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Best Grunge Poems

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


90's Grunge Blitz
Thrift shop miracles of multi-
layered mysteries,insomniac-
drifters stumbling up the highway to
a water-logged Nirvana.
Stuttering hymns to flannel saints 
who have not yet; joined the cult of
organized-nicean-rebellion.
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Categories: grunge, addiction, age, america, angst,
Form: Blitz



With Broken Bones
Your making me walk on broken bones,
I’m breathing through punctured lungs
put me to the tight rope time to cross,
off you go, this is the grunge,
of...

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Categories: grunge, depression, devotionme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Poor White Trash
Some say
 they were pure white trash
 and the rich took a glancing pass
 as we walked the streets bared a....
But not one of us...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grunge, anti bullying, power, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Carpo, the Goddess of Autumn
Autumn is at once symbolic of plenty, ripening, harvest, and abundance; and, at the same time, a symbol of letting go, decay, decline, old age,...

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Categories: grunge, seasons,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Warrior Who Trains
I slash with my sword and I push with my shoulder. Every muscle and every tendon is screaming in agony. I can feel every pressure...

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Categories: grunge, adventure, war, me, body,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Soul Stance River - 3
Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition...

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Categories: grunge, adventure,
Form: Epic
Dear Parents
To forgive is like taking a plunge into a nightmare. Its worse to hold a grunge but I  may find a temporary solution to...

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Categories: grunge, change, dream, humanity, i
Form: Imagism
Dungeon Delve
Mounted on his noble steed,
   No taller than the tallest weed.

Prepared and ready for the plunge,
   Protected from any type of...

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Categories: grunge, adventure, fantasy, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Rock N Roll Party - In Memory of Mr Tom Bell - Poet
 
"Roll on tonight my mates are coming round
  For a few cold beers and some rocking sounds
  Time is drawing near, as...

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Categories: grunge, inspirational, music, on writing
Form: Quatrain
What Would You Take Contest Entry
If deserted, was I, on an island, and was allowed only three integral items to take with me, what would they be?

If we are speaking...

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Categories: grunge, friend, husband, lost, music,
Form: Narrative
Washday At the Zoo
Washday at the Zoo

                     ...

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Categories: grunge, funny
Form: Free verse
Transcend
Epiphanic jubilance as you begin exerting pharmaceutical control over your mental chemistry. You start to see that radiant joy, manic despair, mild boredom and every...

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© Anon Umus  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grunge, paradise, religious, perspective,
Form: Prose
Lady Fuku's Vice (The Gen-X Limerick)
There once was this babe from Seattle
who'd get wild when bands squared to battle.
Absorbed like a sponge,
she redefined grunge
with each rocker she chose to straddle....

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grunge, funny, nostalgia
Form: Limerick
Sonnet For Sister
O Grunge Princess, I know today your love
brims over, idle, for the rebel boy
like weed you keep, unsmoked, sitting among
your secrets in a box; the...

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Categories: grunge, age, break up, first
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Calculating Public Health
I wouldn't want you to walk away
with any miscalculations about me.

I am about as wild and crazy as society will allow
without confinement for my own...

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Categories: grunge, happiness, health, heartbreak, political,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things