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Inflicting Poems - Poems about Inflicting

His Reflection
..."You are just like your father." These words ring in my head constantly, Haunting me as I stare into the mirror. I cannot bring myself to love the reflection I see— The image of the man who exc......

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Categories: inflicting, 12th grade, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interview with an Angel
... Interview with an Angel After a long surgery brewed in urgency, I lie supine with the body pining with fury With eyelids nearly closed seeking divine mercy To deliver me from ......

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Categories: inflicting, angel, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme



Chaucerian Acrostic
...Can anyone accuse you of pretence? Are you inflicting pain for pain’s own sake? So little can be said in your defence – Unless you have some argument to make, Apart from spitting venom like a sna......

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Categories: inflicting, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Solitude
...“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,” - Lord Byron ***********************************************************......

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Categories: inflicting, feelings, life, pain, solitude,
Form: Free verse
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
...The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris I led a boring life. The end. All joking aside, now the epilogue. As a bookish fellow born Januar......

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Categories: inflicting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse



Burning Sandalwood
...In a ever expanding vast , dense,dark ,wild forest, crooked ,cracked,bent trees, which provide shade ,bearing fruits venomous ,with roots rotten deep down and spreading to its offshoots. In th......

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Categories: inflicting, giving, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thrust In The Center Of The Storm
...Thrust in the center of the storm, all I could see was you; Brewing at the zenith of your strength, so hard to get through. But I dared rising up and chose to let you go, before ruining......

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Categories: inflicting, abuse,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member THE ECHO RETURNS NOT
... Silent is the echo as pride shouts selfishness causing pouts... self-conceit triumphs over jealousy bouts self-glory reigns with discontentment clouts self-relian......

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Categories: inflicting, character, christian, god, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member VOGON SOUPSTERS: Gangsters of Poetry!
...Here, at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Poetrysoup is on the menu! And to save our sacred website, perhaps the world ... We must entertain and enter vague conspicuous contests ......

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Categories: inflicting, rude, sometimes, wisdom,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Premium Member A New Years Wish for East the Beast and the West Unblessed
... Whether whiskey or water What should it matter The point is we oughta be toasting each other Though the East is a Beast and the West is unblessed … May we this year ......

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Categories: inflicting, hope, new year, peace,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Crying Mercy
... Crying Mercy Hurled down the depth of a desolate ditch By folks envious of my blazer to c......

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Categories: inflicting, faith, feelings, god, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Wrong Landlord
...On one’s ability, nothing wrong to confide needless gratification, glory hunting is wide chances of victory from a one-man army divide. Resilience that is bloated will be swallowed by the tide ......

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Categories: inflicting, pride,
Form: Rhyme
They Will Hear
...They are lights of candles put off Their screams and laughs are silenced They are deep roots pulled off Inflicting pain and tears, they are licensed They can no longer harm the living But thei......

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Categories: inflicting, christian, death, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Each Other We Damage
... There's A Reason To Be Angry ......

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Categories: inflicting, anniversary, feelings, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the warps of time
...time slips through our fingers most unapologetically ignoring our pathetic pleas cycles of sunrise followed by nightfall seem endless yet each day not resembling the next at least not always, ......

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Categories: inflicting, heartbreak, life, loss, pain,
Form: Free verse

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