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Best Sinister Poems

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


Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery) 

Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely, 
Sinister...

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Categories: sinister, body, death, history, lonely,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sinister, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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Categories: sinister, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Vanilla Visions
When the 
  moon muses 
to the 
  melody of memories, 
roaming wisps 
   of vanilla gently 
flow through 
 ...

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Categories: sinister, death, deep, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feigned Flames
The moon dances 
on lonely nights,
to astral beams of
the clear quartz milky way~
I lay in an olive meadow
designed in fragrant
promises,
hidden between thorns 
and thistles disguised
as...

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Categories: sinister, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Diamond Cut
"A Broken Demo"

In a desperate cry for help
She hires every jeweler
A cheap sheep crying, Wolf!
Using old repeating politic
utilizing lies * manipulation 
To cover the Glass...

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Categories: sinister, abuse, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One
Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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Categories: sinister, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: sinister, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sinister, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing With the Devil
Lost between the borders of heaven and hell,
confusion led to this story, one must tell.
Surrounded by a world full of violence,
I closed my eyes and...

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Categories: sinister, angst, introspection, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Thing Called Love - POTD - With Winged Warrior
POTD 19 September 2017

Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as...

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Categories: sinister, love, mystery, romance, woman,
Form: Rhyme
The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: sinister, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Art of Forgiveness
To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune 
to your illusive m a n t r a...

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Categories: sinister, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleep Paralysis
“Sleep paralysis is like a waking nightmare, except you can’t escape it.” – Unknown



Tonight, when the 
jilted bells toll, 
my decayed 
soul sighs,
I lay paralyzed...

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Categories: sinister, dark, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Behind His Knowing Eyes
While in the moonlit night he stood, his crew below asleep,
the captain gazed with knowing eyes upon the ocean deep.

A sinister tranquility was fleeing in...

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Categories: sinister, death,
Form: Rhyme

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