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Best Tainting Poems

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


Your Latin Radere - the Etching
Beautiful, burnished, brilliant
Yet, my ink friendly inclinations produce a chemical discrepancy
And now, you come – Artist
Scratching, on my polished mental plate
Do not blacken me with...

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Categories: tainting, allegory, angst, art, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dans L'Heure Bleue Deux
(Must be read, while listening to the music link embedded in this poem, for without the music, the magic is missing).

W. E. Soundtrack- Abel Korzeniowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxO1csWNKmg



"dans...

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Categories: tainting, dance, imagery, loneliness, longing,
Form: Romanticism
Gone Too Soon
All alone in a bush downstream
Where not a soul was likely to dwell
Pinned against the green grasses, a young girl
Injecting her ruthlessly, a cruel hunk
At...

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Categories: tainting, abuse, child abuse, pain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member God Say a Prayer For Our Souls
Every single day another lost soul
                   ...

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Categories: tainting, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Re-Virginized
I don’t need
His seed inside me
Or his or him, or their
Passion doesn’t ignite
Anything else but hate

I detest clumsy hands all over my body
Tainting what was...

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Categories: tainting, forgiveness, hope, lost love,
Form: Bio



Shelley (The Birth of Science Fiction)
Shelley
(The Birth of Science Fiction)

I. 
Young Shelley at Eton imbibed the mystique
Of science romanticized into extremes:
He gave his poor tutor a shock and a shriek—
Electric...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tainting, science fictionscience,
Form: Verse
Devil In the Pullpit
Devil in the Pullpit

It's Sunday service,
and there you are!
A wolf in sheeps clothing, 
stalking your prey from afar.

your lambs are oblivious, 
they are being led...

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Categories: tainting, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: I do not know?
Cheap Sexual Me
She only came to me when she wanted wine
Meeting at a bar could do that, tainting each meeting
I always had a bottle of her favorite...

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Categories: tainting, art, break up, change,
Form: Romanticism
Slave
Lies paint your tongue with acid
Burning me up 
Bringing me down
To fall like toxic plastic
Tainting every loving feeling... dirty brown

Your eyes don't hide no secrets
They...

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Categories: tainting, sexy, slavery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Apathy and Nihilism
Written: June 22, 2023
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Poisonous toxin flowed into my veins.
transmitting a cold, apathetic nihilism.
We stumbled off the trail, you idiotic humans.
Our once-cherished pride is broken as...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tainting, analogy, angst, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Rhapsody In Autumn
Rhapsody in Autumn


Rhapsody of colors spread sunshine of rays have bled
Falling leaves stir ahead blanketing onto grounds bed

Crimson skies sighing amidst flocking birds’ south flying
Canvased...

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Categories: tainting, autumn, beautiful, color,
Form: Couplet
Hellish Days
I thought I would never again see the sun greet a new day
Now I desperately wish for eternal night.
Betrayed by Newton’s law: an unforgiving justice.
The...

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© Jose Bird  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tainting, depression, faith, health, life,
Form: I do not know?
Impacting Pollution
In the rising sun,
Coming down by the mountains,
Echoes the sirens of seas.
Teaming with all life
Were clouds of foul defilement
Shifting torrents to crimson...

Metal vessel floats,
Tainting with...

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Categories: tainting, allusion, corruption, environment, imagery,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member A Nameless Baritone
An arthritic flesh

Hesitant wipes off deteriorated lens

Every exhale,
Another tragic sulk unto morrow’s pit
Flaunting suicidal fallacies

Off-white flag motions
Signaling mercy under liar’s duress

Muted pride
Cracking dusty knuckles

Penetration’s decrepit...

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Categories: tainting, life, sad, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Souper Star
Where can I go.
Following me like the black plague,
Droppings here and there for show.
----let them lie where they fall
after all
who is the big cheese
who is...

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Categories: tainting, slam,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs