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Best Catastrophic Poems

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


Premium Member The Labrador
If I wasn't there,
the rain swollen clouds
would have still dumped 
their dark weight over the bay
and through a gaping tear,
let down a curtain of sunlight
to...

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Categories: catastrophic, care, creation, dog, earth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Art of Forgiveness
To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune 
to your illusive m a n t r a...

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Categories: catastrophic, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadowland
 Shadowland 

Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate 
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A...

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Categories: catastrophic, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Poets In Denial
Sing ye poets of stunning birds and butterflies wings.
Kiss ye, your own,Muse pen, on divine parchment, scribblings!

Ride in gentle winds upon your colorful, faux unicorn
Your...

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Categories: catastrophic, humanity, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member To All of You
There are times we are left to cope
With situations that drain our hope

Leaving us full of despair
At how some people just don't care

About the evil...

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Categories: catastrophic, angst, death, dedication, faith,
Form: Couplet



Probing the Unconscious Space
If the unbearable lightness of being has pushed you to the brink of catastrophic meltdown,
walk to the edge of our flat two-dimensional existence 
and take...

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Categories: catastrophic, imagination, introspection, mystery, space
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thar Blows Maria: Collaboration With New Additions
Too many hurricanes are causing havoc this season.  We might as well have a limerick collaboration about them since they seem to be in...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catastrophic, storm,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Do Not Just Whisper
1.
WHAT?

Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool of
Unintelligible madness, and let calamitous folly,
Anchor its obscure ships of destruction in our
Harmonious hearts?

Or

Are we going to...

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Categories: catastrophic, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mayan Declared
The year is 2025
I have come back to my past
To witness the Mayans
Who said Earth would not last

2012
Was the year they declared
That the planet we...

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Categories: catastrophic, angst, death, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How, When and Why
According to my neighborhood, 
(All experts on the topic), 
Opinions vary, none too good, 
One called it "Catastrophic". 

Exterminators sigh, refrain 
Condolences, I'm sorry. 
At...

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Categories: catastrophic, adventure, allegory, allusion, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Give Me a Break I Am Pms Ing
I may slap you, curse you, smack you
Don’t get too serious honey, its monthly fun
I am PMS ing and my trauma is true
Be my gentleman...

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Categories: catastrophic, caregiving, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, growing
Form: Sonnet
Science Friction
The umbra of my Soul's eclipse,
Stellar dweller cosmic ships.
Solar flares and lunar lairs-
Blackest Holes and deep abyss...
Photo gamma satellite,
Telescopic magnetite.
Anti-Matter fusion shatters
Super-Nova afterlife
Gravimetric poly-synthetic-
Nano vortex...

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Categories: catastrophic, space, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Power of One
The Power of One

Computer age impasse...the strength of one;
the fear of stroke of midnight had begun.
One second only, how our lives would change;
our current ways...

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Categories: catastrophic, computer, history, horror, new
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Mental Massacre
My mind opened releasing the remnants of Pandora’s Box
Revealing the wraths of a complete paradox
Eradicating the thought process like a mental massacre
Destroying your clarity until...

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Categories: catastrophic, slam,
Form: Rhyme
It Can'T Be Art
It can’t be art 

Spun in a windstorm of caustic insisting
Plastered like mud on the walls of Pompeii
Frescos of joy before charcoal was misting
Writing in...

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Categories: catastrophic, angst,
Form: Rhyme

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