Cruelty Poems - Poems about Cruelty

Wilderness Moonlight stretches into the clearing, intangible ...but offering comfort. She is dying now, pining to be rescued, her breathing jagged, her endurance spent; the bullet had lanced her stomach therefore prolonging agony. Behind her lies a zick-zacked trail of red, splattered death, her own. She had been born a lone wolf but now seeks release in moonlight's arms. A terminal breath, a final...

Continue reading...

In a town where the whispers grew sharp as a blade.. Where anger took root in the words people made. A boy flung a stone made of slander and spite.. And a girl threw it back in the dead of the night. The streets became stages for venomous cries.. With truth dressed in shadows and kindness in lies. Each rumor, a...

Continue reading...

...

Continue reading...

hate, ...

Continue reading...

Your words have power They’re not just sounds they’re spells You can cast them with malice Or cast them wishing well The consequences of hate evident in one’s words Is to mentally mutilate To belittle to disturb The ill will starts in the mind Or perhaps a heart dark and blind It affects perception, well being or health When you are hateful to someone else...

Continue reading...

I thought for so long you were my good friend, trusted you with a faithful mind without any doubt, but in the difficult times I didn’t find you by my side, saw instead the mask you wore fall discarded in debris. Your senses became the fast spreading wild fire of hatred, uncontrolled, it smoldered the motif of your intrinsic...

Continue reading...

A person at times can feel like they are a casualty of cruelty, at least in some small way or other. Some attacked my early writing. Their scathing reviews I can’t forget, yet I persisted doing what I do. Not letting oneself feel defeated is the only way to continue - but your cruelty, my love, hurt worse. You did not want to read...

Continue reading...

The radiant shine leaves your aurora dimming ever so quickly, as in northern regions you are—borealis falling into the southernmost Sahara negative gradients descend—australis The gloss of moral sanction The glitter of a social butterfly The prism of a love sonnet I thought it would never end False is an outward appearance Black smoke puffed ...

Continue reading...

Unmet expectations damage the dormant psyche, unkept promises smother the rays of fading hope, unkind words tear the lattice of the mangled mind. My life turns into an urn filled with your ill feeling. Your senses become the fast spreading wild fire, uncontrolled, it boils the blood of intrinsic pride, and as it flares up, it burns...

Continue reading...

Casualty of your cruelty and lack of empathy Is the beginning of your karma journey What you tossed into the universe Comes back full force as blessing or curse Walking in another's shoes Feeling for them as you do for you Empathy a symphony of humanity Put an end to selfish silver vanity Casualty of your cruelty just may be Loved ones you have...

Continue reading...

For Sara Jama's contest - Casualty of your Cruelty - Inspired by the painting Oil and Gravel on Canvas by Sadamasa Motonaga what is composure perhaps just containment and presentation - an angle you look your best from I'm floating within and outside of this body explosions, implosions, drift, smash, lull, steady... breath goes in and...

Continue reading...

Written: April 28, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama ******************* When cruelty becomes a badge of honor empathy transforms into an act of defiance while the evildoers are celebrated! The resonance of your words Your words echo as a...

Continue reading...

L o v e ~ a crippled nightingale b u r n i n g in bronze tears of tornadoes, limping and writhing, screaming for release, but what if I am the mistress of glass-cut dreams, crowned with razor-edged regrets, and splintered serenity? Would the raven breeze ...

Continue reading...

the harvest a cruel person reaps from all the seeds they sow all yield weeds and thorns of guilt and revenge, growing in a secret garden behind walls, doors, shutters, gates enclosed by self in iron and stone. ...

Continue reading...

MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Urdu poems about life, death, Love, longing, hearts, being captive, strength, cruelty, temper, the sun, darkness, shadows and faith. I’m the captive of Love, the Huntress, otherwise I’d have strength to flee. —Mirza Ghalib, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Your sidelong glances? Arousing. Your cruelty? Demoralizing. —Mirza Ghalib, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Her temper’s an...

Continue reading...