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Best Harsh Poems

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


Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: harsh, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: harsh, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If God Gives Me Tomorrow
If God gives me tomorrow
I'll try to stop crying
unlike this dark night
where I fear that I'm dying

If He gives me tomorrow
I'll let go of today
I'll...

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Categories: harsh, faith, inspirational, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loving Years
Dark honey tanned skin glistens
    From the moisture of humidity.
The ladies flirt shamelessly with 
    You, but your eyes...

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Categories: harsh, autumn, beach, husband, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: harsh, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Flower Blooms
While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

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Categories: harsh, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Winter
With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...

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Categories: harsh, winter,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Bird's Paradise - POTD
Wintry days were turning mild.
After the harsh stormy days.
     Still not a sound could be heard
     Except...

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Categories: harsh, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why I Became a Poet
Because there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harsh, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
               A coloratura rises 
      ...

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Categories: harsh, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Calm
Calm is the silt beneath the waves
The measured heartbeat of the brave
It is the fragile petal born
From gardens of pernicious thorns
A velvety cadence under
The jagged...

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Categories: harsh, care, introspection, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails

Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today...

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Categories: harsh, appreciation, beauty, creation, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Stoic's Chlorophyll Corona
Sonnet I

In realms of emerald hush, where sunlight strains
Through veils of green, a silent throng takes root,
A clovered congregation on the plains,
Their stoic forms a...

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Categories: harsh, feelings, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Gate
Regally it stands, the staunch guardian of her lonesome heart,
Reminiscing in revelries of yore, treasured memories impart,
Defying glum turbulence of now, hanging on to seasons...

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Categories: harsh, emotions, memory, missing,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Color of Silence
If you could paint a picture of silence
What color would it be?

Would you use a brush to paint the fog
in shades of gray, a touch...

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Categories: harsh, imagination, morning, sound,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs