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Best Slaved Poems

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


Slaved Love of Anarkali
Her name was Anarkali, 
an eloquent carnival of legendary beauty.
a dancer in the court of Emperor Akbar.
Deep russet rouge blushed her red,
a silky smile on...

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Categories: slaved, dance, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Heaven and Earth Wept
In camps, they’d slaved and starved; cold nights, they’d slept -

Each woman, man, and little girl and boy.

Relentless horror had around them crept.

In camps, they’d...

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Categories: slaved, angel, war,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Life's Stories
His eyes are dark, but, there's still a spark. 
There are canyons in his face.
His lungs are gone and it won't be long,
'Till his heart...

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Categories: slaved, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonlight Shadow
Moonlight Shadow


Broken dreams
On purple flamed wings

Celtic rumors
Burning bright

Crosses and crescents
Knights and swords

In the mist of a weary mystical night
I saw her lying there, chest broken...

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Categories: slaved, angel, beauty, destiny, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes
Sometimes, when I look in the mirror
I see my brother’s face,
I quiver with recognition.
As time takes me,
so it takes my eyes, I reason,
a trick of...

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Categories: slaved, analogy, humanity, identity,
Form: Didactic



Tears Do Fall
Tears do Fall

...a sad sonnet...

My tears do fall as they cowardly crawl
To rivers of disbelief with banks of grief
My heart a slaving stall building the...

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Categories: slaved, first love, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Mastered Puppets
Mastered Puppets


Of the voices thrown and never shown their cries travel well
A starving sewn with a bitter bone of their life a quiet quell
With larval...

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Categories: slaved, children, humanity, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Strangers In Love Again
TWO STRANGERS IN LOVE AGAIN

Two strangers learned to fall in love again
Amidst long distance tumultuous air
It buds, blooming regardless distant strains

Healing hearts that before been...

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Categories: slaved, love, relationship, sweet,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member It's An Amazon Out There
The travel agent said adventure was calling,
In a lush paradise of beauties enthralling!

No harm would befall us, with a capable guide;
This Amazon tour would be...

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Categories: slaved, adventure, bird, fantasy, green,
Form: Couplet
My Pendulous Heart
Within the subtle soundless silence
There exist echoes of a lingering loud
My pendulous heart decrees in defiance
Such emotions plundered and ploughed

Like a geocentric giant guillotine
My lamenting...

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Categories: slaved, deep, lost love, pain,
Form: Sonnet
American Psychosis
“american psychosis”

 

on the road, 
the dream 
begins..... 
the sun is burning 
a fever in the sky 
upon the endless serpent 
a serial killers life...

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Categories: slaved, addiction, america, travel,
Form: Free verse
Adages
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
But man is slaved to fate,
No fun or spontaneity
Unless you speculate

You can’t keep a good...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slaved, funny, life,
Form: Verse
Her Only Desire
Let me go on collecting the jewels of joy to adorn your soul
Let me tirelessly take out the paste out of sandalwood to heal the...

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Categories: slaved, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clock
Life's clock never ceases to tick at all, 
God meanwhile is with you and me and walks with us all the way, 
We don't know...

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Categories: slaved, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
My Life In Different Tongues
Ancestors had fore-planned 
My whole being in Spanish
Yet, my concerned parents wrote 
My rhesus A-plus blood in Tagalog

I was born, they said 
To enjoy my...

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Categories: slaved, childhood, life, love, people,
Form: Bio

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