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Best Stench Poems

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


Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: stench, brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: stench, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Joy Killing Poet
**Back smile/smile Back **

With your heads way up your :]ssa[: 
You will never accomplish the win
I got shots that will protect me from your rabid...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stench, adventure, deep, hate, irony,
Form: Epic
Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: stench, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Toilers At the Trench
Plunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.

Attached to shovel handles were the arms...

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Categories: stench, history, sad,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Rest Is Silence
I left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...

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Categories: stench, history, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Princess of the Petals
Beyond her veil;

eyes induced by secretive stars
became drawn to a path illuminated by 
flickering, shimmering pale moonlight.
Each spirited step led to the 
revelation of her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stench, analogy, deep, silence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Lullabyto the Lost
Life and cigarettes burn to fast.
We waste are time.
So within the moment you bask.

A pretty face has to age.
Every story meets  it's final page.
When...

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Categories: stench, angst, life, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desert Dreaming
A violent scene lay before me
Huddled in death, there’s Ella, Mary-belle, everywhere I could see
Swollen tongues, sunken eyes, frail bodies strewn in the hot powdery...

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Categories: stench, anxiety, nature, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When a Poet's Promise Dies
I tried to create a poetic dream,
to fulfill our promise,
but we became a victim 
to fate's wounding ways.

My flower garden lies in ruins,
suffering in silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stench, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Digger's Children
I paced between the old and new
along the rows where gray stones grow,
so careful not to tread upon
the freshly filled and seeded few.
Soft shadows slid...

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Categories: stench, life, war,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Hour
Into my dreary days
Rode hope on scented lines
In this pool of darkest deep
So bleak.. only love could find
A world of suffocating stench
Pulls me closer to...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stench, dark, deep, depression, dream,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Falling From the Heights
FALLING FROM THE HEIGHTS

Who knew the road would fill with gravel’s pain?
My feet, sore bare, beneath the calloused peat.
The sun beat hard, no friend the...

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Categories: stench, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Tale of Billy the Kid
William Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick

“Quien esta?”

Bang!  It’s over, 
you’re a legend now, 
Billy.

Born in Hell’s Kitchen...

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Categories: stench, character, death,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Shipwrecked Heart
I always hated water,
being in the middle of nowhere,
but it was the only way to be with you..

Now,
I'm helpless, my fingers trembling,
lips quivering, eyes full...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stench, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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