Best Charred Poems
Below are the all-time best Charred poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of charred poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
charred, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
Christmas Night ReflectionsFluttering beneath the newly cut
Festive green hollies,
Decked out with heaped drapes
Of freshly fallen snow,
A bold little red breasted Robin,
Busily searching,
Cheerfully hops to and fro.
Darting between...
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Categories:
charred, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Escaping the MedusaThis 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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Categories:
charred, death, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Ba Ba Bad Shepherd BoyWatery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow! a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes...
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Categories:
charred, angst, anxiety, betrayal, child
Form:
Rhyme
Rain Dance
rain dance
Evil takes his victory lap
while ashes like confetti fall.
But demons stay their hands mid-clap,
now doubting they’ve won, after all...
For on the charred and war-stained...
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Categories:
charred, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Dreams of ParadiseSunless days under artic charred skies
frozen rain pelting, making me cry
harsh north winds, chill to the bone
why do I even call this place home?
Dreams of...
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Categories:
charred, love, paradise,
Form:
Free verse
Fire
Fire destroyed my childhood home one dark night,
Inside were all my precious girly things;
Raging, devouring gold flames billowed bright,
Everything gone- I wish dolly had wings.
It...
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Categories:
charred, fire,
Form:
Sonnet
TimberlandWide the mirrored water stretched,
licking green upon the pointed pines, limbs sweeping low and cool.
The creek meandered, soft giggles escaping mossy rocks
where polliwogs swam, nearly,...
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Categories:
charred, betrayal, crush, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Mirror MirrorI look in your eyes
what do I see
A shell of myself
who I used to be
A minuscule fragment
of who I was...
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Categories:
charred, hate, image, mirror, ,
Form:
Free verse
HauntedA hole in the head shooting pain trembles
nightshades coldly down the spine
a soul lost in the land of the living
carried away in darkness
flying inside dark...
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Categories:
charred, animal, dark, dream, light,
Form:
Free verse
Free Falling
"Free Falling"
You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You
If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line
bleeding...
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Categories:
charred, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
Utterly DespicableIsn't it about time that the West and NATO stepped in
To put a stop to brutal aggression by Vladimar Putin
Men bound and shot, with their...
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Categories:
charred, conflict, death, evil, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Living In the Dark
It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.
Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see...
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Categories:
charred, anxiety, dark,
Form:
Monorhyme
Reflections of a Broken MirrorIn shadows deep, where childhood fears reside,
A father's wrath, a son's tormented life,
A torrent of abuse, a soul's despair,
A question lingers, heavy in the putrid...
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Categories:
charred, abuse, child abuse, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Knotty Dogsthe pair stood together by a warm hearth
strong andirons of wrought steel
shared log, a charred remnant
(7/30/2020 – ‘00 Destination 53 DMS)...
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Categories:
charred, allusion,
Form:
Kimo