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Best Pawned Poems

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


Premium Member Purity Pawned
What does innocence cost, you ask?
    It seems it's just a grand,
        For I know...

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Categories: pawned, abuse, people, violence, women,
Form: Rhyme



The Man Who Pawned His Soul
He gazes out the window, thinking of his man
The one who left with kisses and bruises;
The one who stole his everything
Before selling it all out...

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Categories: pawned, lost love
Form: Free verse
Money
Money money, ringing in your tills,
Calling us to worship,
The hundred dollar bills.
Bend our knees in wonder,
Bow our heads in awe,
At the power of the liar,
Who...

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Categories: pawned, angel, christian, dark, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Long and Lonely Days
Long and lonely days
     lost by hope in quiet song
     from sounds this wishful heart has pawned
...

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Categories: pawned, hope, lonely, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Distant Song
I sometimes,
     through the noise of disaffection,
     hear a distant song,
     with soothing...

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Categories: pawned, longing, memory, song,
Form: Free verse



Tell Me
I'm lost hurt and angry
Why did you take his life
I want, No I need to know
Tell me, Tell me why
I deserve to know

Haven't you done...

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Categories: pawned, absence, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Munajat
Absconding Muse
My muse blew a fuse
Without excuse fealty did recuse
In jilting fashion without compassion 
Tendered passion did stingily ration
Lofty discourse from pen did divorce
With no remorse...

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Categories: pawned, funnymetaphor,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Neruda
Self made men like you are rare
Such vision and passion you had to share

So sure at such an early age
Of words you placed upon a...

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Categories: pawned, history, politicalwords,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member China White
Mickey mouse strung out
China white
Oh my Minnie!
Zen
Yin 
Yang
Thirty days in the hole
Tattooed dream
Scattered and covered
Ketchup and eggs
Alley blues
Toe rings and silver
Gold to be pawned
Living is...

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Categories: pawned, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ring
I  am waiting and the warmth of you
I see  the jewelry worn proudly
I have some as well
Don't let the ring weigh 
No reminder...

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Categories: pawned, dedication,
Form: Free verse
A Pirate's Redemption
Fishers fish and merchants drift
But pirates lurk and seek to sift
They show their wealth with coins they spit   
While honest men give honest...

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Categories: pawned, betrayal, change, corruption, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
With All the Homesickness of the Foreigner
Vania Konstantinova was born, lives and works in Sofia. She graduated Classical Ballet in
her native town and in Petersburg as well as Polish Philology in...

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Categories: pawned, love, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Germinal: the Revolt At Le Voreux Mine
Their  portraits hanging firmly
from the naked wall, all our goods
pawned for the cause.
To see our vision and strike through
Our lively evenings and peaceful nights
conquered...

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Categories: pawned, history
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Piggy's Story
There are many pig-type stories,
Mostly told in piggy fables.
Most are cheerful little characters,
With "Happy Endings" in their labels.

Let's start with 'Porky Pig' cartoon,
S-s-s-stammering pig of...

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Categories: pawned, parody, , cute,
Form: Light Verse
Bedouin: Desert Transient
Freelance wanderer carefully navigating the vast expanse
Shadow warrior doth stealthily advance without 
remonstrance
With bartered lance, pawned knife; abridged parlance
Shuffling in tantric harmony o'er unforgiving terrain;...

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Categories: pawned, people
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs