Best Slights Poems
Below are the all-time best Slights poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slights poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Shudder To ThinkI SHUDDER TO THINK
I shudder to think about the way
Some vegetables are abused every day -
With physical and...
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Categories:
slights, funny
Form:
Couplet
Ungrateful Children a Parent's LamentUNGRATEFUL CHILDREN A parent's lament
Children
with Wings
and Talons
Pounce on the fleetest of hearts
their
Memories
Soar ...
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Categories:
slights, childhood, father, children, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Discord and PeaceWhen conflicts raise its ugly head real soon,
our nations won’t inevitably swoon;
a time that real détente and peace attune.
Some people still record the slights...
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Categories:
slights, analogy, anger, angst, children,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Rambling PoetryPoetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh...
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Categories:
slights, poetry, writing,
Form:
Prose
Golden Secrets In the Flower"...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text...
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Categories:
slights, angst, introspection, world, flower,
Form:
Didactic
Murdered LoveMy love for you is a creature, a solid breathing
Entity, a mangled creation of shadow-black flesh
And the thread-like interwoven muscles of my
Bleeding...
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Categories:
slights, death, devotion, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect...
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Categories:
slights, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Loving, Living Beyond Past Hurts
So easy to recall all the slights,
The times you might have been treated like dirt.
But far more glorious to look up at the sun.
Remembering all...
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Categories:
slights, courage, encouraging, love, poetry,
Form:
Ode
Categories:
slights, bird,
Form:
Alliteration
Aching For ReleaseWritten: June 23, 2023
______________________________________________________________
Bonds packed with zeros—harmony, grief, regrets,
In this endless cycle, memory no longer begets.
Your poetry is a symphony that stirs my soul.
But also...
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Categories:
slights, allegory, analogy, freedom, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Do the Dead See With Their Own EyesDo the Dead see with their own eyes
for Thadchayani, my poetry-loving doctor sister : 28/08/1929 – 26/10/2014
...
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Categories:
slights, bereavement, brother, death, sister,
Form:
Elegy
ContradictionsShe's awash in contradictions.
Though you just might fall in love
with those big doe eyes.
She'll put you on a pedestal.
To her, you...
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Categories:
slights, endurance, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
An Oracle '' a Cautionary Tale''An Oracle, ‘’ a cautionary tale’’
The man was called upon to help he went, heart full of love, not his own
but (put there) questions...
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Categories:
slights, brother, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Travel LightThrough winding roads, life leads where it ………………………………………… Will
Reaching rugged mountain peaks and valleys deep, until ...
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Categories:
slights, hope, life,
Form:
Acrostic
The Fight and How It FeltShe threw me the hurtful look, that bleeding-inside feeling
Fell upon me and the whip lashed well
Across those deep soft parts
That quiver within and dare not...
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Categories:
slights, life, love, wife, pain,
Form:
Free verse