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 SommeOver 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
Woman In ChainsArousing 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
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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Categories:
stench, adventure, deep, hate, irony,
Form:
Epic
He Touched MeDo 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
Toilers At the TrenchPlunging, 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
The Rest Is SilenceI 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
Princess of the PetalsBeyond 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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Categories:
stench, analogy, deep, silence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Lullabyto the LostLife 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
Desert DreamingA 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
When a Poet's Promise DiesI 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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Categories:
stench, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The Digger's ChildrenI 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 HourInto 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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Categories:
stench, dark, deep, depression, dream,
Form:
Lyric
Falling From the HeightsFALLING 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
A Tale of Billy the KidWilliam 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
Shipwrecked HeartI 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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Categories:
stench, lost love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue