Best Savaged Poems
Wild Is the Night
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Wild Is the Night
Night wakes
In atonality of imploding infernos
Stretches,
Toss......
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Categories:
savaged, angst, night, storm, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Revive the Breakage
...High upon the highest heights
I see the most tremulous sight
A small girl, fair and tranquil
Smiling strangely, sitting still
Beneath a sobbing willow tree
She recites a verse upon her knee
S......
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Categories:
savaged, allegory, death, devotion, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Torn and Tattered Wings
...Torn and Tattered Wings
It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize
Hard into your heart
I look in you......
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Categories:
savaged, inspirational, loveworld,
Form:
Free verse
Periphery
...On a path laid as a snake,
Trodden down a winding wake,
Curls and slithers into night,
To thrones of ever-dimming light;
I hold still and gripped with feeling
In a mist that wraps concealing,
A......
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Categories:
savaged, loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Verse
The Power of Water
...“Don’t turn your back on the water...” my grandmother told me as I
skimmed stones across the tiny ripples of rock pools.
Small scaly creatures and stones sliced toes like knives but
we were full ......
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Categories:
savaged, family,
Form:
Free verse
A Lycanthrope Moon
...It was long gone midnight, and nervously I walked
There was something in the bushes, I was being stalked.
I could smell it's fetid breath, It was lurking in the dark
It scared me half to death as ......
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Categories:
savaged, fantasy, horror, howl,
Form:
Rhyme
*****Destructus
...Apparently Soup finds the Latin word for ‘Human’ offensive;
about as ‘P.C. gone wrong’ as it’s possible to get. I have had to
include completely superfluous hyphens in order to get the word
accep......
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Categories:
savaged, humanity, war,
Form:
Limerick
Contest We Don'T Need No Stinking Contests
...Contests! good for building egos up
great for knocking creativity down
as I pore over words and sounds
to make my poetry jump off the page
to come alive in others minds
in the most ima......
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Categories:
savaged, fun, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
With the Fleece Torn From a Fallen Suitor's Heart
...With The Fleece Torn From A Fallen Suitor's Heart
Where were you, as cold winds ate these aging bones,
away counting your wealth, your precious gemstones;
a marauding mist that surrounds its ......
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Categories:
savaged, betrayal, dark, judgement, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Land of My Fathers
...Arising, splits the purple nuclear sky,
Rends the dark valleys with light,
Spills along footpaths and alleys,
The glory of morning, ending of night.
In sanction, closing of the chaos,
Soothes ......
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Categories:
savaged, history, inspirational, life, social,
Form:
Verse
Bernard's Writing To Esther By Vera Polozkova Translation
...Bernard is writing Esther: "I have a family, a nice shed,
I always take the lead and have never in life been lead.
In the mornings I walk Jess, at night I drink rum, eat bread
But when I see y......
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Categories:
savaged, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Black Friday
...Fists flying people crying
On this crazy day black Friday
What a disgrace as the hunter’s race
Christmas bargains with a punch in the face
Dozens of brawls and 999 call......
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Categories:
savaged, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Animal Cruelty
...I watched a shocking video today,
It’s an example of animal cruelty,
A variety of them killed without mercy,
Skinned to the bones while it breathing heavily.
A heart with no soul for doing this acti......
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Categories:
savaged, animal, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Lamb Among the Literary Lions
...LAMB AMONG THE LITERARY LIONS
Housewives, secretaries, the odd pro willing to stoop,
All came, delinquents, child prodigies, derelict old men
“All welcome” – the Chair of the Writers’ Group
To ......
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Categories:
savaged, abuse, anti bullying, people,
Form:
Sonnet
What I Called Life
...Naked copulation embedded this one,
Before one imagined or everyone,
When the night was mostly savaged
And the light was damaged bandaged.
Blessed where the ones given a son,
Under a circular......
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Categories:
savaged, abuse, anger, bereavement, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme