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Best Painfully Poems

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


Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: painfully, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: painfully, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Happy Birthday, Andrea
How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: painfully, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Fragile Is Life
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Categories: painfully, death, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: painfully, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: painfully, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: painfully, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Drew a Heart
I can't watch a happy ending,
Guy gets the gal,
Girl gets her pal,
I can't do it with out crying.

Maybe I'm like you,
maybe you cry too.
I'll tell...

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Categories: painfully, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Is a Storm Brewing
There is a storm brewing and it is in my head,
Words are swirling in a mighty roaring wind;
Like colourful leaves tumbling and twirling,
And then it...

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Categories: painfully, dream, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: painfully, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Winter Walking Blues
Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...

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Categories: painfully, brother, childhood, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
The Scorn of Cain
East of Eden we still painfully churn
where belief is earliest bloodshed's birth
and every wicked man shall have his turn
to spill his rage upon the wretched...

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Categories: painfully, allegory, analogy, bible, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Through Deep Darkness Unable To Steer
It was deep dark, silence roaming outside
if I couldn't see and hear, it is  myself to chide
the urge within pushed my fright aside
time to...

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Categories: painfully, beauty, deep, destiny, friendship
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hands of a Master
At my ripe age it's plain to me
That wisdom can come painfully

             ...

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Categories: painfully, analogy, art, faith, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: painfully, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain

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