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Best Harsh Words Poems

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Premium Member Song of the Poet
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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harsh words, love, song,
Form: Lyric



The Door To Forever
It was such a small thing
It happens all the time
Fathers and sons disagree
Fathers and sons argue
Fathers and sons say things
Things they don't really mean...

We exchanged...

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Categories: harsh words, grief, son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Humour Icon - Icon You That I'M a Poet
I hesitated for over a month – should I join Poetry Soup …
Would they like my poems and accept me in their group?

It is not...

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Categories: harsh words, humorous, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Resolve Problems Through Compromise
Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
But I have no desire to do others harm.
        ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harsh words, conflict, fate, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gardenia Scented Poetic Cart

Be thou kindness, ruler in my heart!
Shake any evil from my quill.
No harsh words to depart,
To soil another poets will.

Let rays of sunshine beam from...

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Categories: harsh words, feelings, introspection, poetess,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Two Riding On a Single
Two riding on a single
Man! How fast that bike will go
Down the hill around the curve
Blow wind blow

At the very bottom piled up
In a culvert...

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Categories: harsh words, family, funny, imagination
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Scent of Kindness
heave bursts from lips can both injure or heal
harsh words strike deep the bayonet’s metal
while kind words stroke soft as a rose petal
floral scent~ gardener’s...

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Categories: harsh words, heart, rude, spoken word,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Defuse and Compromise
Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
          I have no desire to do others...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harsh words, conflict, fate, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme
My Strong Black Man
Brown eyes so deep with anger and pain yet, so hypnotising and sweet they 
tempt my soul.

Lips so soft and warm, such harsh words for...

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Categories: harsh words, urban, me, love, me,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Will Not Break
Your harsh words 
Your morbid silence
Your dirty looks
Your dark violence
Will bend me
Will bend me
But I will not break!

Your stinging sarcasm
Your childish spite
Your evil meanness
Your brutish...

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Categories: harsh words, abuse, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Homeless People
Walking on the streets out there
With the little baggage they own,
They walk everywhere
With no where to call home

They are homeless
Who struggles every day
For food and...

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Categories: harsh words, poverty,
Form: Sonnet
Walking Alone
I used to wish I made a difference in his ife, 
I thought it possible, since I was labeled his wife. 

But it is sad...

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Categories: harsh words, abuse, depression, grief, husband,
Form: Ballad
The Sagacity of Life
For I am departing tomorrow and the sun shall gleam, 
the eventide shall ascend and the moon shall beam.
Forget me not when I wither away,...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harsh words, death, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
Storm of Hearts
Storm of hearts

You can see in her eyes, there's a storm in her heart
Accusations boom in verbal sonic thunder
Rains flood her sullen cheeks, as her...

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Categories: harsh words, betrayal, heartbreak, hurt, jealousy,
Form: Sonnet
You Are a Memory of a Well Learned Lesson
Sitting here all alone 
Getting lost in my head 
Wandering off in the fields of your game  
Soaked by the pouring rain of your...

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Categories: harsh words, break up, care, courage,
Form: Free verse

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