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Best Brutal Poems

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


Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brutal, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: brutal, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brutal, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Day Had Come
His day had come, and so He went and prayed.
The woes of all mankind upon him weighed.
His brethren slept; He knew what would befall.
His enemies...

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Categories: brutal, christian, easter,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Pirate Bay
```Pirate Bay the Haiku``` 

pirates fierce and mean 
drowning fish, sea to sea 
parrots on their butt 


```Polly Wants A Cracker``` 

bloodthirst & brutal 
Quartermaster...

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Categories: brutal, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Palette of Picturesque Pigment
Her persona is like 
a portrait 
   of picturesque perfection,
embalmed in 
  bittersweet lavender, 
unseen within depths 
of tributaries of elixir.
If only...

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Categories: brutal, dark, deep, devotion, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cyber Real
Has the convenience of technology 
inoculated us from reality?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I pray the code my soul to keep?
Does your universe live within 4G
Or...

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Categories: brutal, computer, culture, identity, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Came By
I Came By…
(to see you)

You don’t see me. 
I see you, everyday. 
I am afraid to say hello. 
You may say good-bye. 

I just want...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brutal, beautiful, chocolate, cinderella, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

In the deep core of her skin
I feel a human who is no saint  
Cutting out her heart, ripping everything to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brutal, abuse, beauty, dark, emo,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Poetry and Me
“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brutal, how i feel, poems,
Form: Free verse
Arctic Seasoned Disguise
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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...

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Categories: brutal, good night,
Form: Free verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: brutal, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Twisted Tale -Jane's Jewel-
Mardi Gras "The Medieval Story"  

On a hot, heavy night in Orleans,
Joan and Jane were seen rubbing chest on chest
An inviting, intimate moment, to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brutal, adventure, celebration, dark, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ice Cube Pie
I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a...

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Categories: brutal, business, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: brutal, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs