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Best Cruelties Poems


Premium Member A Mother's Love
...When I became a mother, tremendous joy filled my heart,
But little did I know about this journey at the start.
I thought I knew what Love is, even Love profound,
With every cry and coo, every babb......

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Categories: cruelties, blessing, child, children, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
...Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canop......

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Categories: cruelties, death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy
Lost All Alone
...Lost all alone.
Waiting patiently for companionship.
Reruns of the old.
Savage cruelties unleashed.
Unable to share this.
An undesirable partner.
Giving with nothing recieved.
Demanding any ex......

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Categories: cruelties, introspection, life, lost love,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member In Praise of All Old Friends
...Of all old friends, those we have of old are best;
These the souls we travel with by preference,
Theirs the spirits to whom we grant all deference.
Their hopes are ours, ours their own; 
All vict......

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Categories: cruelties, day, friend, heart, old,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Whips of History - 4
...Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to......

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Categories: cruelties, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Calamity of Nepal Part 2 Concluded
...
The Calamity of Nepal  Part  2 Concluded


The crisis of Nepal is not only the result
Of manmade deeds and erratic constructions
Of erecting unplanned houses and roads
Creating ill......

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Categories: cruelties, analogy, earth, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Rarity of Recognition
...A wounded animal retreats to the scrub,
where anything worth saving lives.
It licks wounds inflicted by a wicked wind whipped world. 
Filled with big stone faces unsmiling.

The wounded animal r......

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Categories: cruelties, baptism,
Form: Rhyme
My Ghost
...my ghost has found
it's resting place
its forever wondering
has found its grace
and leaving no longer
has to be
no more running from
violence or infidelity
no need to escape
undue influence
......

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Categories: cruelties, lovegiving,
Form: Narrative
They Are Refugees In Their Own Country
...They are refugees in their own country.....

No land for them to go. No body care them either
They are known as refugees in their own country
War brought uncertainty in their lives
and made t......

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Categories: cruelties, sad,
Form: Light Verse
The Language of Words
...You come into my world
a child of mine
of heart and mind creation
sweetly under my flair
following my soul
tracing my steps
growing to a tremendous wealth
encoding my particles.
Soulless, dry......

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Categories: cruelties, allusion, beauty, blessing, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were Your Love
...If I were your love, who deeply cared for you, 
I would wipe the tears of anguish from your eyes, 
And I would plant poignant kisses on your cheeks,
Telling you, you are my beloved I recognize! 
......

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Categories: cruelties, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rhyming Tale of the Barbaric, Murderous, Trail of Tears
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A Rhyming Tale Of The Barbaric, Murderous, Trail Of Tears

Sun had failed to rise on this once deep and true red-bloodied......

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Categories: cruelties, betrayal, death, discrimination, grief,
Form: Rhyme
An ode to a wounded child
...O tender soul, o innocence defiled,
What cruelties did your youth upend?
Tormented by she who should cherish her child,
Instead her addictions made her your fiend.

Those eyes that should have b......

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Categories: cruelties, abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Keep Trying
...Survival can be summed up in three words ~ Never give up! That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying - Bear Gryllis

I thought it would be the death of me
At least the person......

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Categories: cruelties, courage, encouraging, endurance, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Krampus
...Beware the wrath of the Northern Polar boogie man, 
The Anti-Clause, a legendary beast of nightmarish voracity,
From folklore mythology, a dark creature of demonic prowess,
Lurks in the hidden sha......

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Categories: cruelties, christmas, fantasy, holiday, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things