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Best Cringe Poems

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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: cringe, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Desire Love Romance
All lovely words
when understood

All so misconstrued
silence envelopes our delusions

Desire, we lust the attention
at the forfeit of philosophy

Love, we crave at Kings expense
	at times
		Sacrificing those whom...

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Categories: cringe, art, heart, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...

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Categories: cringe, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: cringe, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: cringe, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member The Window Cleaner
Window cleaning is my trade and I want to tell my story
Like the time I saw the Vicars wife in the bath in all her...

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Categories: cringe, funeral, funny, humor, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: cringe, anxiety, art, depression, suicide,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Lettuce Pray - Or What Not To Do In Church
A funeral is not the place when you find you need to laugh
Here is my true story about my little gaffe
I hope this poem does...

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Categories: cringe, funeral, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Painful Perspectives: Bullying In America
Painful Perspectives
                Bullying in America

"About 77% of students have admitted...

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Categories: cringe, school, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Brothers Known As Time
One brother, not well-liked by me,
is friends with early light.
Born in a prior century,
he measures day from night.

He comes with neither fangs nor claws,
and yet...

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Categories: cringe, time,
Form: Quatrain
Old Jack the Halloween Scrooge
Old Jack hated Halloween night.
The constant ringing of his doorbell
he didn't like. So he turned off his
household lights.
   His wife said, "Why did...

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Categories: cringe, halloween, happiness, heart, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Heart Still Beats
My sister and I 
She was five and I was eight 
Walking home from school 
About a mile from our house 
Bang! She got hit...

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Categories: cringe, childhood,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member ::Limited edition::
I’m a limited edition, when all is said and done 
Nothing special, only unique in a maze of humdrum 
Kill spiders for a pastime, coz...

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Categories: cringe, confusion, i am, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Ann Summers Alphabet
A is for a**l
B is for balls
Share them or wear them
Tucked up in your smalls
C is for condoms 
Of all shapes and sizes
D is for...

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Categories: cringe, funny,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Meaning of Life
Others, and my children, wanted to understand the meaning of life.
As I’d recently had surgery number 7, yes, gone under the knife.
It’s simple, you see…...

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Categories: cringe, christian, faith, giving, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things