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Best Depravity Poems

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Premium Member Gravitational Pull
Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

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Categories: depravity, abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse



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: depravity, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: depravity, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: depravity, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Veil of Evil - Jimmy Savile
Oh, if only ...

If only monsters ...
LOOKED like monsters.
If they lurked ONLY in the dark,
Glowing red eyes and chiseled teeth ...
Claws and horns and forked...

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Categories: depravity, abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Free verse



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: depravity, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Words With a Venomous Sting
It was not my intention to ever post in PS again
but through an open window I've caught a glimpse
and smell of what's been dumped into...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depravity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chaotic Peaceful Thoughts
I say I want peace
Yet I hate my brother
It's not what I was taught by my mother
She said get along with one another
But that's not...

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Categories: depravity, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Descent of Man
Knowledge and wisdom are not found
in the chaotic crowd's cacophony of voices
caused by fear and frustration
They gather like swarms of locusts
on emotional wings of hysteria
Their...

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Categories: depravity, betrayal, conflict, society,
Form: Verse
Per Ardua Ad Astra
...inspired by 'Science-Fiction Cradlesong'
        by C.S. Lewis


Were we to try for heaven,
by dust and stars be riven
to lust...

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Categories: depravity, space
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If For Just One Magical Day
If for just one magical day

eradicate poverty
  reverse inequality
    restore sensibility
      prohibit inhumanity
   ...

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Categories: depravity, introspection, society,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Our Human Nature
Our Human Nature

A real aspect always part of a person’s life;
One that can bear fangs and pangs of strife.
 
A living barometer replete with its...

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Categories: depravity, allusion, god, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Animal of the Night
Animal of the Night

The animal of the night has an evil courage as its defense,
And with simple lies it now catches the filthy beast easily,
And...

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Categories: depravity, betrayal, corruption, emotions, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Brave American Knight
Driving home one day after hours of monotonous office work,
Saw a man sitting by the road; looked as one down on his luck.
Paid small notice...

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Categories: depravity, character, hero, strength, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Animal of the Night
The animal of the night has an evil courage as its defense,
And with simple lies it now catches the filthy beast easily,
And can now stand...

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Categories: depravity, animal, betrayal, corruption, dark,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs