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Best Jealousy Poems

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Premium Member The Dance of Jealousy
Her piercing eyes burn through paper-thin lies
igniting fear as flames erupt inside.
And accusingly, she breaks down and cries,
trying to salvage what's left of her pride.

She...

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Categories: jealousy, angst, anxiety, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jealousy
~It's Out There~

Green colored field 
A flower without the sun 
Wilts from distrust 
now washed away 
by the man storm

~*~...

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Categories: jealousy, abuse, anger, conflict, dark,
Form: Tanka
Poetry Soap
It’s almost time and I must run
to watch/read Poetry Soap for fun.
It comes on every day at this time
and I don’t want to miss a...

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Categories: abuse, conflict, jealousy, love,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: jealousy, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Covetous
Is it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence

To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse

In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...

...

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Categories: jealousy, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Green With Envy
Envious Ivy was her name
I’d buy something new – she’d put me to shame
My designer coat in a shade of emerald green
Ivy bought an identical...

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Categories: humorous, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Part Time Poet
She calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny

She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...

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Categories: angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Oh Why Seren Roberts and Tim Smith
Why oh Why

A Collaboration between Seren Roberts, Tim Smith and Arthur Vaso

Poem inspired by Seren Roberts

Each poem written from a different view
The Murderer
The Murdered
The Mannequins...

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Categories: art, death, funeral, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Categories: betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Divining Heart I Could Have Foreseen
With Divining Heart I Could Have Foreseen

With true divining heart I could have seen
little ripples of thy deep discontent.
My heart a meadow, once lush and...

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Categories: jealousy, art, break up, growing
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Oasis
[A Pleiades consists of 7 lines, each having 6 syllables.
The title consists of ONE word only (and that word will NOT 
be used again in...

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Categories: jealousy, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Disorientation
Somethings are best 
said through blank
scriptures in sheer 
silence, but pulling the 
violin strings of
a poet strumming
to personify pain, 
with tempests of 
torment rushing 
through...

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Categories: angst, emotions, gothic, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parasite
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The widow, dressed in glossy black,	
glides from the shadows at the back.	
A veil lies slack across her face	
to mask the grief her features lack.	

Possessed of...

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Categories: jealousy, assonance, bereavement, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inner Turmoil
It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my...

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Categories: jealousy, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Tormented Moon
The.isolated moon in  far arc of her epogee,
As she searches Earth's surface in cold winter's hemisphere,
She bites her tongue of protest of what she...

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Categories: jealousy, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry