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Best Merciless Poems

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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: merciless, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: merciless, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tribute To Leonora G
~ Yolanda was--her name ~    Featuring:) Leonora Galinta

From a hell storm,
A mighty she-devil took on its form
Like a woman scorn ascending from...

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Categories: merciless, death, deep, evil, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Violin Notes Fall From Heaven No More
Her trembling twilight 
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...

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Categories: merciless, child abuse, death, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Brothers Ii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: merciless, cute, immigration, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Bottomless Sorrow -
"a dagger of pain, a tear of grief"
                 ...

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Categories: merciless, angst, cry, emotions, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...

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Categories: merciless, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: merciless, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member December Rain
Unexpectedly the timid sun made an appearance,
an orb of flames, silent amidst the peaceful horizon.

Wistfully, the harmony was short lived.

Ferocious winds blew with merciless tones.

Melancholic...

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Categories: merciless, analogy, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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: merciless, age, life, wisdom,
Form: Personification
Premium Member We Are Brothers Iii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: merciless, peace, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: merciless, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member That was Then, This is Now

I once saw a man with kaleidoscopic eyes,
reflecting in hues of periwinkle and persimmon.
His heart illuminated in shades of scarlet, 
marigold and clementine,
releasing rainbow ink...

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Categories: merciless, analogy, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Quiet Fury
A quiet fury gathered on Horizon’s distant side.
Its merciless intensity was destined to collide
with unsuspecting entities entombed beneath the ground
all huddled ‘neath a canopy, immune...

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Categories: merciless, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ruminations On Life
(The news of the death of dear and near ones reaching us on a daily basis has left me thinking of the transitoriness of life...

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Categories: merciless, anxiety, death, journey,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs