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Best Spite Poems

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


Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: spite, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse



So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: spite, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sometimes We Don'T Get a Chance To Say Goodbye
sometimes
we don't get a chance
to say goodbye

you sit there
tears in your eyes
wondering why

and

it don't make sense
to be strong
because it stings

you can't explain
the pain each
memory brings

and

the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spite, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Reverse Rant
"Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!

What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not...

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Categories: spite, humor, irony, poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Life, To Me
Colors daubed for seasons' scenes
          I sift through life for what it means
   ...

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Categories: spite, appreciation, friendship, life, love,
Form: Quatrain



Streets of Blood
Streets of blood

She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow

With swine and pearls running...

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Categories: spite, hate, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTD
POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...

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Categories: spite, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Return
A charlatan returns despite his earlier defeat.
After two years gone, he claims he owns a seat
But there is no throne for the jester who bears
His...

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Categories: spite, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ashen Snow
An innocence we used to know
As morning dourly turns to night
Entombed beneath an ashen snow 

A cell phone yearning for hello
With hopes of answer growing...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spite, sad, september,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Tempest In Your Heart
O daughter of thunder, slayer of dragons (and of men's hearts), why do you hurt me so? For which sin must I reside in this...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spite, angst, missing you,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member And Nothing Else Matters-In An Upside Down World
Perhaps in a row they sit on their chair.
At their small object they all like to stare.
In an upside down world, the room’s silence grows.
They...

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Categories: spite, humorous, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unrequited Love
Wandering my maze of memories
In search of yesteryear
The spark she struck within my heart
Still burns in spite of tears
Hand in hand we walked the halls
Young...

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Categories: spite, first love, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Kiss Or That Darn Ann Landers
Son of a gun we were still young;
only 15 years gone by.
You were the first my kissing bubble to burst, 
and for you, I think...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spite, me, nostalgia, song, travel,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman,
     she looks beyond the surface of
        ...

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Categories: spite, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Memories of Youth and Nature, Were a True Blast, In Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Memories Of Youth And Nature, Were A True Blast
In collaboration with Robert Lindley

Beautiful dawn a Nature walk would do one good
Across the flower filled pond,...

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Categories: spite, creation, dedication, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

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