Best Gnaw At Poems
Below are the all-time best Gnaw At poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gnaw at poems written by PoetrySoup members
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
gnaw at, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
RacismI cry, I cry
Why does my skin color frighten you so?
Have I done anything, but, be born?
You judge me, from your own despair
and draw...
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Categories:
gnaw at, hate, racism,
Form:
Free verse
One Way Ships - Part 2Continued from Part 1
Hungary hounds harangue the highlands,
howl at skies and desert islands…
Below, unfettered carbon crows conceal the parting path she chose
Lighthouse lamps and lanterns...
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Categories:
gnaw at, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
It Must Be HardIt must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it...
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Categories:
gnaw at, hate, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
I Have a Raccoon DreamI dream that tonight I am a raccoon
And it is here in this body that I store the notion
That my sadness will last forever,
In the...
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Categories:
gnaw at, animalsdream, dream,
Form:
Free verse
It Must Be HardIt must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
Hurting others but
Killing your own soul
You pretend it isn’t...
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Categories:
gnaw at, hate, integrity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Life's Undiscovered PassionLIFE'S UNDISCOVERED PASSION
I reached up far to touch a star.
It only took a second.
I thought I heard a salient call
alas it did not...
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Categories:
gnaw at, art, creation, growth, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
Hit Me With Your Best ShotC'mon you ole devil, take your best shot!
You kidding? That's it? Is that all you got?
I know where I'M going; He's saved me a spot
I'll...
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Categories:
gnaw at, cancer, inspirational,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 1The skeletons and songs of samsara eternal
fleshed, fattened and flamed in karmic harmony,
your heart begins to beat in dark plethora roll
an in utero thunder thumps...
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Categories:
gnaw at, birth, death, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Tiny Wordstiny words
'went to the gas station
and opened my mouth
filled my stomach
with gasoline
lit a match and
swallowed it in
burned myself
smoked with fire
i spread like charcoal...
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Categories:
gnaw at, life
Form:
Imagism
HomelessOh, please, drop something in my cup, a bill or batch of change,
to see me smile when I look up...my fear with hope exchange.
A homeless...
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Categories:
gnaw at, for him, life, sad,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
gnaw at, death,
Form:
Verse
Love In EpisodesSuch explosions of love ecstatic
from fumbling youths and naive romantics.
In wedded bliss when passions flowed
two people alone in honeymoon glow
Flammable pleasure, ignitable moments to treasure,
we...
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Categories:
gnaw at, introspection, journey, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Its Beginning To Look a Lot Like CrapitalsmOnce commenced the fest of feasting and giving thanks for genocide,
‘Tis the season to be jolly to replace our thoughts of suicide.
Santa claws his way...
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Categories:
gnaw at, christmas, holiday, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
MonstersMonsters may not want blood,
and they may not have claws,
nor the mandible, drooping—
the smiling jaws;
without scales or hair,
even growling, I dare
say that monsters may lurk
deep...
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Categories:
gnaw at, death, depression, heartbreak, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme