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Best Severe Poems

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Premium Member Today's Weather Forecast: Severe Wind Warning
Due to growing Nimbus clouds of oppression
an area of low pressure has been building
Rest assured, it won't lead to bouts of depression
but rumblings of thunder...

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Categories: severe, humorous, wind,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted-

Deep cuts from within.
She faced bravely the many hardships of womanly life
How did she end up like this?
Severe depression after her first mental breakdown
Sorrow...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: severe, absence, abuse, change, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: severe, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: severe, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Invisible: Co-Written With C Devonshire
clad in rags, he wanders on Wall Street
   he is invisible to hustling stock brokers
       he is...

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Categories: severe, remember, veterans day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mental Hospital Bills
dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid...

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Categories: severe, education, sad, slam, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weather Forecast
December 2017

Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the...

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Categories: severe, humorous, life, weather, word
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Think of You - a Horrendous Night - 0
I Think Of You - A Horrendous Night (Part 0)

Two a.m....
I open my window 

...a crack,

the dark is blinding.

It is a severe cold outside 
a...

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Categories: severe, introspection,
Form: Free verse
I Can'T Breathe
I can’t breathe

still in my shackles
no chance to escape my isolation
cries of anguish emancipated
from an awareness that is unfree
the stain is but human made
a long...

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Categories: severe, emotions, faith, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
          ...

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Categories: severe, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Worst and Best Christmas Ever
It was December Christmas eve, and it was snowing outside
Kids were making snowmen and some boys had made a slide 
Our eight year old daughter...

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Categories: severe, car, christmas, daughter, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Close Encounter
I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...

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Categories: severe, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 1856

During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial...

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Categories: severe, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
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: severe, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What Happened
WHAT HAPPENED

Darkness is enveloping sinister 
and frightening,
Elusive, alluring, captivating and
Inviting,
Every night it falls like a 
clock that is punctual,
And we accept it as a part...

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Categories: severe, dark, faith, light,
Form: Rhyme

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