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Best Drowned Poems

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


Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drowned, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: drowned, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
She Walks In Silence
She walks in silence, like a lapping wave
drowned in chastity and flooded with rave
holding dear and tight her very beauties
denying all her gems and rubies.
Her...

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Categories: drowned, emotions, feelings, heart, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet

What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...

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Categories: drowned, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Another Time
the waning moonlight thinly enveloped 	
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and...

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Categories: drowned, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drowned, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
I Slipped On a Tear Drop
I  s l i p p e d  on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drowned, death, sister, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Escape
Escape
Introducing: Carl Fraser & Poet Destroyer

Oh Paint me a far away horizon
Across a tranquil azure sea,
Where sits a peaceful deserted island
Where no one lives but...

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Categories: drowned, allusion, blessing, dream, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Inflictions
Childhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind

the ocean a mysterious enigma.

Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drowned, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Could Play the Violin
If I could play the violin
     I'd write a melody
   euphonious to draw you in
    ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drowned, encouraging, love, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mamma Still Calls Your Name
It was like the sun did not rise
and mourning birds sang 
no morning melody.

The heavens were so grey,
pouring like Noah's floods,
preparing me for the storm,
which...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drowned, death, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Beautiful Day In Spring
Out of the dark, a lambent, lovely day has dawned
In silvery brilliance the early morning is drowned
In the sapphire sky, the sun has appeared on...

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Categories: drowned, beauty, day, environment, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gone Forever
Here I sit amongst the long grasses and the reed,
in a solitary place, where my breath is freed,
on an Indian Summer's evening on the lake...

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Categories: drowned, autumn, nature, sky, summer,
Form: Rhyme
The Old House
Seven generations walked through your door,
Which stood so strong and always welcomed in.
You said goodbye when boys headed to war,
Two soldiers lost to battles they...

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Categories: drowned, childhood, family, house, memory,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The King of Sanctimonious
The King of Sanctimonious
Perched high upon his throne-ious
Clothed in purple pious-ness
Admired his own self-righteous-ness

The Queen of Sanctimonious
Tired of the King's baloney-ous
When he counts his hoards...

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Categories: drowned, humorous, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs