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
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt 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
Forgive My SilenceDear 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
Categories:
severed, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Price of ParadiseWe 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
I'M MoreYou 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
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
He Was My SunHe 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
You Foolishly Once Thought You Had It Bad: a CollaborationWhen 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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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
Categories:
severed, fate, love, lust, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Gold LeafThe 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
Mad Molly ShawThis 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
What Mom HearsToll-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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Categories:
severed, family, father, lifeson, dad,
Form:
Quatrain
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 1And 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