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Best Self Destruction Poems

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Premium Member Vibrations of heart - Blitz with Ink Empress

Can't stop flashbacks
Can't stop vibrations
Vibrations like echoes
Vibrations irritating wounds
Wounds that bleed
Wounds that torment
Torment the mind
Torment emotions
Emotions of guilt
Emotions full of anger
Anger from the past
Anger from...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self destruction, angst, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Blitz



Words of Mass Destruction
Words of Mass Destruction



Words like bullets do not have eyes, as they fly in our hearts and materialize
Deleterious breaths that we soon despise, words written...

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Categories: self destruction, abuse, hurt, words, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phantasmagoria
Assaulting me!  The darkness comes to be
    in devil’s guise. Phantom haunts my mind;
  in sleep paralysis I cannot flee...

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Categories: self destruction, abuse, dark, dream, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Love Versus Lust
Love is the one-time experience that cannot be measured, 
described or forgotten
while lust needs innovation to be boasted about and the other is dumped...

Love is...

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Categories: self destruction, feelings, love, lust, true
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unhinged
I ate myself the other day
Unhinged my jaw and chomped away
No crumb was left after I dined
No limbs, or head, or crooked spine 
Each bite...

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Categories: self destruction, emotions, feelings, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Van Helsing
A gentleman dressed all in black, hides amongst the shadow realm,
This inquisitions exorcist fights on the altar of justice
And faith, a white knight of the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self destruction, adventure, betrayal, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Show Me Television
The era of catatonic self-destruction has risen yet again from boulder-blocked caves,
Whose cavernous stalactite incisors drip with the blood of thorny crowns,
Worn in punitive irony...

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Categories: self destruction, addiction, social, society,
Form: Free verse
He Shelters Me With Care
When I'm down and my troubles overtake me,
And I can't understand just what to do,
I feel so small and He's so far up above me,
I...

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Categories: self destruction, hope, inspirational, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Lion, Tamer
I have fought you in tears for years,
useless in our abuse, an excuse for entertainment
at the merriment of no one save we two
and we knew...

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© Ryan Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self destruction, allegory, introspection, sad, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Martyr For the Unorthodox Word
If I had over 10,000 dreams
You'd be the only thing my mind could see
Judgment couldn't be real
Succumbing to the fear of this cold life
Find a...

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Categories: self destruction, allegory, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Ballad
I Shall Collaborate With You - Why
Clouds weep sending down vapour to mother earth
trying to quench the fires of self destruction
beheld, time lost to a cruel master
igniting lines, fused in delusion

Dreams cast forth...

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Categories: self destruction, dark,
Form: Verse
The Beauty In Futility
Futility
my heart breathes its last breath
Embraces its own death
Ready to be reborn 
and made anew

Can’t live a lie
Refuse to “do”
and I’ll DIE....
Focus now on why...

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Categories: self destruction, angst, death, dedication, depression,
Form: Free verse
Writing Letters Is a Dying Art
Dear Sir:
I realize you’ve been busy, so I’m sending a  letter of distress
Postmarked today, addressing my quality of living
Since the last time we told...

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Categories: self destruction, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bridges Burning
Bridges burning

Hanging onto the fragile ridge
of your life, under a bridge.

Seeing this, cuts deep like a knife,
filling our hearts with such strife.

Our souls constantly in...

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Categories: self destruction, daughter, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Phoenix
strike a match.
sulfur grazes my nose.
the flames tickle
the surrounding sky.
internal screams,
questioning motives,
FIRE is born.

smoke infiltrates
my lung and throat.
coughing greets the
unwelcome visitor.

FIRE reaches out
touches my hair,
eliminating...

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Categories: self destruction, introspection, life
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs