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Best Preying Poems

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


Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: preying, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Musings On Faith
What if love is the religion,
and heaven a voice 
with no ego; 
synchronized in 
harmonious hope,
speaking dialects
of kindness?
What if hell is a myth, 
and evil...

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Categories: preying, gospel, heaven, imagination, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dark Side of October
The Dark Side of October

Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...

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Categories: preying, dark, horror, october, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: preying, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Messengers
Old and ugly and well married is the visage
that I carry, and yet, there is another world
that keeps opening up its magic door.
It sends me...

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Categories: preying, allegory, old, me, old,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Fight With Dragons and Wolves -
Take me into the realm of your midnight dreams awakening sleep 
Bring us to a higher level far away from misery and despair
Where waves through...

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Categories: preying, change, conflict, faith, perspective,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member An Ode To Trolls Hackers and Scammers
An Ode To Trolls Hackers And Scammers. 
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Hideous evil creatures
Attention seekers
Cowards who hide behind computers
Cold-hearted scavengers
Not unlike preying vultures
.
Childish and pathetic
Bloodsucking leeches
Inflated egotistical heretics
Unhappy with...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preying, abuse, angst,
Form: Ode
Night Owls
Their covenant wings
Like cherubim on alters
Spread out for preying...

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Categories: preying, animals, nature, religion,
Form: Haiku
If Only
If only...I could start over again.
Took that job in Memphis and stayed away from so-called-friends. 
     If only...I could right the...

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Categories: preying, nostalgia, giggle,
Form: Free verse
A Pair of Brown Eyes
it comes in rapid progression
parting reality with subtle lisps.	 brown eyes
a forest floor of fern
   ever changing with the seasons
	   ...

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Categories: preying, love, passion, time
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ukrainian Senyru
SCARRED FOR LIFE

children are screaming
they have the thousand mile stare ~
traumatised for life

TEARFUL GOODBYES

at the rail station
dad's hug their wives and children ~
say goodbye with...

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Categories: preying, 7th grade, abuse, children,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Right Eye Removed
"The Right Eye Removed"



intuition guides a feline mind
to feel vain glorious 
in the poetry of dreams
stretching limits of awareness
velvet pawed 
a burnt orange 
bittersweet marmalade...

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Categories: preying, love,
Form: Epic
The Woman and the Fisherman
There was a young woman living by the sea.
Her house was on the shore owned by her family.
The house of a fisherman that was tall...

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Categories: preying, first love, fishing, girlfriend,
Form: Narrative
The Circle of Life
A predator among us.
A villian in our midst.
An entity of evil,
Clouding up our wits.
Preying on the innocent.
Devouring the strong.
A sycophant immortal.
Unbound by right and wrong.
White...

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Categories: preying, abuse, allegory, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Chocolate Pie
giving endless supply . . .
bright sun, blue sky
beauties for the eye 
bird and butterfly
fields of wild rye
in soft winds sigh
rabbits spry 
and foxes sly
preying...

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Categories: preying, humorous, nature,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs