Best Expunged Poems
Below are the all-time best Expunged poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of expunged poems written by PoetrySoup members
The World Around UsAwaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...
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Categories:
expunged, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...
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Categories:
expunged, love, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
expunged, dream, lost love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
The Lady of the Lake Part IiThrough raven’s eye, viewed I my fate, blood scribed upon the ground,
whilst shadows of the darkwood’s dead, stood solemnly around.
Accusing faces staring down, from purgatory’s...
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Categories:
expunged, fantasyme, me,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
LossDark clouds drift slowly across the leaden sky.
The air is stagnant, still, heavy with promise of the tempest to come.
Standing, abandoned, forlorn, on the...
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Categories:
expunged, best friend, death, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Kicking the HabitBy the time I was a score and four
I was retired from overseas duty.
Was husband to an American beauty.
Had smoked at least ten years or...
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Categories:
expunged, healthday,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Few Things To Consider Before Brown-Nosing In My Presence1) I hate brown-nosers far more than I hate most other nosers
of virtually any known color!
2) I will make it a point to slap...
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Categories:
expunged, angst, career, corruption, jobs,
Form:
Free verse
Red Dawn Over the New EmpireRED SUN DAWNING OVER THE NEW EMPIRE
The dawning sun raises bloody red
Over the traffic clogged streets
And noxious polluted air
Of the capital of Imperial America
The...
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Categories:
expunged, america, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
DoorsDoors
How fitting that the band’s name derived from Aldous Huxleys’ treatise
‘The Doors of Perception’ that purely aesthetic philosophical story of
life through the window and...
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Categories:
expunged, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
No Future Present Or PastAll that is left is scorched earth,
no future, present, or past.
For nukes have expunged Man's birth,
lost in the flash of their blast.
Intense heat melted the...
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Categories:
expunged, angst, depression, destiny, fantasy,
Form:
Quatrain
Flash Flooda storm is brewing
dark hordes bristling to descend
dissenting thunder
coalescent scouts
in tentative teams essay
sun-parched earth awaits
sizzle of drizzle
pheremonal petrichor
harbingers of hope
cool breeze in the air
their work...
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Categories:
expunged, environment, nature, rain, storm,
Form:
Haiku
Defecation Dilemmagluteus maximus left and right half moon cheek
re: byte size buttock
attached via usb (uniform firm behind) to this freak
...
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Categories:
expunged, firework, happy, humorous, poetry,
Form:
Concrete
Christmas
"Christmas"
I’ll stay with you
towards Christmas
those 12 days
and beyond
a strange few days
we meet in the nether
and hold on ...
like there’s no tomorrow
while the gryphons
try...
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Categories:
expunged, christmas, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W EdenSCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still...
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Categories:
expunged, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form:
Verse
SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.
Deforestation dehydrates the caliginous evergreen region,
scorching...
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Categories:
expunged, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form:
Rhyme