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Best Shock Poems

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


Premium Member The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause...

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Categories: shock, age, body, humorous, men,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: shock, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: shock, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Homecoming
It was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...

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Categories: shock, america, father, home, mother,
Form: Narrative
This Was Me
it began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...

i felt safe as...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shock, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...

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Categories: shock, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: shock, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: shock, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Porcelain Doll
Porcelain doll, with a face so pretty 
a country gal, ran away to the city 
Worked in a bar, dancing on tables 
beat shovelling sh-it,...

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Categories: shock, age, allusion, girl, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She - Epitome of Erotic Love
An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and...

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Categories: shock, love, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Drunk Drivers Guilt
I drove home from a party one winters night
I'd had quite a few drinks but I felt alright
It was pouring rain as I approached our...

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Categories: shock, car, death, drink, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Olena and Pavlo
Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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Categories: shock, death, love, soldier, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shipwrecked Heart
I always hated water,
being in the middle of nowhere,
but it was the only way to be with you..

Now,
I'm helpless, my fingers trembling,
lips quivering, eyes full...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shock, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Thunder
I am the unseen titan of all elements, 
heard beyond the darkest clouds.
I rumble in rhythms of 'heavy metal' rage, 
sending shock waves across the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shock, weather,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Grading On the Curve
I’ve been told, I deserve so much,
for the work I've done, for the lives I touch.

I would like to say, my dear friend,
what I deserve,...

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Categories: shock, inspirational, jesus, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs