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Best Menacing Poems

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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: menacing, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member White Cane
He walked down Goverment Road West
With a white cane, in shaking hand
Wearing Stevie wonder glasses
People called him the pop bottle man

With a white cane, in...

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Categories: menacing, community, history, memory,
Form: Pantoum
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: menacing, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Confronting Old Age
I see you coming, old age
Approaching, at an ever-accelerating pace,
Your face is so grim
Your expression is so austere
Your look so menacing,
A frightening sight you are
...

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Categories: menacing, age, life, wisdom,
Form: Personification
Approaching Storm
Skulking between the thinning clumps 
Of tattered sedge
A balding coot despondently calls,
Scratching Blackbirds scutter deeply 
Into a Hawthorn hedge;
Whilst, creeping stealthily,
Gathering darkness onwardly crawls.

The blackened...

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Categories: menacing, weather,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 1
The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked...

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Categories: menacing, allegory, angel, french, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Eyes Have It
Some are ever hollow
Some are full of lies
Some are evil; menacing
Some are old and wise

Some are full of mischief
Some are full of fear
Some are deep...

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© Gayle Rodd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: menacing, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom's Trail Vi
Among,
The towering mountains 
Of 
menacing fanaticism 
And
In the midst of the shadows 
Of 
Constant fear
Agonizing humanity,         ...

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Categories: menacing, love, peace, violence,
Form: Free verse
Rains
It’s raining outside
I can see on my window panes
Rain droplets slide
Inside seemingly dry eyes something triggers rains

Memories are cruel
They don’t spare
O agonizing thoughts! Do not...

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Categories: menacing, allegory, life, lonely, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dark Reflection
...and the Demon spoke,
its voice deep and mellow like smooth satiny chocolate,
"There is more, much more than good and evil,"
the words thunderously whispered.
The verdant emerald...

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Categories: menacing, dark, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Transcendence
A tent of brightly coloured wool 
Along an effervescent pool
Filled with deliciously cool streams
This would last a week and I would surely weep
For in my...

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Categories: menacing, allusion, arabic, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Bending the Darkness
Bending the darkness

Look at you cowering, haunted by fiction
Shapes at the window of menacing tone
Tearing your hope into shreds as you lie there
Gazing at ceilings...

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Categories: menacing, encouraging, fear, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mourning of Mother Earth
You, unfeeling creatures
Who call yourselves human,

You, fleeting bubbles of reason,
Accidental parasites of time,

You, filthy microbes of cancer,
Ephemera of invincible eternity,

You, who try to fill your...

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Categories: menacing, earth, humanity, life, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: menacing, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clouds
Who can know the mysterious 
ways of the clouds? 
They travel in white whipped masses
and gather like solemn pinnacles 
looking upwards in reverent penitence. 

Silent...

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Categories: menacing, beauty, earth, sky,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs