Best Stare Down Poems
Below are the all-time best Stare Down poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stare down poems written by PoetrySoup members
CrushedLook past
the faded little girl braids and bows
in a polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt
curtsying ...
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Categories:
stare down, daughter, death, family, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Pass the Salt, PleaseYe are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it
be salted? It is henceforth cast out,...
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Categories:
stare down, nature
Form:
Narrative
Aboard the TitanicToday I am about to embark on a journey
that I have waited for, for so long,
they say that this one is the safest ship
were nothing...
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Categories:
stare down, boat, fear, history, journey,
Form:
Quatrain
My Monsteramong you and I and among us all
remains a feeling of shallow intoxication
that seems to play on and on and on in our respective heads
as...
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Categories:
stare down, conflict, depression, niece, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Black Flowers BloomSkies so grey
Heart so blue
Flowers of the past come to bloom
Love has kissed the stems
Pain has poisoned the blooms
The flowers are black as death itself
They...
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Categories:
stare down, blue, death, garden,
Form:
Light Verse
Walking BackThe moon savored the day...
When darkness poured away...
Chills that crawl with motivation...
Bittersweet thoughts of desperation...
I stare down a road where no color has a place...
Where...
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Categories:
stare down, introspection, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
In the DarkThe darkness hides me,
no one can see,
no one can hear my heart
and I feel safe because
of my new-found invisibility;
I’m cold, alone and unforgiven.
All...
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Categories:
stare down, absence, depression, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Trojan Heart Part 2So it was that tragedy, which lead me finally,
Have another invasion, upon my lands-never,
To guard my boundaries, and bolster my army,
Let the pain in...
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Categories:
stare down, inspirational, introspection, lost love,
Form:
I do not know?
HeatHer songs come and make love to me
each note stroked so enticingly
they twist and they twirl
engulfing her pearl
I reside deep in...
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Categories:
stare down, love,
Form:
Limerick
An Evening In With the CatIf I had a bottle of pills
I’d dump them out inside my mouth
Take the last few swigs of vodka
And swallow all of them down
If I...
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Categories:
stare down, death, depression, loss, pets,
Form:
Quatrain
The Demonic ChildI stare down the alley, upon a tree.
The Demon Child does stare at me.
I look back and He isn't there,
Leaving me frightened and unaware.
I can...
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Categories:
stare down, confusion, sad, me,
Form:
Rhyme
ForeverI am empty of tears
nor will welcome again
my wounded wonderings each night
up the staircase to my despair
drunk on the elixir of my pain
love ended
and we...
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Categories:
stare down, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Falling Into WinterThe wind is whistling through the dead flower
For now all the insects have gone to sleep
Apples on the ground are becoming sour
Jumping in soggy leaves...
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Categories:
stare down, autumn, endurance, imagery, mythology,
Form:
Sonnet
The Pondering ClownEvery day I see a pondering clown
He rests his arms on a stone platform
No one knows what he is thinking
His eyes stare down -there is...
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Categories:
stare down, cry, pain, sad, youth,
Form:
Free verse
On Her Hill Where She Stands
On a hill where she stands
As a summers breeze
Captures her scarf
In delightful please
The colours of flowers
As they dance with grace
This hill where she stands
Is her...
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Categories:
stare down, art, inspirational
Form:
Ekphrasis