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Best Torment Poems

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Premium Member To Be With You -
I love you,
that's not hard for me to say,
its not a prediction, or a reflection, it just is
a motion in my heart's ocean,
an ocean named...

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Categories: torment, desire,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: torment, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torment, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: torment, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torment, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torment, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torment, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: torment, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spring Petals Kissing Dawns Air - a Collaboration With Charmaine Chircop
When miserable clouds assemble,
bursting with drops of sorrow,
gusts of torment bring dark tides to your door.
You feel hope is like forgotten pennies,
lost at the bottom...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torment, angst, emotions, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arms of starry Skies
My eyes cry for
fuschia glimmer on 
indigo waves again,
but all I see are 
haunting hues
of black sequin
glittered epitaphs;
reflections of hollow 
clouds enveloping cold air;
building tension...

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Categories: torment, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Bloom In Red Flame
Underneath all the layers
Of tradition
Of religion 
Of philosophy
Of reason and understanding
I smolder
In passion's pleasure bed of red
Paroxysms of pleasure
Emanate from my core
Searing the shroud
Flames of...

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Categories: torment, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: torment, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails

Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today...

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Categories: torment, appreciation, beauty, creation, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heartbroken
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran

In days of darkness,
sad stars shimmer like somber souls.
Upon...

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Categories: torment, heartbroken, pain, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunting
Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me 
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...

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Categories: torment, horror,
Form: Narrative

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