Best Crippling Poems
Below are the all-time best Crippling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of crippling poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
crippling, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Gemini HeartMeet me in forever,
where the moon enclasps
the enchanting
heaven above us,
for you, are the music
playing on...
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Categories:
crippling, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the...
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Categories:
crippling, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
BecauseI was a fool.
I was a fool searching for reasons why.
Reasons why I
Grin with sudden boy giggles
As if Karma was my DJ,
Playing cotton candy woven...
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Categories:
crippling, dream, innocence, life,
Form:
Free verse
Behind the MaskBehind the mask there is a frail and fragile me
Enigmas clothed in conundrums; that the naked I can’t see
'Behind the mask is concealed, my authenticity
Examine...
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Categories:
crippling, depression, life, sad, slam,
Form:
Rhyme
Sickening7/9/20
"Sickening"
This is sickening
And quickening
Not at all, what I was envisioning
Nobody listening
Most chickening
Fidgeting
And limiting
Themselves to the point of being crippling
The effects rippling
And tripling
On top of it,...
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Categories:
crippling, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Tale of a Former Black SheepFor years I wore
your shame as my own
and lived unknown
in terror of being seen
like a leper
self-quarantined
intrinsically unclean
Your neglect
became to me
my insignificance
undeserving of your glance
Your abuse
became...
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Categories:
crippling, abuse, hope, how i
Form:
Free verse
Destiny
I think destiny, fate, choice are always mingling,
My life has been written, the present, future, past;
Oh, the past of my life- I am ever...
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Categories:
crippling, destiny,
Form:
Villanelle
My Grandma Smelt of PeppermintsMy Grandma smelt of peppermints.
Her kitchen of boiling bacon,
and margarine - it was always steamy
and 'welcomingly' warm.
The bathroom, off the kitchen,...
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Categories:
crippling, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
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:
crippling, color, discrimination, slavery,
Form:
Narrative
Consciousness CorrectionYesterday,
when conscious slept,
anger was my shield,
fear my faithful sword.
When hatred contaminated my heart,
tears ached for tranquillity,
polluted in guilt from selfish greed.
Life can be a disaster...
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Categories:
crippling, emotions, life, peace, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Journal"As water flows down when a faucet is turned on, thoughts and feelings pour out into a journal cleansing the heart" ~ By Poet
I keep...
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Categories:
crippling, best friend, how i
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
crippling, angst, cancer, hope, moving
Form:
Lyric
Samba NoirNether and far, darkness among stars
A painless realm daunting hidden charm
Neutrons and Adams, the beginning
Above the heavens, gods even sinning
Crimes of the universe
Negatives and positives
Black...
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Categories:
crippling, angel, art, beautiful, dark,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand...
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Categories:
crippling, betrayal, courage, devotion, love,
Form:
Prose