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Best Catastrophe Poems

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


Premium Member Morning Coffee Catastrophe
The morning seemed quiet when I got up from my bed,
The air was still, as I shook the cobwebs from my head.

I walked slowly into...

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Categories: catastrophe, morning,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity or Death

Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming, 

Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...

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Categories: catastrophe, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers...

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Categories: catastrophe, adventure, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: catastrophe, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In This Time of Looming Dark, Look To the True Light
In This Time Of Looming Dark, Look To The True Light

World is dark and racing fast into hell
grab a coin, toss it in a wishing...

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Categories: catastrophe, art, creation, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Climate Change Is No Joke
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.

Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And...

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Categories: catastrophe, earth, environment, fire, pollution,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catastrophe, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Savage Garden
sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catastrophe, allusion, society,
Form: Rhyme
Who Am I
Daughter  of Mary and  Louis
(Named after my late grandmother ) 

My name is  Charmaine
a name originated from latin
Charmaine means -a song

Eldest of...

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Categories: catastrophe, prejudice, , western,
Form: Bio
Gift To Myself
I spin, faster and faster…    
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my...

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Categories: catastrophe, break up, emotions, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corona Virus Cov-19
CORONA VIRUS (COV-19)

The Black Death, or bubonic plague, which happened nearly 700 years ago, (in the three year period of 1347 to 1351 in which...

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Categories: catastrophe, anxiety, death, faith, fear,
Form: Narrative
Life Is War
Life is war

Life is war....
we go to battle every single day,
feeling more and more like castaways,
in this ever churning sea


Oh, oh, life is war....
with each...

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Categories: catastrophe, conflict, courage, endurance, future,
Form: Lyric
Pop Corn
buttered politics 

            a corny catastrophe 
  
     ...

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Categories: catastrophe, environment, political,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Am I Ptsi Or Ptsd
I am not good memories
I am not very kind
I am your history
Stuck in your mind

If you let me break you I must
Turn your life into...

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Categories: catastrophe, abuse, anxiety, bereavement, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confessions In Her Confidence -
I know where she prays within the necessity of nightfall
inside the Poets' Pantheon, an isolated Idol
they all came, close as envy can to care,
flowers and...

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Categories: catastrophe, nature,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things