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Best Awfulness Poems

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


The Alphabet of Awfulness Part1
This is poetry for us all when you can’t find the words.


Acerbic, angry, awful is this poems dream.
Bad, boring, balderdash are its major themes.
Childish, contemptuous,...

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Categories: awfulness, funny, imagination, on writing
Form: Verse



In the Dark Ghost Room
I think feel a breeze
A breeze and a touch of horror
Something makes my breath seize
The stings of inner torture

The beast  of  the dark...

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Categories: awfulness, adventure, mystery, me, dark,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ice In the Veins
With a silence that cut through the laughter
She entered the room, bitterness
Edged around her features, portraying
Cruelty with an unfeeling sword of darkest
Gloom, dread so dismal...

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Categories: awfulness, anger, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Cellar Door
There is a woodpile in my in-laws’ cellar, and some coal, but other rumored things also.
And it has been there a long time since anyone...

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Categories: awfulness, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Said
She is odd, they said.
She won’t talk to you.
She is stuck up.
She is mean.

He did not believe them.
Them who had lied about him also when...

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Categories: awfulness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Thank You
Thank you – Zamreen Zarook

Thank you is a sweet word in the nature,
You may be a guy of adventure,
May be you are a person of...

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Categories: awfulness, age, allah, courage, day,
Form: Rhyme
Dismayed
What was going through your head
When you decided to end your life
Did you consider your love ones at all 
Leaving behind your sons and wife

Failing...

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Categories: awfulness, death, sad, suicide,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poetry Slam
When I was younger so much younger than today, I used to go to lots of poetry events. There was something called Red Sky that...

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Categories: awfulness, angst, culture, how i
Form: Prose Poetry
Trash Talking
You indicated I don’t listen.
I respectfully disagree.
I hear you.
I just don’t like what you have to say.
Pretending to ignore you takes tremendous effort.
Quick to dismiss
that...

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Categories: awfulness, depression, fear, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Week 1 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Jack Gilbert'
A Brief For The Defense 

Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies 
are not starving someplace, they are starving 
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils....

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Categories: awfulness, joy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Empty
Easily are fires put out by tears and fears
There is a heaviness I feel in the darkness
It was once all lit up all around me—
I...

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Categories: awfulness, anxiety, courage, cry, deep,
Form: Free verse
Foil Between Love and Lust
THE FOIL BETWEEN LOVE AND LUST


Who dares me; I lust, to hold utter sway over the flesh!
I love, but can at least assume claim upon...

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Categories: awfulness, analogy, desire, emotions, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Was the Girl They Found My Girl
She gave me an angry look.
Neither her face or eyes were familiar.  
The hope I had been counting on for three days, dissipated.

This mean-looking...

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Categories: awfulness, dark, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For What You'Ve Wrought Toward Me
August 15 Scripture Meditations Based on Daniel 4-6

Key Verse – Daniel 4:2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high...

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Categories: awfulness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Murder
The Murder 
Bombs are falling hundreds are killed many of them children 
and we shake our heads in dismay, something has to be
 done to...

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Categories: awfulness, courage, cry,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things