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Best Post Apocalyptic Poems


The Swing Set
...The Swing Set
By Kevin Robey
March 26, 2013

In a playground amongst the frozen wasteland
They swung together above the littered sand
He didn’t understand why she felt ok
Swinging in the cold,......

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: post apocalyptic, emo, loneliness, lonely, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Haughty Hankerings - the Hubris and Hollowness of Hieroglyphs and Holograms
...As Pharoah thought
Deep thoughts on Thoth,
He became serious
And thought of Osiris.

What of Seth?
What do Anubis and Horus sayeth?
Of Amun and Mut,
And panoplied Nut?

It may take me forev......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, fantasy, fun, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Equlibrium
...A post-apocalyptic society shrunk from socialism at its worst,
Whence a wicked mechanical  catastrophe confounded in us a curse.

The year was 3001 where what is has yet to be,
A thousand years a......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, science fiction, society, technology,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Heres Why My CV Needs Work
...NAME: Phil Latio.

QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet    
                           Commander).

POSITION: Head job.

AGE: pass.

SEX: I don’t like bei......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, humorous,
Form: List
Future
...Future


Sentimental memories;
Dreams of yesterday.
Wishing for a better opportunity,
To somehow change our ways.


This is our life, our time, our day;
Seize it with both hands,
Because t......

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: post apocalyptic, dark, destiny, future, history,
Form:
Post-Apocalyptic Blues
...Has Granny gone batty?
She tells us of love,
Of flowers and trees  
And a thing called a ‘dove’.
But none of these things exist now today,
Since the world heated up
And the lakes turned to clay.
The ......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, funny, imagination, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme



Console Reality
...Through putrid post apocalyptic wastelands
I wander gun in hand 
prepared to annihilate those critters 
who dare to cross my path
then I press the pause button 
and sip from my china cup
thankf......

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© Rob Carter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: post apocalyptic, lost, technology,
Form: Free verse
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
...(Idea engendered from Lombok earthquake: Indonesia)

Nary a chink of illumination pierces thru
thick cavernous rock solid chamber home
     to this crepuscular anchorite,
who spent untold countl......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Darkless
...I'm in love with my post apocalyptic silence
I'm in lust with my darkless absence of violence
My island 
My sun
Mind on the run

Nightfall is storm before the calm
The roof crumbles
The outsi......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, angel,
Form: Free verse
The Shield
...By Kevin Robey
February 24, 2013

This was my shield, now covered in rust
Laying in this dying field, collecting dust
Once it shined, and guarded my soul
Repelled the evil, from demons and trolls

I ......

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: post apocalyptic, emo, fantasy, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along
...Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
     timelessly ......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Melmoth the Wanderer
...they say i'm mad cynical ,  im down for the pentacle. all i see is you me, spiritually we've come to be .. different in so many aspects, that i expect, that you regret, you  had the stones to make th......

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© Red Falcon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: post apocalyptic, abuse, anxiety, depression, how
Form: ABC
What Is Love
...am tryna formulate some lines
Since you told me that u aint gonna be mine,
You got my heart with a feelings that i cannot 
define,
Love and live is all i have i in my mind
 
I love u do i need ......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, loveme, love, me,
Form: ABC
Dereliction Possibly Fake News Read All About It
...Dereliction (possibly "FAKE NEWS") - read all about it!

2020 presidential election
already promises seat of pants suspense
hint of (post apocalyptic) coming attractions
see – https://www.aol.co......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, abuse, anger, bullying, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Is This Poetry
...is this poetry?

ee cummings

darnit

they had time

to think of metaphor, allegory, imagery, rhythm, rhyme meter

I don't have time

this is poetry

of the apocalypse

poetry of the end

I don't hav......

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Categories: post apocalyptic, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry