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Best Throttled Poems

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


Sleepless Lullaby
A spic and span barren bed,
soft pillow with blanket spread.
You're tired and bored, all hackneyed.
Ready to sleep, drop down dead.

But...a vigilant mind..alive in dread.
cacophony..chaos..thoughts unsaid.
Another...

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Categories: throttled, bereavement, break up, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Covid-19 Blues
It makes me so sad
To see people afraid
But the governor called a lockdown
And it must be obeyed

I've got the COVID-19, the pandemic Coronavirus blues
And I'm...

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© Lord Bard  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throttled, blue, health, sick,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member My Soul's Wish List
My soul and body have never been good friends
They are in enmity, constantly at logger heads
When my body aspires to have riches and fame
My soul...

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Categories: throttled, blessing, spiritual, true love,
Form: Rhyme
Elderly Driver On the Highway
Elderly Driver On The Highway

This is something to raise a laugh and  a guffaw or two…
I’m pretty sure all readers here will agree with...

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Categories: throttled, character, community, confusion, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Exams
Sleep deprivation and anxious repetition,
Doubt implantation and stress intoxication,
Coffee-painted teeth and shaking fingers to the brim --
Throttled displeasure between her and him

I don't trust myself...

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Categories: throttled, age, anxiety, education, school,
Form: Couplet



The Barghest's Monody
Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.

A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
 will serenade.
Stringent Death forthwith anoints...

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© David Hart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throttled, death, life,
Form: Ballad
Forlorn
As dawn it roosts, to the early lids of my opened eyes,
Never ever has been a happy feeling pleasant comprise.
Quinquennium back I can clearly remember,
The...

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Categories: throttled, confusion, depression, fear, happy,
Form: Rhyme
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throttled, baby, birth, fear, hate,
Form: Free verse
Royals of Emotions
Royals of Emotions   

As a confusing annoyance grew inside my head;
A silent torment stormed and throttled as I lay at night a mist my bed.

The...

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Categories: throttled, betrayal, community, corruption, courage,
Form: Ballad
Out of the Blue
Out of the blue I searched for you,
Under yellow skies I walked,
With scarlet red the things you knew!
The black lace talked and talked

I found you...

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Categories: throttled, color, fantasy, journey, magic,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Degradation
homeless man on the edge of the park
         devours his gifted pizza
crumbs stick to his dirt streaked...

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Categories: throttled, angst, dark, grief, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Urchin In Dr Radhakrishnan Road - Part One
Part One

                 Still the din dashes about in his...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throttled, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sonnet: Nothing Feeds On Itself Like Violence
Sonnet: Nothing feeds on itself like violence

Nothing feeds on itself like violence
The more it self-destructs the more its might
Goya geek – padi eaten by its...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throttled, betrayal, metaphor, philosophy, violence,
Form: Sonnet
My Sheet
Our bodies are like a bed covered by a sheet…
They come in various sizes and colours.
But the thing is that a bed is not ridiculed...

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Categories: throttled, bullying, color, confidence, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxi
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXI

IF you pull a long Moon face
Watching our Earth clad in sparse swirling white sarée
Her aqua-marine waters...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throttled, dance, earth, god, moon,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things