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Best Ordeal Poems

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The Gingerbread Family's Ordeal
I received a beautiful Christmas gift the other day,
it was so quaint and pretty but ate it anyway,
was a gingerbread house with a gingerbread family,
consumed...

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Categories: ordeal, food, house, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's Valentine
Wouldn't you rather~

Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordeal, anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: ordeal, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Roar
Just because she roars
Doesn't mean she doesn't feel 
You don't know her ordeal
Stop and think before you squeall
You don't know what she has to conceal...

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Categories: ordeal, abuse, courage, deep, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laugh through 2024
“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordeal, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordeal, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: ordeal, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
My Shoes
I have this thing called ADHD
The H isn’t silent, I’ll help you to see
Ever since I was small, it’s lived inside me
It affects who I...

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Categories: ordeal, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joan of Arc
The Medieval era
was filled with wars and strife
between the French and English
at cost of limb and life.

The French became disheartened;
their victories were rare,
a humbling situation
which...

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Categories: ordeal, hero, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: ordeal, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loneliness
1  LONELINESS

(Message of hope dedicated to all those that have been through such an excruciating experience.)


Loneliness:
Painful
Agonizing
Merciless 
Unbearable solitude,
When you are present, Time immobile remains,
And
Each...

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Categories: ordeal, inspirational, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
These Nightmares Feel Real
These nightmares feel real, like I’ve been here before,
I must be stuck in a phantasm of visionary abhor.
It was when my eyes closed that I...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordeal, dream, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ravaged
He espied her all alone
In the open by the lake
Sighed in lustful undertone
And her body craved to take.

Golden orange, rusty brown
What a beauty! Flaming hot!
She...

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Categories: ordeal, abuse, lust,
Form: Quatrain
Pinocchio's Proposal
Pinocchio found a girl
She put his heart in a whirl
He met her near a wishing well
His love of her he must tell
The trouble was she...

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Categories: ordeal, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Update Again and Thank You All
Hi Everyone. 

First of all I just want to thank you all for your kindness, support, encouragement and prayers. It has made such a positive...

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Categories: ordeal, appreciation, care, friendship, poets,
Form: Free verse

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