Best Shrieking Poems
Below are the all-time best Shrieking poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shrieking poems written by PoetrySoup members
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin 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 FireI 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
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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Categories:
shrieking, flying,
Form:
Quatrain
Toilers At the TrenchPlunging, 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
Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part OneDarkness 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
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
A Simple Whim- POTDHow 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
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
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt RavidasDancing 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 MommyBlue 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
Another TimeThere 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 LindleyDancing 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
When doves crythe 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
Categories:
shrieking, war,
Form:
Tanka