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Best Preyed Poems

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


Premium Member My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs

There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…

seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape 
of sun-raptured...

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Categories: preyed, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



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: preyed, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shadow To Shadow
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Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where you played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade

Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
No grass...

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Categories: preyed, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Beausoleil
We loved the land
We tilled the earth, under sun we toiled
We pledged our souls, to nature’s whim
The King of France none to pleased

We took the...

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Categories: preyed, history, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Hoodlum-Triple Collaboration With Jan Allison and Marti Sutherland
I followed that cad Robyn Hood 
and discovered he's up to no good 
An expert at cheating 
bad mouthing and bleating 
His actions I've not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preyed, silly,
Form: Limerick



The Knight's Tale of the Night's Tail
Sir Homophone came to meet the maid that somehow stayed so slim.
Her feat was to stay chaste to him and yet by his feet be...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preyed, funny, happy, night, happy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Shadow To Shadow Revised
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Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where I played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade

Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
Sweet grass...

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Categories: preyed, abuse, anger, assonance, betrayal,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Prayers
Perched high upon the escarpment
of sandstone rubble, the boy sat,
shaded from the rising of the sun
in the shadow of Kings.
Sharp eyed he preyed 
upon the...

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Categories: preyed, adventure, allegory, childhood, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before You Go a Little Way, Prospecting
for F. A.

You, in going a little way from yourself
Have gone a long way from my gullible ilk.
« I’m trying hard not to like you,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preyed, girlfriend-boyfriend, words, me, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member As Thorns Draw Blood
No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds
I could not lick the festering gashes clean
Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene

No...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preyed, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Justice For All
Justice for All

time marches on
reality's fire consumes—
dreams go up in smoke

Dishonest weights, deceptive scales forsake
as chains of injustice rake the flesh
of the preyed-upon bleeding, amid...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preyed, change, discrimination, future, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Avatar
I look upon your dauntless trail
and see your steadfast heart prevail

'round every challenge big or small
you chose the path of love for all

when darkness preyed...

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Categories: preyed, thank you
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The War Against Humanity
THE WEAK ARE BEING
PREYED UPON.
MOST DON'T HAVE A CLUE.
GLOBALIST HAVE A GOAL.
THEIR GOAL, CONTROLLING YOU.

BIG PHARMA HAS YOUR DNA.
WHAT DO YOU THINK
THEY'LL DO?
GENETICALLY MODIFY
HUMAN BEINGS?
THAT...

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Categories: preyed, education, freedom, humanity, identity,
Form: Free verse
Bag of Spiders
Disgusting could be a weaker word to express the scene,
Nauseating and stomach-churning the locus has been;
Sliding, slithering, groveling, crouching, crawling, creeping, 
Filling, feeling, and falling...

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Categories: preyed, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In a Barrel
The Poconos was not the premiere honeymoon spot.
The delivery, not far from the rushing rainbow knot.
Not anywhere, near my entrance, when love calls.
I might have...

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Categories: preyed, birth, travel,
Form: Rhyme

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