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Best Torn Poems

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


Premium Member The Sowing
Upon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.

At years...

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Categories: torn, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torn, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Beautiful Mirror
-Escape of the mountain-

Do you care about my breast?
The new curve - countryside corset
The beauty of every summer dress 
Laying down, wearing out gravity 
Embracing...

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Categories: torn, absence, allusion, cancer, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Best Friend Defined
What's a best friend,
But the smell before rain?
The hand that we give,
When a friend is in pain

It's the things that we do,
The words that we...

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© Dana Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torn, friendship, hope, love, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: torn, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)

Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...

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Categories: torn, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Silent Page
Silent Heart

Sad, as it maybe, I had to break my OWN heart, 
Too many nights, I sat there all torn apart
A dream girl, 
Sitting under...

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Categories: torn, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Cuckoo
Far away in a
                land torn with war,
  ...

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Categories: torn, bird, hope, love,
Form: Shape
Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: torn, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: torn, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
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: torn, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member A Man's Tale
A man’s tale 

With mind control there he was,
A man for sale…
Hearing the vocal sound from this wordsmith, 
A man in his own tale…
Currently, he...

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Categories: torn, art, beauty, betrayal, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Waiting For a Message In a Bottle
The waves calm me down as I sit and wonder
For my love is lost in the stormy scurrilous sea
And I know my hapless heart to...

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Categories: torn, fate, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torn, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Needed Wings Today
To my Poetry Soup friends - this was written as a thank
you note for all of your beautiful, uplifting gifts of poetry 
and comments. Your...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: torn, hope, poetry,
Form: Verse

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