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Best Forbidding Poems

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


Premium Member Moonlight Shadow
Silhouetted in the early morn
Five black crows await the breaking dawn
Sitting still and silent in a row
Their shadows cast a forbidding glow
Dusk turns to dawn...

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Categories: forbidding, moon, nature, night,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...

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Categories: forbidding, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Echoes of the Heart
~Echoes Of The Heart.~
                     ...

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Categories: forbidding, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids, ...

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Categories: forbidding, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Categories: forbidding, people, society,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Gift, the Truth, Hope and Its Sweet Promise
The Gift, The Truth, Hope And Its Sweet Promise

Your hope- you have gifted unto me
unto me, a vagabond shifting sand
a flightless bird lost in its...

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Categories: forbidding, art, creation, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: forbidding, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dying a Little With Each and Every Breath
Quote- Henri Barbusse

""We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this...

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Categories: forbidding, art, death, deep, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Paper Kingdom


" Pardon me, 
if my soul has been p a i n t e d , 
with a lavender lake of solemnity, 
but, I'll ...

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Categories: forbidding, deep, emotions, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground,...

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Categories: forbidding, peace, people, political, society,
Form: Rhyme
Cafe Terrace At Night
CAFE   TERRACE   AT   NIGHT           (Van  Gogh)


Orbital focus of...

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Categories: forbidding, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nayda
Beyond the skills of escorts
and the appeal of other playthings,
smolders the need of the soul
infused to best every man.
Twelve years have taken
the scars out of...

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Categories: forbidding, beauty, inspiration, introspection, poetess,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Feral Frozen
Ursus Maritimus ...

I entered your world in quietude, slipping through the granular, soft.
          Long slats to...

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Categories: forbidding, animal, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Kiss Me In the Shadows
Keep well away from dark, forbidding dreams --
Instead, stay near the hearth and play your lyre;
Sleep even so will wait on wooden beams,
Seducing you beside...

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Categories: forbidding, adventure, allegory, angst, imagination,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Who Am I To Say
Written by Gail Debole on 
April 2, 2013

She, on her near-death bed
Face grey as she faced what is inevitable.
I, sitting to the right
And Death floating...

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Categories: forbidding, death, god, life,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs