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


Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her...

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Categories: detest, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: detest, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Never Ever Want To See You Again
One look at you – that’s all it took
Your long long legs that seem to go on forever
Those eyes staring at me
All I feel for...

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Categories: detest, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress
"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress"
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

The hourglass, 
a skeletal jester, 
mocks in the tomb's chill,
Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, 
"Soon...

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Categories: detest, death, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Inner Turmoil
It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my...

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Categories: detest, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Life You Chiseled Still Burns the Wound
Sunny aspirations were not meant to be
As cloudy days appended the rainy nights
And mornings arose with darkened skies
Leaving her behind, in shattered dreams

Still she walked,...

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Categories: detest, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Slivers of Light
A thousand yellow and orange slivers of light vibrate.
Their heat permeates.
Slowly they glide into pairs and groups, singing as one. 
Alas, this solitary yellow light...

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Categories: detest, angst, horror, morning, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stars Tempt Our Senses

It was time to visit the stars
To embrace them with my senses
Though the price was astronomic
I saved up for the expenses

Most think stars are unreachable
Due...

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Categories: detest, adventure, senses, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quiescent
“Activity makes my life colorful. To be quiescent is relaxing, but when it prolongs, I feel I am dead.” – By Poet



Day after day passes
With...

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Categories: detest, feelings, life, missing,
Form: Free verse
Man's Greatest Enemy
Why, the greatest enemy of man is man
for man has subdued everything else
Fear not the tiger, fear the murderer's plan
Just hearken well to what history...

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Categories: detest, conflict, corruption, society, war,
Form: Quatrain
Love Song
Here’s what I’m thinking now 
at the end of the world: 

There are no atheists in foxholes— 
no theists in politics. 
If knowledge is power,...

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Categories: detest, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Ignoramus: Who Is Not Far From Being a Fool
When everyone goes east, he heads west
to him, every dialogue is a contest
comes into an interaction as the biggest
then leaves agonisingly as the lowest.
When he...

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Categories: detest, funny,
Form: Prose Poetry
L-O-V-E
love is something that you should respect
for of all emotions it's worst harm is regret
it gives freely with no thought to object
from one to another...

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Categories: detest, dedication, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
A Letter To Him
You irritate me.
You touched your daughter.
Actually, you touch not just yours,
but God’s!
You sick and twisted man.

You try your hardest to get it in
But she knows...

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Categories: detest, abuse, conflict, dad, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Vouch For
I am patently smitten 
With utmost contempt ,they treat any mention of its reality
The realm of the illusory is its permanent abode
Its at best transient...

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Categories: detest, love,
Form: Free verse

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