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Best Catatonic Poems

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


Premium Member Mr. Truly Amazing
Sixteen years old and in a world of her own
Confined to life lived in a wheelchair
Ever since birth, doctors don’t know what went wrong
But, it...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catatonic, animals, inspirationalfamily, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member One Last Deep Sigh
In the morning storm
he hums like a bird,
but words do not form -
for he can't be heard.

Catatonic eyes,
reflect hypnotised.
As he holds back cries
he feels paralysed.

Anguish...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catatonic, depression, perspective, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: catatonic, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Unbroken Mare
In ghostly dreams the horse will come
And feed on my forbidden cereal
Meant for my recalcitrant healing
That filly came a-prancing stealing

O shrouded mare so misted white
Thou...

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Categories: catatonic, horse, hurt, psychological,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Hospitals Are
Hospitals are designed
(a) to make you appreciate your bed at home
(b) to prompt many unanswerable questions 
(c) to facilitate smooth patient care
(d) to never complain...

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Categories: catatonic, appreciation, care, conflict, fun,
Form: List



Premium Member Adios Roseanne
Adios, Roseanne



Roseanne's racist tweet caused big trouble

So she voiced remorse on the double

     The Trump-loving comic

     Appeared...

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Categories: catatonic, celebrity, humor,
Form: Limerick
I Have Become a Predatory Great White Shark
I once was here, then in the blue ocean,
I once was dry, then thrown into commotion. 
I had no clue, for I was in the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catatonic, fear, ocean,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Show Me Television
The era of catatonic self-destruction has risen yet again from boulder-blocked caves,
Whose cavernous stalactite incisors drip with the blood of thorny crowns,
Worn in punitive irony...

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Categories: catatonic, addiction, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape
Running, running, get away,
move aside! I can't stay!

Time is gone and I must go
hurry now,  move too slow.

Heart is racing, pounding loud
press myself against...

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Categories: catatonic, dark, psychological,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Death Comes
Death Comes

All arguments and denials were fruitless;
The deceased fell prey to the Master Thief.

The “One” whose icy-cold touch is . . .
Just Too Cold to...

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Categories: catatonic, change, dark, death, horror,
Form: Lyric
Abominable Alliance
Thru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen...

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Categories: catatonic, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 2
Time moves slower than a rusted windmill on a still day 
as I am unable to avert my stare, frozen in this spot,  
captivated...

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Categories: catatonic, beauty, poetry, , Lullaby,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Bring Friday On
Numb yawn of early Friday crawls
Through drowsy hours, a mind jangles
It twitches and shakes from weariness. Void.

  By 6 am, my still world remains...

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Categories: catatonic, cheer up, morning,
Form: Verse
Happiness Rages Outside Smiles
Happiness rages outside smiles that wend ‘round my cracked doorway sirens fade from 
the street music stops commercials scream dissonant chords walk across cat eyes...

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© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: catatonic, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red
from afar, leaves like uncounted catatonic fires  
huddled close
pinned to the chill air

a pointillist’s love affair with a hundred shades of red

the ground is...

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Categories: catatonic, autumn, color, funeral, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs