Best Merciless Poems

Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.

Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain green;
for your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain.

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“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” 
– General George Pickett

Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder and a battlefield worn
Ghosts of decisions a burden he'd borne.

"Forward,...

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Rhinoceros and elephants
are hunted for their horns...
there are very few extant:
profit has a malicious intent!

Predators are to blame for the merciless
slaughtering...they attack these harmless,
huge animals grazing on the vast plains
of Africa: hear their cry in the wilderness! 

For every animal they kill...
there should be a...

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The tiles upon the floor
are creaking like the door.
We're doomed to the thieving,
their wicked hearts beating
for money, we have no more.

Our windows freely swing,
letting in horrible stink,
we live by pure luck,
but mostly it sucks;
items are stolen in a blink.

The neighbor's hounds are dopes.
they allow the...

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A Merciless Life	By Robert Denton (June 2015)

I have walked a merciless life.
Bombed and battered with precision.
From my childhood to middle age strife.
To have free will is not my decision.

Bombed and battered with precision.
But death is still death regardless of technology.
To have free will is not...

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There once was a wolf, who craved for food,

It had evil intentions, and never thought good.

One day it noticed six fluffy goats,

Took one of them and grabbed it by the throat.

Then went for the second and scorched it in a blaze,

And on the third goat...

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Depart! you monsterous 
Creature,mercilessly 
Devouring your victims.
Scanning your preying 
Eyes in nook and cranny, 
Searching and devising 
havoc on souls...taking 
Every chance,never 
wavering,ruining lives 
And deaths by your foul 
Deeds.
"Oh! I have lost my 
Investment,""my wasted 
Efforts."These are some 
Of the victims of your 
Sinister...

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Sometimes I forget that I’m holding my breath,

                  the reason why;

until I begin to suffocate.

My chest begins to burn, 

my vision un-tethered to

the spectrum slung toward it. 

All...

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Merciless hunger, 
How many lives of innocent children*  
Have you to slaughter   
For
The insatiable appetite of the voracious vultures of
Greed to appease? 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
     06 MARCH 2014


* According to the 2013, World Hunger and Poverty Facts and...

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In this merciless city,
There is no place for a love so true.
In this merciless city,
It is a crime to love.
Here, love is considered a taboo.

In this merciless city
A teardrop makes up for a desire.
In this merciless city,
Love is playing with fire....

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Merciless cruelty is

A mouthful of pain and a stomach gorged with flesh.
The earth’s lungs falling for rapacious sustenance.
Hearts burdened with the corpulent lard.
Savage suffering of the innocent. 

Merciless cruelty is

A morality tale unheard or ignored emanating disease.
Contemptuous opulence of one above those afflicted.
Karmic solutions from...

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I can still hear the rumbling and drilling sound of the machine rubbing against the trees, and the dust absorbing the penitent wisdom of the futile murder scene. The loop bends solemnly underneath the fence and the rope swinging pitifully from the mercury head. I...

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They dwell in a far off dry wood,
Browse but on hardy grass no good,
Drink left o’er water in restraint, 
Even then, poor deer do get slain.
Who can amuse men of mean mood?      
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Translation |19.10.2024|men, deer, please

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands...

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MERCILESS   CITY

Grimy city blocks worn and cold are lost
In rusted steel and roots of permafrost. 
Faintly emerging from the gloom hazily misted,
The crane’s spire is a ship’s mast listed 
In an ice-fog off Baffin’s distant northwest coast  -
A crooked sky-hook reduced to...

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The Moon and the night companion,
March for the same journey
The journey of sky,
The Moon fills her solitude with the promises
Promises of lifetime togetherness and love,
and the night flaunts on his promises with the air’s verse,
Unblemished each other
The moon is languid without her,
And night is sombre...

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