Best Devastating Poems
Below are the all-time best Devastating poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of devastating poems written by PoetrySoup members
Joy In the EmptinessWhere once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
knit into a temporary tomb
a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
observed from above
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Categories:
devastating, easter,
Form:
Free verse
The Dark Side of OctoberThe Dark Side of October
Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...
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Categories:
devastating, dark, horror, october, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Gods of WindsNotus comes creeping furtively from the south
hot and bothered from the blazing summer sun.
The wind of change...concealed it launches sudden storms
as clouds pile up across...
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Categories:
devastating, wind,
Form:
Verse
Pointing To the ProblemsPOINTING TO THE PROBLEMS
{Bivouacs}
Beat down with legal fees
Tied up with taxes;
Tripped up with mortgages;
Ripped off with student loans
Insulted with insurance
Telephone updates.
Out of...
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Categories:
devastating, earth day, emotions, fish,
Form:
Free verse
TornadoTorrential rain, blinding wind howling,
Dark heavy clouds ominously scowling,
Brilliant radiant light of electric flashes,
Following the lightning, defiant crashes,
Loudest blasts make brave men cower,
Thunder so...
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Categories:
devastating, storm, wind,
Form:
Personification
Categories:
devastating, feelings, hope, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Abandoned CitiesFUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo
FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY
"Abandoned Cities"
Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently...
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Categories:
devastating, holocaust, humanity, life, war,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless LoveThey met at first around sixteen,while they were in their teens.
A young man tall and handsome, a girl with many dreams.
Years later they did meet...
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Categories:
devastating, family, life, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Battle of Tastebud HillIt was a beautiful sunny morning so quiet and so still
As Sir Tom's Marmite army, charged up Tastebud hill
Queen Debs vast Vegemite army could see...
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Categories:
devastating, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
RainThe fact of losing you wasn't that much devastating. You evaporated too fast like water. And so it didn't give me affright. I know you're...
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Categories:
devastating, emotions, feelings, for her,
Form:
Prose
Corona Virus Cov-19CORONA VIRUS (COV-19)
The Black Death, or bubonic plague, which happened nearly 700 years ago, (in the three year period of 1347 to 1351 in which...
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Categories:
devastating, anxiety, death, faith, fear,
Form:
Narrative
Paying a High PriceRussia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken...
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Categories:
devastating, conflict, murder, prison, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Back To Hell Damn YouBACK TO HELL DAMN YOU!
Oh you bad, nasty, vicious Virus,
You have taken my inspiration away,
I have asked my muse for help,
But she has gone to...
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Categories:
devastating, dad,
Form:
Free verse
LegacyIn the 1960’s all around me were cheerful chants
inviting us all to ‘Make Love not War’
John Lennon asked us to give peace a chance,
some joined...
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Categories:
devastating, angst, dark, destiny, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
In ShameIN SHAME
When I was a little girl father brutally beat me down with such severity, and humiliation, causing me to hang my head down low...
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Categories:
devastating, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form:
Free verse