Short Cruel Poems

Short Cruel Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cruel by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cruel by length and keyword.


INHUMANITY


        


     we have food for 12 billion
      we only feed 8 billion...
 it's not capitalism, it's pure cruelty
Form: Epigram


Premium Member Wishing Well

Do you love me? I can't tell
Threw me in a wishing well
"Wish you'd pull me out" I said
"Sure, I'll do that, when you're dead."
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Cruel People

Stricken by grief heart

Flooded by myriads tears

Cruel men rejoice!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
         25 May 2018
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Upon My Two Knees

Gosh-o-Roonies, said the Moonies,
Drag you out into the boonies
Watch you be cut up by loonies
Feed you to the starving goonies.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member How Cruel of You to Laugh

How cruel of you to laugh. 
You must be a psychopath,
completely daft and nuts,
as I'm oozing bloody guts,
a jelly donut, cut in half.


First Love, First Loss

I was fine alone
Then you showed me I was wrong
Love is amazing 

You said you loved me
Then cruel, left abruptly
I know what pain is
© Mug Bug  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member She'd Love To Fire Her Boss

bitter words fester
through the stench of his glare
and the ugliness of his heart
she maintains her poker face



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Cruel

Cruel

You call life cruel
What do you expect of it?
The thrills of it is taunting
That's what makes it cruel.

By Isaiah Akantere Asangalisah

Premium Member Who's being ugly?

Mean girls in school yard.
Tag teaming to bully the ugly duckling.
Time will be best revenge.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

What This Cruel World Is About

When victims of world 
           Injustice system 
Speak the truths about it , 
Beneficiaries of the system 
Always laugh at them. 

August 25/2023

Premium Member The cancer grows

Spreading ugly lies and gossip
You made a career of ruining lives
Many only happy to conspire



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Cruel World

Tainted souls and Twisted minds
Unfair world.
Vicious trolls win the polls
Withering honor that once stood strong
Yet Hope persists to right the wrong.
© Linga Siva  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Cold and Deliberate

Knife straight through the heart
She twists it just a little more
Making sure the point's made



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Blew it

Bullet straight to the heart
Hurtful words harsh and not easily forgotten
No redos to earn trust



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Cruel and Usual Punishment

A tired Liar rests uneasily
Upon Pillows of the Past
His heavy head, it sleeps in Dread-
Always dreams of Truth, alas!

*"Usual" is intentional in the title ;)

Premium Member A Candle Ever Flickers In the Night

A candle ever flickers in the night,
However far, however faint it be;
In cruelest darkness shall it burn most bright,
Until the sun shall come to set us free.
Form: Rhyme

Sticks and Stones Slam Mean Girls Cruel Boys

Stick's and Stones 
May break my Bone's 

But I wonder if you will ever know ?
Or how it feels ?

That your Cruel Words and Taunts 

Will haunt me to my Grave ?

Cruel

There once was a man named Phineas O'Toole
His countrymen always thought him a fool
He doesn't really mind
For, he knows thier not too kind
They were probably born that cruel
Form: Limerick

Sometimes I Feel Myself Extremely Cruel

Sometimes I feel   extremely cruel,
And  want to kill someone just with a stool.
My wife sent me to a psychiatrist for a visit.
O.K. I visited. Kill. But, still I feel uneasy.
Form: Quatrain

Immortal Image Versus Cruel Cage

Men were made in God’s immortal image
But were lured into serpent’s cruel cage;
    Christ bought redemption
     From eternal damnation,
For the sinner who wants to be a sage.
Form: Limerick

Immortal Image Versus Cruel Cage

Men were made in God’s immortal image
But were lured into serpent’s cruel cage;
    Christ bought redemption
     From eternal damnation,
For the sinner who wants to be a sage.
Form: Limerick

Cruel Infant

I know infants stink,
Scream, spread feces everywhere.
I saw one, learned why they're sweet.
Raising them costs all.
They'll mar the Earth like we did.
I saw heaven in his sleep.
Form: Sedoka

Cruel World

Cruel world! 
we are always changing for others
           suffering  for them
             satisfying them
   but we most never get a return
we hurt ourselves much than we know.
sad
Form: Acrostic

Cruel Fool Who Would Ridicule

Cruel Fool Who Would Ridicule

Found that Trump was truly a fool;
Had always constantly  been cruel;
Cause mishap;
In face slap;
Candidly criticize and did ridicule.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Heartless

godless
heartless
heathens
lunging out
from the sidelines
brutally attacking
unsuspecting
victims
doing the devil’s work
in the dead of night



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

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