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Best Poison Poems

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Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poison, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: poison, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Such Thing As Forever
We all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poison, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: poison, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: poison, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: poison, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Suicide Masterpiece
Suicide Masterpiece

Sweatdrop
On top
Trigger pop
Written note
All I got
Hang knot
Body rot
Suicide cop

I hope not
Cry out loud
I think not
Body's hot
I am too proud
I am loved a lot
Rooftop.
Suicide bride

Heavy...

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Categories: poison, abuse, art, body, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poison, horror,
Form: Rhyme
This Was Me
it began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...

i felt safe as...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poison, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One
Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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Categories: poison, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yew - Potd
We buried him under the large yew tree,
We all wore thick face masks as they should be.
The shade of the green yew tree was pleasant.
Yet...

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Categories: poison, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pause My Poetry
You can bleed me blind,
execute my eyes, 
victimize my vision, 
immolate my imagery, 
nullify my name, 
suppress me into silence, 
slaughter my soul, 
execute my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poison, angst, poetry, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Rhapsody
I remember
when I was a poor boy
and nobody loved me
mamma's tears felt like acid
burning holes in my heart -
I became breathless

triggers came without a guarantee
violence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poison, childhood, emotions, integrity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gemini Heart
Meet me in forever,
where the moon enclasps
the enchanting 
   heaven above us,
for you, are the music 
     playing on...

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Categories: poison, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: poison, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs