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Best Misused Poems

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


Premium Member Maid of the Myst
Maid of the Myst

I lie in repose
Under the falls
In a tranquil pool
Of turquoise blue

He left me for another
This I could not suffer
My pain already drowning...

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Categories: misused, baby, beautiful, daughter, death,
Form: Free verse



Mother Nature
Mother Nature..

I see a mountain; wake me up there.
Tired of dreaming, no time to spare.
I will be flying soberly drunk.
I am just living, don’t ask...

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Categories: misused, love, mountains, sunshine, wisdom,
Form: Rubaiyat
Hope & Faith
My mommy strike me last night,
But I promise this will be our last fight,
I'm gonna run away to a place that's bright,
And when I'm gone,...

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© Lee Nguyen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misused, lifeme, hope, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member To Dance With Mary Jane
I never got to dance with Mary Jane
although I heard she sure knows how to swing!
She has a twin, and he is masculine;
he doesn’t have...

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Categories: misused, social,
Form: Blank verse
Eddembe Ly'Abakyala
Women are women,
not like men
the head at home.

Women's rights at home
are misused by men,
and others are killed
in minor things.

What's wrong with men,
who behave a bad...

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Categories: misused, family, life,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Inanevilpredatorialmendacity
What a slap in the face!
It’s an international disgrace!

(Descriptive distraction)
and (subversion in action)

It’s now commonly used in parlance by judiciary
while in literature this prevalent (lie)...

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Categories: misused, caregiving, literature,
Form: Couplet
Empty Words
Words at the edges
Of your Tongue
Are not merely Words.

A Thought trying
Desperately to be expressed.

If hope lie in words
Is Hopelessness the absence?
No sound, no chirp, no...

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Categories: misused, confusion, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Give the Government Back To the People
We went all our children
To be in land of the free
We want all our children
To be, to be
Live in a land of liberty
By our consitution...

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Categories: misused, america, change, community, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Trying Times
Trying Times

Can I maintain this life
Without begging Christ 
To save me 
From the life he gave me 
Can I walk to the plot
To where lays...

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Categories: misused, daughter, death, father, forgiveness,
Form: Bio
Values
When most all you've had's been taken,
and the rest all took off and gone.
Been misused and abused,
for so, so long.
When you work so hard,
for all...

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Categories: misused, life
Form: Rhyme
What's Real
It was a cold night; reach for the pocket to stroke light 
Smoke exit his throat ‘til he choke on his own spite 
Rolled dice...

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© Ryan Nash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misused, loveme, light, light, me,
Form: Rhyme
Gotta Let Their Soul Cry
Raped and Molestated in childhood, 
   Abused and Misused in pre-adulthood,
     Alone and confused they stood; feeling
  ...

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Categories: misused, childhood, confusion, depression, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
Wont Back Down Nor Give Up
I will not be another statistic
out on the street without a dime to my name
I will not be another out cast
Who can't go into a...

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Categories: misused, courage, devotion, world,
Form: Free verse
The Night He Returned
Adam was a husband,
misused by a wife.
He was very sincere,
and slain with a knife.
Ann laughs at his funeral.
She snickers to the bank.
She escapes with his...

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Categories: misused, imagination, life, night, life,
Form: Rhyme
No One Notices
Her heaven will be a love without betrayal
Reality is an ugly, misused state
Of which the world should have never been

Around and around we go
Day in...

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Categories: misused, confusion, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse

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