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Best Shrieking Poems

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Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: shrieking, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Little Fire
I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield...

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Categories: shrieking, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Some Distant Shore
Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shrieking, flying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Toilers At the Trench
Plunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.

Attached to shovel handles were the arms...

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Categories: shrieking, history, sad,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: shrieking, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Summer Wine - An Erotic Romance
The video is intrinsic to the setting of the scene. The vocals and music track by ‘The Corrs and Bono’ are background music incidental to...

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Categories: shrieking, desire, love, lust, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Simple Whim- POTD
How I wish to scuttle alone,
over a gentle river,
from bank to bank,
in a small boat,
rowed with a bamboo pole.

The call of the wild is an...

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Categories: shrieking, cheer up, fantasy, river,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Corruption of My Lust For Life
Hibiscus rays of light
herald the sun's stretch from slumber
in a bloom of ravishing red passion- 
Oh! how I despise dawn's blushing optimism
and lust for life!
for...

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Categories: shrieking, bereavement, death, innocence, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt Ravidas
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from...

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Categories: shrieking, art, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Egg Mommy
Blue Egg Mommy

You know it’s spring when she sings.
The first to show as day greets “Hello”

Her morning song so beautiful and strong.
Soon preoccupied all day...

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Categories: shrieking, bird, earth, friend, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Time
There was a time when she lit up 
in the firmness of youth-- like a rose on an April
morn greeting daylight with a petal-soft kiss.
And...

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Categories: shrieking, age, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Robert J Lindley
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss 
Collaboration with Robert J. Lindley 

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting...

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Categories: shrieking, dark, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When doves cry
the sky scatters tear-seeds -
diamond-hard shards of stars
that jewel his dark water-tomb with crystals of light.

The clouds are floating feathers.
Now what hand will seize
this weeping...

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Categories: shrieking, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
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: shrieking, death, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recess Is Over
as the school bell rings
children are shrieking with glee

    recess is over.

          a...

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Categories: shrieking, war,
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs