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Best Crippled Poems

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


Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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Categories: crippled, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Soothing Serenades
Pained piano keys compose 
a chorus-less composition.
Melancholic moods crave
to sway back and forth  
like bluebells and lilies dancing,
when kissed by the morning breeze

Forlorn flute...

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Categories: crippled, analogy, deep, sad,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty I know can dwell
within a body worn and frail.
I think of one who had been doled
great miseries, so once grown old,
his body seemed...

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Categories: crippled, hero,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Black and White
I am like an avalanche slithering in shivering angst,
free-falling into an abyss of an aching era,
where luminous lakes reflect pixelated regrets,
for time throws my canvas...

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Categories: crippled, angst,
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: crippled, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
Sophocles, Greek Poet 

  When love meets your silhouette at twilight,
heart...

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Categories: crippled, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In the Bed They Make
And when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!

When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger

Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished...

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Categories: crippled, life, psychological, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: crippled, political
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: crippled, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Writing In a Black Perspective
WRITING IN A BLACK PERSPECTIVE

Why is it that someone's pain is felt pleasure to another?
I arrived with fears. I cared to find a friend, anywhere
But...

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Categories: crippled, perspective, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Short Fleeting Moment of Happiness
I saw her sitting in a wheel chair,
crippled, mute and almost hairless,
over pumped with chemotherapy,
and aged more than she really was.
 
Yet I prefer to...

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Categories: crippled, love,
Form: Free verse
Preoccupation
I search for you eagerly
in the shadows of your words

               ...

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Categories: crippled, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Little One Is Three
I see his smiles
His sisters laughter in the breeze
I confess a cold heart, warmed

When though will I be free?
From the pain of long ago years
From...

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Categories: crippled, absence, art, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Less Fortunate
Who are the less fortunate?
What are their names?
Are they the crippled,
the blind, the lame?

Is a man in a wheelchair
lesser than I?
His heart may hold treasures
that...

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Categories: crippled, deep, perspective, riddle, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Gatekeepers of My Soul
In the deep blue realms of sadness
Floats the madness of my soul
No happy childhood dreams to cling to
No cherished memories left to hold

A crippled smile...

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Categories: crippled, crazy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs