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Best Writhe Poems

Below are the all-time best Writhe poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of writhe 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: writhe, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Heart and Soul Cry Justice
Love Justice made me wrest you from her bed
It’s right for you to lie with me instead
For you were mine before she came to be
A...

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Categories: writhe, pain, passion, sensual,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Erogenously Yours
The room is scented, heavy sweet
Where we converge to please and treat
A lesson book we each have shared
On where to touch when we lie bare

Erogenous...

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Categories: writhe, sensual, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Malimar
Inhaling, hushed, from hashed cigars
    my mind implodes in Malimar
        where Naiads bathe in caviar...

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Categories: writhe, fantasy,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Westward Movement
The ground is damp
it bleeds through my thin cotton skirt.
Crest born, I sit and wait the dawn.
My fingers weave into the high rye grass.
The house...

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Categories: writhe, devotion, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: writhe, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Categories: writhe, friendship, god, heartbreak, lost
Form: Shape
Premium Member From the Padded Cell
in this your padded cell of silence
you torture me
in your straight jacket of neglect
I writhe
tormented
tried

from the observation window
you look in
cold hearted
indifferent
you take notes
of my descent
from...

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Categories: writhe, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love At James Bond Beach
Making Love In Jamaica At The Iconic James Bond Beach

It is a sun splashed day; 
the air is silent with the sound of waves 
the ocean is...

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Categories: writhe, beauty, love, ocean, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Dreams Are Made Of
A simple scene a nestling seeks the comfort of the night
to lay enthralled, engrossed,  in memories of past days,
the nectar drawn from rivulets that...

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Categories: writhe, fear, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Warning Sorry a Bit Sexual
It is a sun splashed day; the air is silent with the sound of waves 
from an ocean moving to the rhythm of crying gulls....

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Categories: writhe, blue, fire, memory, sensual,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lost In the Cold
When pebbles knead the holes in my shoes
These torn eyes writhe from  my orphan blues,
A lost soul quivering in the cold...
I feel alone, a...

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Categories: writhe, absence, child, home,
Form: Couplet
Hurricanes
All you do 
All you say
All you write
In the jasmine garden
Is a frenzied drum
Bludgeoning me to dumb

Intensely numb
I feel
As I reel

Yes
As you come
Rising on tides
Passion...

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Categories: writhe, anger, angst, hope, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Drowning In Self
Sinking in a sea of Me
I gurgle, choke and bubble
down I go into my depths
into a world of trouble

Immersed in self, I cannot breathe
I'm suffocated...

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Categories: writhe, anxiety, depression, how i
Form: Rhyme
I Am Fire
"I Am Fire"


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Categories: writhe, fire, imagery,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs