Best Torment Poems
Below are the all-time best Torment poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of torment poems written by PoetrySoup members
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
Past-Life NightmareA 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
Old ManSilently 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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Categories:
torment, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and TeppoWaking 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
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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Categories:
torment, assonance, death, loss,
Form:
Alliteration
Soothing TomorrowsOh 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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Categories:
torment, emotions, love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
torment, emotions, how i feel,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Gnarled ShadowsThrough 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
Spring Petals Kissing Dawns Air - a Collaboration With Charmaine ChircopWhen 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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Categories:
torment, angst, emotions, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Arms of starry SkiesMy 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
To Bloom In Red FlameUnderneath 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
Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part OneDarkness 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
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted TrailsSoul 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
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
The HauntingCold, 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