Best Gaunt Poems
Below are the all-time best Gaunt poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gaunt poems written by PoetrySoup members
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
gaunt, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Fallen StarI tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark
and midnight wanderlust.
It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...
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Categories:
gaunt, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form:
Quatrain
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...
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Categories:
gaunt, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Gettysburg HauntingsGettysburg Hauntings
When General Meade met General Lee
At Gettysburg in 1863
Sons of the South battled Northern brothers
And neither side has ever recovered
Fifty-one thousand lives lost in...
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Categories:
gaunt, history, mystery, visionarywar, war,
Form:
Couplet
Junkie
He tries to ignore her,
but she drags him close.
He tries to resist her,
but he needs it to pacify his pain.
His head aches with loud vibrations,
antagonised...
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Categories:
gaunt, abuse, addiction, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
gaunt, dark, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
I Am He As You Are MeWhen the night wind changes course
sending breezes from the north,
when farmer's fields lie brown and fallow
and empty ropes swing from the gallows,
when children's faces are...
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Categories:
gaunt, adventure, fantasy, imagination, science,
Form:
Ballad
The Curtain of Pain Fell Upon UsWhile snowflakes continue to fall,
upon a night pale as ghostly winter
I falter from my own distraught pause--
the hazy moon watches my young girl
a...
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Categories:
gaunt, mother daughter, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Hopeless Romantic Number 9Too long I limped along a lonely road, born into this Sahara desert of a life,
parched and hungry, face weathered and gaunt.
A deaf, dumb,...
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Categories:
gaunt, devotion, for her, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Night Awaits the DawnSome boys with cheek play hide and seek within a house condemned
their faces gaunt reflecting want that’s hard to comprehend.
With veiled excuse an old recluse...
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Categories:
gaunt, death, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Girl On the MoonThe Miller High Life bottle cap
a perfect circle – like the fattened moon face
leering through broken windows — shards
glitter the floor like fallen constellations
your...
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Categories:
gaunt, abuse, addiction, drug, lost,
Form:
Free verse
WerewolfThick, black clouds gathered overhead,
veiling the moonlight with guise dread.
Wind weaves with howls, and spies embed
a gaunt hollow man in its stead,
lifting his black...
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Categories:
gaunt, animal, halloween, horror, howl,
Form:
Monorhyme
Common ManThe traveler reeked of weariness,
His companion was Fatigue
Wear upon his clothes suggest
He'd come a million league.
Gaunt were eyes deep set and brown
Above his cheekbones high
His...
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Categories:
gaunt, america, conflict, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflections On a WindowSophia leaned on her gaunt elbow as she stared out from the high window sill watching the minute drops of rain steadily fell the glass....
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Categories:
gaunt, life,
Form:
Narrative
Wildlife's Vicious Game -- Pic 2A ghastly cadaver drops, for whose noble sake?
To ravish the grandeur of wildlife
In the dead of night; to mangle
Creation’s gift and its soft flutters,
Where each...
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Categories:
gaunt, animal, death, environment,
Form:
Verse