Best Tortured Poems
Below are the all-time best Tortured poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tortured poems written by PoetrySoup members
Love's ReflectionLove neither gives or takes but from itself.
Be not wiled by fantasies of arrogance.
Take no more than is offered by yourself.
Leave nothing trapped in tortured...
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Categories:
tortured, giving, love,
Form:
Sonnet
A Wordless SkyIf I don't write, I'm doomed to die
and lie beneath a wordless sky
A silent corpse, unseen, unheard
alive yet dead- is that absurd?
If rhymes don't...
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Categories:
tortured, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
SophieSophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...
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Categories:
tortured, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form:
Narrative
She Calls Me HomeShe Calls Me Home…
At days long end
Left on troubles shore
When I just know
I can't take anymore
When the last light
Of hope is gone
She calls me home
She...
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Categories:
tortured, angst, caregiving, childhood, devotion,
Form:
Couplet
The ArtistStillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed on a fine palette
and a...
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Categories:
tortured, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Broken DollWalls of silence hold,
Me prisoner,
The child held within,
Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts,
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
Deep inside.
Shedding its...
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Categories:
tortured, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form:
Free verse
The Malkavian..Part 1The Malkavian..Part 1
His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented
His family, drained...
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Categories:
tortured, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Cherokee TearsCherokee Tears
ceremonial drums' rhythmic heartbeat
impassioned tribal chants
echo in Smoky Mountain mist before dawn
tortured spirit of an ignoble president
Andrew Jackson seems imprisoned here
haunted by wailing ghosts...
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Categories:
tortured, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Life is a song“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi
If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?
When instruments of fate performed
in...
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Categories:
tortured, muse, music,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
tortured, dark, fear,
Form:
Free verse
SlaveLike a herd of cattle, placed on a ship.
Upon my back, I felt their whip!
Ripping into my flesh, excruciating pain.
Forced across the big water on...
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Categories:
tortured, courage, death, slavery, perspective,
Form:
Quatrain
My HypocrisyWere I to know your depth’s degree
I’d want to dive quite fearlessly
give all the things required of me
to plunge into our destiny.
Were I to touch...
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Categories:
tortured, desire, lost love, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Blood Red MoonBlood Red Moon
Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings
Whose fangs hideously...
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Categories:
tortured, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form:
Quatrain
Multi-TaskingWearing wireless headphones as I listen to the news.
I'm outside watching children playing, taking in the views.
There is screaming in my ears two voices disagree.
A...
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Categories:
tortured, care,
Form:
Rhyme
- the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...
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Categories:
tortured, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative