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Harrowing Poems - Poems about Harrowing


A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway (route 76) both heading into (and a small number of hours later exiting) center city Philadelphia to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024. Yours truly (a doodling Yankee), and the missus went to town, NOT riding on a pony, NOR did I stick a feather in my cap, but we walked at a brisk pace unwittingly set by...

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Categories: harrowing, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Harrowing Fig
I hold on the fig upon the tree, it cannot fall too far from it if I were to pull upon it, surely it will not stay in tranquility, as I hold it in my bear hands, I know it feels what I feel I have experienced happiness in this woven of life, nourishing my joy through the sun...

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Categories: harrowing, 10th grade, anxiety, black
Form: Bio



Premium Member I That Expose Heaving Breast To Harrowing Night
I That Expose Heaving Breast To Harrowing Night (BORN FROM NIGHT BATTLES IN YOUTH FIERCELY FOUGHT) I that expose heaving breast to harrowing night Daring to curse fate, defying its awesome might Live in this world as an old and cold lonesome stone After midnight face those horrendous beastly moans Do so despite broken sword and battered shield Fight in dark...

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Categories: harrowing, conflict, faith, fate, hope,
Form: Rhyme
A Harrowing Grief
Hills speak of a weathering, each lays bare an allegory of bereavement. Grief has its own inward milling. What once was the high pulse of rapture is now the nag of a heartbeat sheathed like a stone in a shoe. When you try to name the hurt, objectify its presence, it turns into a dog, a child, a perfect stranger, a place lost or...

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Categories: harrowing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Harrowing Experience Was To Me
Harrowing Experience Was To Me Had thought for a while; Harrowing experience, Really was to me. About politics; All of the idiots there; None a friend of mine. Jim Horn...

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Categories: harrowing, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Harrowing Goodbye
Sighs and tears escaped From an enamored couple When both realized Love had withered forever Lacking of fertilizers 6-10-2016...

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Categories: harrowing, lost love,
Form: Tanka
The Harrowing World
the darkest hour in the pale bubble of the moon cool midnight, lonely solvent for tomorrow raking stars like marbled glitter shade and shadow merge as one all asleep, earth and hearth my heart beats deep in mantle's drum nightbirds chased by whispered death silent fled and silent gone slumbered in diurnal rhythm a house...

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Categories: harrowing, car, culture, growing up,
Form: Classicism
The Harrowing Ballot
They built an abattoir for man In the heart of the land ...

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Categories: harrowing, angst,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry