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Best Severed Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: severed, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Forgive My Silence
Dear December, 
Forgive my silence, 
I’m still bleeding from 
         the lacerations,
I still hear the echoes 
from...

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Categories: severed, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of Thistle Truth
seasons keep m o v i n g 
 and s w i r l i n g
memories keep f l o w i n...

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Categories: severed, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Price of Paradise
We don't talk about it
Since hands upon the clock have ceased to move
When minutes creep, on skittish feet
The walls grow small~

By blue degrees, she drowns...

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Categories: severed, death, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M More
You severed my wings
For your failure to fly
But I soar - 'cause I'm more
than your ex, or your why.

11/6/19...

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Categories: severed, flying, recovery from, strength,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: severed, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Was My Sun
He was my sun, my one and only son,
attired as a cowboy for the day. 
And so I handed him a little gun
of fastened random...

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Categories: severed, war,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member You Foolishly Once Thought You Had It Bad: a Collaboration
When tons of doom filled nights fall on your head,
hot embers glow and fires burn unabated,
you recall her last breath and wish you were dead.
In...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: severed, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Graceful
"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before...

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Categories: severed, death, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blame
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until 
            ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: severed, fate, love, lust, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Gold Leaf
The last gold leaf hangs on the bough;
summer is just a memory now.
You, too, have gone, my golden friend;
our summer days came to an end.

We...

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Categories: severed, absence, bereavement, death, farewell,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the...

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Categories: severed, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Mom Hears
Toll-free is the call on this special day
as my gratitude ascends the umbilical cord,
never severed, even in the afterlife.

“I planted begonias in the garden you...

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Categories: severed, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
12,045 Days ......(And Counting)
My affirmation deceitfully severed
forever robbed by selfishness
Left to tackle life alone 
Tumbling in the wake of my dad's mess

He left when I was three 
The...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: severed, family, father, lifeson, dad,
Form: Quatrain
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 1
And the music began,
And with power so strong, I nearly fell back from the force
Snarling, smiling, demons held me upright,
As the Precarious Prince began,

“Dare you...

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Categories: severed, adventure, crazy, deep, desire,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs