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Best Devouring(A) Poems

Below are the all-time best Devouring(A) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of devouring(a) poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: devouring(a), addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: devouring(a), anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: devouring(a), i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member African Anthology
walking gracefully  
with a pendulum movement ~
a herd of giraffes   

the mass migration
crocodiles at the river~
food for the taking

gazelles are running ...

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Categories: devouring(a), africa, animal, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
   ...

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Categories: devouring(a), devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: devouring(a), friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tribute To Leonora G
~ Yolanda was--her name ~    Featuring:) Leonora Galinta

From a hell storm,
A mighty she-devil took on its form
Like a woman scorn ascending from...

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Categories: devouring(a), death, deep, evil, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Thirsty Love
As a young boy
    I watch with interest the small man
   Wolf Hunter - a wise father of the hunt


He...

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Categories: devouring(a), love, lust,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Be On Guard Against Poets
My sweet child
My daughter
Be on guard
Be on guard of the man
Who plays on your heartstrings…
Not with flirtatious smile
Nor with flexed muscles
Not with devouring eyes
Nor with...

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Categories: devouring(a), mother daughter, poets,
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: devouring(a), dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Shores of Uncertainty
As his mind drifts upon silent shores of uncertainty, 
he ponders what was, what is and what is yet to come.
He wonders why no one...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devouring(a), analogy, dark, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
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: devouring(a), dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The First Bloom
You wonder why, my love
These memories flitter in the hallways of my mind
Knocking on the door
of every room
Where I’ve hung
Do not Disturb Signs
For I don’t...

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Categories: devouring(a), flower, sensual,
Form: Narrative
My Tree
MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing...

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Categories: devouring(a), nature, tree,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: devouring(a), death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs