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Best Gruelling Poems

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


Premium Member Gabriela Anderson -Schiess
Gabriela Anderson Scheiss was a long distance runner
Who ran the marathon in the Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty four
You probably...

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Categories: gruelling, dedication, race, sports, usa,
Form: Rhyme



I Look Back and Smile
I remember how I would cry myself to sleep
Night after night then I would wake the next morning 
Dreading the moment I stepped into the...

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Categories: gruelling, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
60 Seconds
60 Seconds


Gruelling nights with haunted dreams
Explosions tearing at my seams
The worst, last night; I couldn’t sleep
My expendability made me weep.

With dawn awoke a brand new...

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Categories: gruelling, heartbreak, love, miss you,
Form: Rhyme
The Forest At Midnight
The moonlit trees
   Sway drunkenly against
            The kaleidoscopic backdrop.
   ...

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Categories: gruelling, nature, night, tree,
Form: Shape
Our Peace
I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling...

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Categories: gruelling, care, devotion, i love
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Little Things Mean a Lot
It's the little things in life that mean so much

That steaming cup of hot coffee waiting for you as you greet the day

The cheery hello...

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Categories: gruelling, life, , cute,
Form: Narrative
What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About
Hmm...What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About...

Today (a rather brisk, chilly,
and otherwise sat
tiss factory twirly delightful
December 18th, 2018) matte
her of fact quite
refreshing noontime, while...

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Categories: gruelling, abuse, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Bio
Hireath
I want to return home
I'm sick of being alone
the green house, my warm room
without this dense feeling of gloom
i want to be with the people...

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Categories: gruelling, confusion, depression, family, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan

33.  on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gruelling, america, conflict, culture, ,
Form: Free verse
Hypocrisy of the Village Flock
Hypocrisy within the Village Flock

As the seasons of my life changes, glorious it may not be!!
Valley bells summons the flock to chapel.
Heavily polished Pews squeak,...

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Categories: gruelling, betrayal, character, christian, conflict,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 16
Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the...

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Categories: gruelling, adventure,
Form: Epic
Spirit of a Champion
gaping mouth kiss to canvass
on my jugular death’s caress
my spirit’s quenched combust 
a champion in defeat’s bust

eyes swollen shut, “and he’s out!” 
down for the...

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Categories: gruelling, inspirational, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Happy To Be Alive
My approach to life has always been

One of lightheartedness and just happy to be alive

However, I recall my early years, especially my teenage years

When I...

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Categories: gruelling, happiness, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Coca-Cola Jingle
I taste suburban bliss
On your journey to my heart
In the breath of your kiss
You whisper, “We’ll never be apart.”

A shower of living colour  
The...

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Categories: gruelling, cute love, light,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Overarching Genocide
Overarching Genocide

Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life 
raft...

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Categories: gruelling, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things