Merciless Poems | Examples

Petulant Midday Sun

The petulant midday sun
Raging, blazing, vindictive orbit at its zenith 
It's blinding glare, a white hot disc
Scorching and oppressive 
Over the earth and living ones 
A merciless sentinel in the cerulean sky 
Wrapping us in its stifling embrace
A shimmering mirage dancing in the air.

No one can amuse these merciless men

They dwell in a far off dry wood,
Browse but on hardy grass no good,
Drink left o’er water in restraint, 
Even then, poor deer do get slain.
Who can amuse men of mean mood?      
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Translation |19.10.2024|men, deer, please

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. Here it says: ever scared of men, deer dwell far off in the forest, browse on hardy grass, and drink water left over for them.  Even then they are hunted down by men. Who can please, placate these ruthless men? The transliteration of the Sanskrit verse follows:

Vasanti aranyeshu, charanti doorvaah, 
pibanti toyaan a-parigrahaani |
Tathaa api vadhyaa harinaa naraanaam, 
kah lokam aaraadhayitum samarthah ||

Merciless Beast

Human without humanity is a merciless beast
It doesn't matter how educated he is
Human without humanity is a merciless beast
It doesn't matter how many degrees he has
Human without humanity is a merciless beast
It doesn't matter how good looking he is
Human without humanity is a merciless beast
It doesn't matter how rich he is
Human without humanity is a merciless beast
It doesn't matter who he is
Human without humanity is a merciless beast.
Ibad kis kaam ki taleem aur parhai
Agar zindagi kisi kay kaam na ie.

Merciless Car Cloud

And away
Serene looking sky
Seems to be holding the earth and comforting 

Come up with any magic trick
The invisibility is locked
Where the earth would be lonely again
Without locking the doors of the eyes
I'm looking at that in the tumor mirror 

Many nights
Revolving around his eyes
However, his eyes are looking hopefully towards the sky 
Hungry survivors sit on the farm

This Merciless Heat

This merciless heat
smothers the earth
with air-less wings
It creeps in by degrees
stifling life's breeze
gives Nature short shrift
until it lifts

The New Moon

The Moon and the night companion,
March for the same journey
The journey of sky,
The Moon fills her solitude with the promises
Promises of lifetime togetherness and love,
and the night flaunts on his promises with the air’s verse,
Unblemished each other
The moon is languid without her,
And night is sombre without him
How moron are both of them
Don’t realise that their fate holds the new moon
See God has become a schemer,
Then how his creation the human could remain untouched by his flair,
Yes, the new moon will be repeated
Whenever two lovers will swear up of life time togetherness and love,
And then a group of God’s intellectual creation will put two lovers into the dark of loneliness…

The Merciless Wolf

There once was a wolf, who craved for food,

It had evil intentions, and never thought good.

One day it noticed six fluffy goats,

Took one of them and grabbed it by the throat.

Then went for the second and scorched it in a blaze,

And on the third goat it had set its gaze.

It ripped the third into pieces apart,

And ate the liver and chewed the heart.

Then took the fourth and dangled it high,

It shouted for help but no one heard its cry.

And soaked the fifth into water so chilling,

The poor little goat had died a death so thrilling.

The wolf grabbed the sixth and threw it down a pit,

Then smiled the merciless wolf, who hesitated not even a bit.

Merciless Beauty

Unbelievable
What I see vice grips  my soul
A heatwave rises
And I find myself asking
How can you be? Will you be?

Merciless Slaugthering

Rhinoceros and elephants
are hunted for their horns...
there are very few extant:
profit has a malicious intent!

Predators are to blame for the merciless
slaughtering...they attack these harmless,
huge animals grazing on the vast plains
of Africa: hear their cry in the wilderness! 

For every animal they kill...
there should be a stiff penalty,
a punitive incarceration until
they realize their cruelty!

It's unlikely that this trade stops,
there'll be more mad hunters
who will terrify these creatures...
while they roam on dry pastures!

Merciless Time

Listen I tell you
As time goes by,
The songbirds tune
Becomes a melancholy cry.

Watch as the skin
Becomes wrinkled and worn,
For the fabric of time
Can never be torn.

Feel the memories
Fade away,
The sunny blue skies 
Become a cloudy grey.

Time, precious time,
Is all that I need,
Oh time, why must you fly
At such a speed?

A Merciless Life

A Merciless Life	By Robert Denton (June 2015)

I have walked a merciless life.
Bombed and battered with precision.
From my childhood to middle age strife.
To have free will is not my decision.

Bombed and battered with precision.
But death is still death regardless of technology.
To have free will is not my decision.
In this reckless war fought with psychology.

But death is still death regardless of technology.
Our planet is in a state of de-evolution.
In this reckless war fought with psychology.
Corporate advertisement is this worlds pollution.

Our planet is in a state of de-evolution.
With the hadron collider and travel through space.
Corporate advertisement is this worlds pollution.
Planned depopulation, just to save face.

Bombed and battered with precision
From my childhood to middle age strife.
To have free will is not my decision.
I have walked a merciless life.

Merciless Thieves

The tiles upon the floor
are creaking like the door.
We're doomed to the thieving,
their wicked hearts beating
for money, we have no more.

Our windows freely swing,
letting in horrible stink,
we live by pure luck,
but mostly it sucks;
items are stolen in a blink.

The neighbor's hounds are dopes.
they allow the thieves to roam.
Burglars invade,
thieves come to stay,
My, I think I am broke!

Merciless

Sometimes I forget that I’m holding my breath,

                  the reason why;

until I begin to suffocate.

My chest begins to burn, 

my vision un-tethered to

the spectrum slung toward it. 

All I can see is a silhouette.

It looks like you walking through the door;

holding everything you took with you that

night when you said you had to go,

but would never forget the beat of my heart.

You’re holding it in your hands.

It’s writhing, and fighting to get loose;

but your nails dig in until blood spatters

its way out of my mouth.

"I’m back." you say.

And I gasp, taking in the violent rush

of air, that I had forgotten was there.

…now, unbridled and erratic,

unable to cope with your form. 

I never thought I’d see you again. 

But there you are.

Standing in the doorway. 

Ready to finish it.

-James Kelley 2014, All rights reserved.

Merciless Hunger

Merciless hunger, 
How many lives of innocent children*  
Have you to slaughter   
For
The insatiable appetite of the voracious vultures of
Greed to appease? 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
     06 MARCH 2014


* According to the 2013, World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics, more
than five million children die every year because of poor nutrition.
To that we must add the death of millions of adults who succumb to hunger 
around the world! 

INVITATION: In the name of humanity, let us ask ourselves if there is something we could do to help, each one in his own way and according to his means!

The Merciless Monster

Depart! you monsterous 
Creature,mercilessly 
Devouring your victims.
Scanning your preying 
Eyes in nook and cranny, 
Searching and devising 
havoc on souls...taking 
Every chance,never 
wavering,ruining lives 
And deaths by your foul 
Deeds.
"Oh! I have lost my 
Investment,""my wasted 
Efforts."These are some 
Of the victims of your 
Sinister devises.
Nation's economies have 
Crumbled under your 
Influence.
Many are 
homeless,others Feed 
through their nose.
You eat deeper than 
Canker worms.
Your beguilr smiles is like 
The Trojan horse
Ifnothing is done,you 
Have the pecuniary 
Advantage to your selfish 
Satisfaction.

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