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Best Smog Poems

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


Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: smog, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme



I Belong To the Lake
 I wander far from the coal-tar smog
and buzzing sounds of the city
to a place where I can smell
fresh-cut hay in a tepid breeze.
I stroll...

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Categories: smog, beautiful, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: smog, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Weaver
T’was flair from the cobbles that drove the loom
with forced hardy sweat they laboured till eve
a family tradition from the womb
with threaded shuttle and reed...

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Categories: smog, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
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: smog, death, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: smog, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Scars Left Behind
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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Categories: smog, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Such Does Exist
I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I...

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Categories: smog, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Pronouncing the Dead
How can you look someone in the eyes and tell them it's the end?
How can you possibly do that without shedding tears?
Or even blinking?
Do you...

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Categories: smog, dark, death, deep, fear,
Form: Free verse
Life With Depression
Life with Depression

Life can be confusing
Sometimes good, never amusing
it can turn you upside down
but never let it keep you down

Sometimes life is but a test
as...

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© James Lutz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smog, depression, happy, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Crooked House
We lived in a crooked house.
Built on a muddy mound of hope with the corpse of yesterday half buried beneath
Sad eyes and smiley faces. A...

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© Zed Zed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smog, childhood, home, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Angels
~ANGELS~


Within the abusive abyssal air, I greet you with a prayer
Within weathered winded wear, I defend in your despair
Thru calamitous city crumble I find you...

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Categories: smog, angel, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
I Hear Voices
I hear voices
high in the trees,
trilling from the shrubs
and on the breeze.
I hear voices
high in the sky,
that grow and fade
and finally die.

A non-conducted chorus,
yet oh...

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Categories: smog, nature,
Form: Prose
Riding Away To Color
I’ll ride away from city life,
from the dingy brown of smog
and the mixing in of gray
with the white of tule fog.
Escaping black of pavement,
to New...

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Categories: smog, adventure, horse, nature, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forlorn Hope
The Face of Hope

The face of hope never masquerades in forlorn visages
Towering above spiraling pits in the dark midnight of essence
Breaks disingenuous chains of nightmare’s...

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Categories: smog, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs