Best Consumption Poems
Below are the all-time best Consumption poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of consumption poems written by PoetrySoup members
My TormentA fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun
Everything around...
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Categories:
consumption, angst, confusion, depression, health,
Form:
Quatrain
And the Road Begins?Mornings are dreadful time in life unless waking beside gorgeous woman hopefully
a not married one husbans can be such a downer.
And when ya...
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Categories:
consumption, friendship, funny, happiness, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case of AppundicitisA double sonnet in which the great detective and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, alternately deduce the cause of Sherlock’s latest malady…
Part the first
Sherlock could...
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Categories:
consumption, friend,
Form:
Rhyme
A Black Woman's AmbitionA black stone with diamonds inside
She shines but you would never know
They hit her but she never falls
They whip her but she never breaks...
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Categories:
consumption, color, discrimination, slavery,
Form:
Narrative
The disease called shyYou have my voice that sings
My eye’s that love to see
My heart beating when it believes
My hand writing poetry of what should be
My steps walking...
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Categories:
consumption, allegory, angst, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Is Your MindWhere Is Your Mind?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the...
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Categories:
consumption, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Going For PinktoberTheir murkiness has begun, an agony may follow,
Yet, you can see their faint smiles with their eyes losing their glow;
There’s a cap on their head...
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Categories:
consumption, dedication, health, october,
Form:
Rhyme
A Voice Crying Out In the WildernessHard edged (unreality) you face away from my immediacy (candour eschewing) inimically you parody, offering as nice the complexity of ''vice''exploiting even nature
(as voyeur...
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Categories:
consumption, caregiving
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiGazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes,...
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Categories:
consumption, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
She Sings In Secret Symphonies -As my youth goes yonder her beauty says to me yet, bet, yea,
in my mouth the word beautiful becomes a flavor of valor,
she likes to...
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Categories:
consumption, beautiful,
Form:
Romanticism
Too Young To DieAs the wind continue to sway,
We hurt from the inside but the outside can't lay.
Where there is a will there is a way,
But writing a...
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Categories:
consumption, age,
Form:
I do not know?
FuneralShe sleeps forever
I sleep funeral day
she shall be buried in earth
I , buried in wine
one day flowers I will lay
at her graveside
Never the less
consumption will...
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Categories:
consumption, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
LustLUST
flesh screaming of sin
found pleasures deepening skin
raising body heat within
escaping passion
carnal knowledge attraction
attaining satisfaction
volcanic fluxion
viral viewing seduction
stimulating consumption
sexual craving
concupiscence behaving
eroticism enslaving
magic hypnotic
display actions exotic
thirst...
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Categories:
consumption, fantasy, lust, passion,
Form:
Choka
BittersweetBittersweet
Jose cuts the canes one at a time cursed by poverty's grind
What else does he want since he works on sweetness all
...
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Categories:
consumption, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
consumption, life,
Form:
Free verse