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Purgatory Poems - Poems about Purgatory

Purgatory Poems - Examples of all types of poems about purgatory to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for purgatory.
Premium Member Purgatory
...I felt my last heartbeat Took my last breath Then the scream came My soul no longer belonged to me Wearing her black robes She lowered herself from her horse The Banshee came to collect me She......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Harvest Time
...In autumn, I came upon a garden of errant souls And saw several souls sequestered there. Some were well-known and some were fools, But others were only tarrying there. Though the sanguine souls w......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, forgiveness, growth, heaven, recovery
Form: Elegy
Premium Member There are no Tomorrows
...A simple musing about a broken heart There are no tomorrows when the day is long and filled with sadness there is only the slow counting of tears that fall never ending onto the wet palms of ......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost
...Inspiring as it is To be around the alive, The whole thing does feel Just a little contrived I think rather be dead instead Found by a wife, Asleep In a bed ......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, dark, funeral, gothic, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humility
... Humbleness (Free Verse) Humble is a man who prefers To take fresh air in his garden Than waste his time in a pub, To be dressed in simple clothing Than in expensive high class dresses Tha......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Divine Tragedy
... In my limbo betwixt death and rebirth on eternal errand I'm not alone - a journey through circles of Hell on earth in the inferno that leads to the throne. A last pilgrimage in Purgator......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, imagery, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Melancholic Bound
...Fragile fragments lachrymose, sanctified sapphire rivulets, lamentable malevolence of my fetters, is there a sanctuary from this tableau to which I am shackled as you cascade down the window pane? E......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, dark,
Form: Free verse
If There is a -ph reason, what would you be, there, rather than, here?
... I, eye, with my little spy, the colors of the abacus. The woolen pattern and bobbling often for a poncho, a season They were giggling throughout my first semester Got a little bit dim in the n......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
A place I've grown to hate
...I wade through stagnant waters Unable to change my state. Forwards and backwards both lead to here, A place ive grown to hate. In the labrinth of days that blur to gray I wander, lost, with no......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, change, depression, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Backwards Spells of FEAR Part II
...handing me over through the next door waiting for my fight to give in injections to soothe it all away demons flowing through my veins changing my DNA from careless want to endorphin need ......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, fear, flying, inspiration, mirror,
Form: Free verse
the bard'z fuddled garble
.... bizarre I say twixt mine mane mine digits twisting she peeks mine look hern eyne ......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, analogy, beauty, character, conflict,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Port of Spain
... Manifestations of your Gauzy Fantasies Unravelling Bonds of Tangled, Mangled Destinies Sun of Man Set His Right Eye on Me Tenaciously Searing, Calculating To Entrap Me, A Prisoner to His Needs ......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member House by The Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper 1301
..."Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Though I may influence genius, t......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, horror,
Form: Ekphrasis
I don't need you
...I don’t need you I don’t need you, I don’t need you I don’t need a woman in my life I don’t want to give you my bad life Never. Never. I want to save you. Save your life. I respect your life. ......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member limbo
... why … why do we careless creatures hold on so tightly? tears are not poisonous they will not etch our face with the afflictions they carry but they WILL assuage its acidity - why not let t......Read the rest...
Categories: purgatory, analogy, loneliness, loss, love,
Form: Free verse

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