrogance Oft Lost

Within earth's vast herds mysteries abound
as man walks in shadows that prance and play.
Life is an ocean that...

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Categories: agonized, appreciation, art, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
The Beast
Anger is an alarm to the inner beast,
With clenched fists and teeth,
Slowly drawing hefty breaths,
Biting into words and stamping the floor beneath
He’s deformed and blind,...

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Categories: agonized, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse



16 Years of War
~My True Story 16 Years Of War~

!6 years of living in fear every minute, 16 years living with barely 
any electricity,water, food,hurt from humiliation standing...

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Categories: agonized, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Sabbath Evening Rap Up Sequence (2)
-continued from  "Sabbath Morning Rap".

..and so brethren,
We're lost in the lust of loving lies
Conceived and retrieved as alibies.
to woo what we would instead of...

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Categories: agonized, faith, forgiveness, love, musicme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Pits of Pain
Inside scrapings of darkness
how restless and doomed,
the bellow crashing in like
an agonized moon; 

the tunnel hears blood whooshing
in pits full of rain,
hurling damn imaginings
of her...

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Categories: agonized, angst,
Form: Personification
Can'T Sip Alone From That Cup
Necessarily to Samora


On the stream, a cork was thrown
She sank in
She tripped on
She was picked up
A beach, a wave and a sailing ship don’t matter.
You...

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© Kanour Med  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agonized, lost love, love, me,
Form: Prose
Dancing
Share, discover. 
With lips and fingers and skin
Tasting, touching and feeling
With tongue rolling in the wet longing

Silent cry, pleading
Agonized shiver seeking release
Of holding back to...

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Categories: agonized, body, dance, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member World of Magic
Banished into the hall for the art of magic
Cracked and crackled he practices with despair
As loneliness consumed and his life purged in doubt
This magician whose...

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Categories: agonized, fantasylife, loneliness, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Has Risen
amid the bleats of lambs
and the moo of cows 
in a far away manger
a baby, swaddled in rags was born
     
though...

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Categories: agonized, blessing, celebration, easter, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Writing Under the Stain
in an
          angst-             ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agonized, poetry, sad,
Form: Free verse
She Lives
She flushes and drops bright eyes
to hide my image...
I cup her face and drown it.

     [me]

She breathes hesitantly, mouth
Pressed and obstinate...
I...

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Categories: agonized, love
Form: Choka
Premium Member Fig Leaf
at times the soul gets clenched
in an unspeakable grief
in a demoniac grip, it chokes and wriggles
the pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked...

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Categories: agonized, angst, conflict, depression, lost
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs