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Best Disaster Poems

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


In Lieu of the Rodeo
Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
	That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
	I’ll...

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Categories: disaster, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gemini Heart
Meet me in forever,
where the moon enclasps
the enchanting 
   heaven above us,
for you, are the music 
     playing on...

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Categories: disaster, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member John F Kennedy - Martin Luther King Jr - Robert F Kennedy and Donald Duck
it was the sixties
we were young
we were going to change the world
spin it like a basketball on our finger
take the three point shot 
win the...

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Categories: disaster, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: disaster, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Black Sunday 21st October 2018
Twenty first of October in two thousand and eighteen
Was the worst disaster poetry soup had seen
Poems wiped off the website as all the poets slept
When...

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Categories: disaster, computer, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



The Truth About Adhd
Growing up with ADHD forces you to adapt,
impulsive behaviour controls how you react,
attention span wanders and naturally distracts,
you face an impact, that in fact, doesn't...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disaster, anti bullying, perspective, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: disaster, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Laugh through 2024
“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disaster, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: disaster, political
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Disunity Then Unity
DISUNITY THEN UNITY
 
Last Episode of Pure Fantasy.

Fireball always seems to take center stage,
Except in the last episode it was with absolute rage,
Echoman has secretly...

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Categories: disaster, universe, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When You Are Alone
When you are alone
In a disaster zone
Being lost and forgotten,
Afraid of the world unknown,
With care and courage I will arrive
And lay down by your side,
In...

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Categories: disaster, child, love, Lullaby,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member To Honor My Hero
To honor my hero. 
    A wee superhero. 
      Has shoplifted my heart 
   ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: disaster, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Good Riddance
I welcomed you twenty twenty, a brand spanking new year
But all you brought with you was death, misery and fear
So I'll be glad to see...

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Categories: disaster, death, goodbye, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Uplifting
Make a difference in somebody's life
Touch a lonely soul as it silently cries
Be the one who lifts to let someone rise

Comfort the children who have...

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Categories: disaster, uplifting,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Imagine a Dead World
Imagine if all the krill 
Beneath the ice shelves were dead.
Millions plus millions of krill
Fodder for ocean’s creatures:
Penguins, walrus, whales.
In the end all will die...

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Categories: disaster, creation, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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