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Best Hounded Poems

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


Hounded
A novice pet store clerk named Keatcue
Was told by a client to have a Shih-Tzu.
The clerk thought that a personal smear,
And barked insults into the...

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Categories: hounded, dog, humor,
Form: Limerick



The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: hounded, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Another Cruel Link In Their Chain
  Another Cruel Link in their Chain 

1.   Beginnings

Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
	and he suckled her breast till...

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Categories: hounded, body, life, men,
Form: Ballad
The Vampire Monk, Part I
I.
In the year sixteen hundred and thirty-five
I was a fool young man known as Ludwig,
back from the wars and flush with new money,
spent it on...

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Categories: hounded, change, dark, evil, faith,
Form: Epic
Bad Luck Pearl
I have found what I consider a great prize:
In an oyster was a pearl of enormous size.
The villagers have all flocked around me.
This great jewel...

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Categories: hounded, adventure, grief, wife,
Form: Rhyme



Refugee
Beating the midday forlorn sun
By foot they begun the journey leaving the pun
Beware of the dangers and tactics to shun  
Between that time and...

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Categories: hounded, war, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Legend
Jesse James the Perfect Outlaw 

Jess James,
Rode the wild west in flames,
Some call him a hero outlaw,
His blazing revolver made him a bad criminal

Jesse and...

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Categories: hounded, angst, hero, history,
Form: Clerihew
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing...

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Categories: hounded, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Villanelle: No Curse Worse Than the Place and Name You Inherit To Hate
Villanelle: No curse worse than the place and name you inherit to hate

No curse worse than the place and name you inherit to hate
There where...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hounded, home, loss, moving on,
Form: Villanelle
Not Findable, Not There, Not True
If god is there then he should be findable,
By yourself, when you think and reason
Through rationality using logic graspable 
With conclusions that can’t be treason

Essentially,...

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Categories: hounded, faith, freedom, god, gospel,
Form: Quatrain
Rejection
Our childhood was selfish reign
did nothing but cause personal pain
our parents did naught for the self-worth gain
but ridiculed us into shame.

All our lives we tried...

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Categories: hounded, how i feel, irony,
Form: Free verse
Who's To Blame
Who’s To Blame?

Did you ever get the blame,
For a crime you didn’t commit?
Did you rant and rave,
Scream for justice
Or quietly submit?

Are you more a man...

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Categories: hounded, bible, christian, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad of the Bad Boy In Montana Dedicated To My Grandmothers Twin Sister
Some songs
Are of saddest times
The skies of darkest days
Some words
Bring such discontent
There are no gentle ways
To tell the tale
Without the tears
That tear the heart in...

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Categories: hounded, passion, school, son, son,
Form: Ballad
Horaitio Haiku Horn
Horatio Haiku Horn

What was a haiku
Did it get all over you
Or was I all wrong.

A haiku have heard
Can be completely absurd
Unless a bright bird.

If you...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hounded, crazy, funny, silly,
Form: Haiku
Fear of Death
Fierce, fiery, forgotten, forever
Enthralling, endless, elegant, enraged
Agitated, angry, anxious, autonomy 
Resentful, release, rhythm-less, repent 

Over, old-fashioned
Flash, finished

Destiny, dust, delicate, destruction, distraught
Effortless, eternal, expiration, empty, exhale
Alone,...

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Categories: hounded, death, humanity, leaving, life,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things