Best Cruel Poems
Below are the all-time best Cruel poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cruel poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
cruel, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The Red Leafthe raspy whisper
finally
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..
the crisp red leaf
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...
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Categories:
cruel, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Poe's Untimely Demise*Note
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...
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Categories:
cruel, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent OneWhen we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...
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Categories:
cruel, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Never To Be MineNot with my arms but with a heart
that blesses your reveries, may peace reside
within your chest... is it possible to love you
less? Perhaps allow...
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Categories:
cruel, grief, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
cruel, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Northern SlavesIn the silent breathing of night,
treading through
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...
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Categories:
cruel, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...
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Categories:
cruel, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Turnip and the CabbageA Turnip and a Cabbage
are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar
as they hadn't...
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Categories:
cruel, adventure, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Love's Eternal DeathThe hollow eyes of love are never gone
They keep within the waves of trembled tears
From days so poor when love was looked upon
And one where...
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Categories:
cruel, emotions, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
Between the Words of My FatherI tried my best
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?
I wonder
Now that you...
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Categories:
cruel, farewell, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Why I Became a PoetBecause there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words...
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Categories:
cruel, how i feel,
Form:
Bio
Romantic Rendezvous
you're so far away...
tantalizing temptation was always your forte
teasing me, drawing me in
making me yearn for your passionate kiss
desperate to be lured
into your amorous arms...
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Categories:
cruel, romantic love,
Form:
Alliteration
Orchid Oxymorons"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...
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Categories:
cruel, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
PrejudiceI hate
your brownness
your whiteness,
your blackness
your freeness
I don’t care about niceness
I’m more partial to meanness
I’m all the things bad
ugly and cruel
my...
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Categories:
cruel, character, prejudice,
Form:
Personification