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Best Hard Hitting Poems

Below are the all-time best Hard Hitting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hard hitting poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I That Once Rose To Greet Dawn's Sweetest Voice
I, Who Once Rose To Greet Dawn's Sweetest Voice

I, who once rose to greet dawn's sweetest voice
and with joys of life, made loving my choice
while...

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Categories: hard hitting, art, deep, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 'comforter'
We get these hard hitting reminders
Of whom you are
In times of sadness
In times of powerlessness
In times when we are left with so many questions 

A...

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Categories: hard hitting, death, friend,
Form: Free verse
Father
Not once did i ever see my father tear up. 
Not once.
Never did i see him get emotional.
Blue with haze.
He was scared.
But he never cried.
A...

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Categories: hard hitting, absence, addiction, betrayal, fathers
Form: Free verse
Dove Bleeds Poppies
I'm but a frail bird tasked to bring hope and spread peace.
How shall I fly high in the sky with such a brittle burden!
My heart...

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Categories: hard hitting, sorrow, war,
Form: Personification
Tough Friends
Just like football we’re hard hitting and rough,
If you want to hang with us, you’ve gotta be tough;

No sissies allowed, we don’t cry when we’re...

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Categories: hard hitting, adventure, friendship, life, people
Form: Couplet



Writing In the Rain
Sitting on a branch of a white sapote tree
Shivering, crying and alone 
Away from home, on the highest branch that can hold me

Hiding......no more beatings...

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Categories: hard hitting, abuse, dark, lonely, mother,
Form: Free verse
And It Was Good
I still remember you.

No matter how far I get,
halfway across the world or not;
whether or not it's been two whole years,
two long years where so...

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Categories: hard hitting, beauty, father, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse
Winter
Adrenaline rush of frostbite maps out sail
Fugitive senses converge to disrobe snow blindness so bright
Though fluffy and soft in the air
Hard hitting the ground, beauty...

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Categories: hard hitting, beauty, gender, life, philosophy,
Form: Dodoitsu
Let It Go
People keep telling me let it go let it go,
But they’re the same person they’re not a ghost,
didn’t get to an age an see their...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard hitting, anger,
Form: Free verse
Wrestling
Wrestling has been around for ages,
Remember the Romans with there cages.
Ever since then it has gotten more violent.
Seldom does the crowd grow silent.
They hit each...

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© Craig Munn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard hitting, violence,
Form: Acrostic
Near Miss
Driving home one afternoon from school,
It was raining and the air was nice and cool.

Less than a mile from home in my little S-10,
Traveling the...

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Categories: hard hitting, faith, hope, lifenice, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unforgiving On Your Quest
You're not a coward
having shown a great lack of intelligence
or common sense within arrogance towards another opinion

For that which matters deeply disturbed blocked out
hard hitting...

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Categories: hard hitting, betrayal, conflict, deep, faith,
Form: Free verse
D.R.E.A.M.S.
My dreams involve writing of course
I want to break into the tough word of literature
I want to be a top author 
or an editor of...

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Categories: hard hitting, life, , literature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inside the Triangle of Hate
Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth
words taken from the bible that fires an arrow deep

We are living now in a...

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Categories: hard hitting, abuse, betrayal, bible, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Cm For a Leader
CM For A Leader

There lies in him lots of practical wisdom in the thoughts of the Sarawak CM.....
He knows his mind and doing his best...

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Categories: hard hitting, appreciation, blessing, character, community,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things