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Best Crueler Poems

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


Pink Tennis Shoes
PINK TENNIS SHOES

I mother always pride galore
 until the words from daughter abhor.

Her gentle heart and loving embrace
smashing to pieces. She fell from grace.

Her untied...

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Categories: crueler, daughter, family, motherdaughter, words,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Mr James
His wise council and kind patience bolstered my resolve
to overcome my youthful woes and nightmarish troubles solve.
His humanity may have saved my life. His memory...

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Categories: crueler, education, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Cracked
Nothing is crueler than the need to satisfy man's inhumanity...The Poet



My heart cracked when I saw you there
those pained eyes with your empty stare
the state...

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Categories: crueler, anger, nature, sad,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Sheriff of Nottingham
The Sheriff, not a pleasant sort 
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants

Who once was...

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Categories: crueler, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member An Evil War
An Evil War

They walk the plains of sun-dried grass,
     together in a row;
the mothers, with their young ones, pass
  ...

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Categories: crueler, evil, war,
Form: Quatrain



Three Roses
Three Roses
Three roses  all in array
Let me still  capture while I may
And try to remember another time
When you were young
and we were strong
The...

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Categories: crueler, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Knowing a Trap
All the markings of danger read,
actions upon it make you dead;
back off from it by prudence's stead.

King cobra fangs and crueler things,
cautions wary and messages...

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Categories: crueler, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Three Roses My Lovely Children
Three Roses  My Lovely Children

Let me capture while I may
All three roses in array

And try and remember another time
When you were young and we...

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Categories: crueler, children,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Euchre
While playing the card game “Euchre”
The phrase you've been “Trumped” causes furor
Yanks have been thumped
Or perhaps “Trumped”
It's not just a card game, it's much crueler...

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Categories: crueler, depression,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Paralyzed
I awake in the early morning darkness
frozen, motionless, immobilized,
my eyes straining to see into the black void
looking for any sign of my keepers,
listening for any...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crueler, anxiety, dark, depression, grief,
Form: Narrative
The Poor *****'s Rock
A woman who lost everything she owns stands there 
by the waterfront where the waves beat upon the shore.

The woman-transformed-***** is a prisoner of war...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crueler, anger, cry, death, mother,
Form: Verse
Bada Bing
8/21/17
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Taking swigs
Continuing to dig
Doing it big

Bada-bing
Crown me I am king
Doing my thing
Toward the fences I swing
My all I bring
Sting like a bee, And knock them...

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Categories: crueler, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
War , He Said
Broremann’s war
 
Spring, 1945, German troops in his town were walking about not
carrying arms, they spoke to the locals in a friendly manner.
Looking back it...

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Categories: crueler, fear, funny, history, life,
Form: Blank verse
So Weak
Peeking at myself from a narrow gap
I felt as if looking at my bill after a long nap
If I don’t pay my debt because of...

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Categories: crueler, appreciation, bible, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
So-Called Teacher
I'm sorry I came here.
I'm sorry I let you trick me.
You have them all convinced they need you.
I do not.
I'm sorry that it seems no...

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Categories: crueler, angst, life, passion, school,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs