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Best Cruelly Poems

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


Premium Member sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...

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Categories: cruelly, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member And So I Wrote a Poem
One day when I was walking 
inside a wood alone,
admiring the autumn trees,
I found a big flat stone.
It beckoned me to sit awhile -
 ...

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Categories: cruelly, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silent Song of Breeze
“The silent song of the sighing breeze,”
In leafless demeanor of shuddering trees,
Whispered cries of a dismantled dream
Augmenting dissonance of broken theme,

A theme composed in the...

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Categories: cruelly, love hurts, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater - the rest of the story
(Alternative Ending for Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater)

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.
Do you think he kept his wife so well
by putting her inside a pumpkin shell?
Inside that...

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Categories: cruelly, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: cruelly, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: cruelly, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: cruelly, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sandy Hook Tribute
Cruelly taken by a heartless act,
gone without a chance to say goodbye.
Innocent souls roam the heavens,
safe from the harsh realities of life.

A mother's eyes overflow...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deception - POTD
POTD 4th Nov 2019

Vanquishing all reservation
 twilight's prelude heralds
 shadowy anticipation
of a secret amorous thirst
He surrenders once more
to his darkest desires 
amplifies the sultry ambiance
with...

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Categories: cruelly, conflict, desire, passion, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member His Name Is Jesus
Who was this man who spoke so bold?
Was He a prophet, like one of old?
He touched the lepers, made them clean,
Gave sight to those who...

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Categories: cruelly, bible, christian, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unwritten Absence
Rhythms of pulses echo in souls, augmenting tenor of love song,
Reminiscing in sanctuary of life, together they shared for long;
Yet, memories sadly clamor aloud, since...

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Categories: cruelly, absence, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: cruelly, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Dreamed a Butterfly
I dreamed a butterfly in golden days
when buttercups lay in the fields ablaze.
It fluttered to my cheek, sweet love to bring.
My heart was wont to...

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Categories: cruelly, love, spring, , sweet
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: cruelly, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: cruelly, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

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