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Best Punishment Poems

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


Premium Member Snow Globe
Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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Categories: punishment, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: punishment, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: punishment, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nemesis-POTD
In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.

With nefarious intent,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: punishment, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Silence the Silent One
On a reminiscing of a poet I thought I would make a call
 
But on searching for this name sake I was left appalled

The name...

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Categories: punishment, absence, abuse, bullying, endurance,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Bipolar
I am bipolar,
That’s what they say,
Maybe the mood swings.
Gave me away,
Maybe it was the battle going on;
Much deeper inside,
That caused me to run,
That caused me...

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Categories: punishment, philosophyme, me, time,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member My Country 'Tis of Thee
You, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...

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Categories: punishment, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Yearn For Him To Strum My Chords
I am to him a Stradivarius, a treasured violin
His bow expertly caresses my supple strings
My body moans when tucked beneath his chin
Revving to his rhythmic...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: punishment, lost love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt Ravidas
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from...

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Categories: punishment, art, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saint Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day
                      ...

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Categories: punishment, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Robert J Lindley
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss 
Collaboration with Robert J. Lindley 

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting...

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Categories: punishment, dark, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Peach Tree
They would ripen all at once
under a hot sun and hang
in a sugary glut only for a day 
or two before starting to spoil. 
I...

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Categories: punishment, child, god, nostalgia, sin,
Form: Free verse
Eve
Does the past really matter?
 Does it set you free? 
I’m absorbed in the sin,
That is surrounding him and me. 

Lost in the curiosity,
Cold to...

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Categories: punishment, angel, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slumber
Repulsive Slumber  

Down the basement, 
not a single color of envy,
flat-lines, are standing still all around.
The stillness is suffocating,
everything coming my way.
Different from,
the morals,
of...

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Categories: punishment, dedication, slam,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Childhood Inequality In School
Some children come into the school building dancing, singing, hopping, bursting with uninhibited glee.
They exchange giddy, happy stories about their day at the mall, dropping...

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Categories: punishment, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Narrative

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