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Short Cruelty Poems

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


Premium Member Wisdom
If they are staring at you anyway, 
do a little soft shoe....

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Categories: cruelty, dance, fate, feelings, funny, happy, humor, success,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member We Parted
my heart couldn't win
only verbal cruelty
today we parted...

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Categories: cruelty, anger, hate,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Words
Words of cruelty
inflict invisible wounds...
Do they ever heal?...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelty, bullying,
Form: Senryu
He's Nicer Now
HE'S NICER NOW

Saw my ex
heart attack transformed
cruelty zapped...

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Categories: cruelty, introspection, life, love, people,
Form: Haiku
Hope
Cruelty and pain
Delivered in so many ways
Driven to hope
To only die once...

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Categories: cruelty, angst, death, depression, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
 
the story of a black horse a life of cruelty- his search for love
...

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Categories: cruelty, books,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member What Grandma Said
"Don't you cuss at your ol' gramma!  C'mere! 
I'm gonna wash your mouth out with catsh*t!"...

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Categories: cruelty, animal, cat, child abuse, childhood, cry, grandmother,
Form: Epigram
Peace
WAR BREAKS ALL OVER GLOBE
CALAMITY CRUELTY BLOOD SHED FRONT PAGE NEWS
PEACE EVER BREAKS I WONDER...

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Categories: cruelty, life, philosophy, political, social,
Form: Haiku
Violence
Violence
Mediaised, regretted
Unyielding, disregarding, uncaring
Cruelty spawning cruelty
Humanity...

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Categories: cruelty, humanity, violence,
Form: Cinquain
A Credo To Live By
Path of righteous indignity is mine.
Won't tolerate cruelty...
There but for grace goes I.


for Chris's contest...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelty, introspection, passion,
Form: Kimo
Am I?
Two hands two legs
A pretty face, so much grace
No heart, no Feelings
Cruelty reigns supreme in my mind
Am i human?...

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Categories: cruelty, introspection
Form: Free verse
Frostbite
some people are
  as cruel as a cold
 winter day

 — senryu



Berteena
Wild Orchid Haiku

13 February, 2019...

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Categories: cruelty, bullying, hurt, prejudice, psychological, rude, sad, symbolism,
Form: Senryu
Shorts
I was born blind
To
The joys
And
Could only see Life’s cruelty
But then you came
And
Brought back all the good to me....

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© Laura Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelty, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Violations of Humanity
hurting a puppy without a conscious
injuring a toddler on purpose
bludgeoning someone you once loved
a violation of humanity...

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Categories: cruelty, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alone Z
Alone

	bleak
no color in my heart
	sad

   hidden
	behind doors

still exposed
	to all the cruelty
		of the wind...

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Categories: cruelty, art, child, feelings, loneliness, lonely, sad, wind,
Form: Free verse
Cruelty
doesnt have a bloodline
wish i could shed mine
just waiting for you to end
it give time a chance
cos the future ended back there...

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Categories: cruelty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cruelty
bare rainbow colors

                        remembered the cruelty

                                         all colors turn white...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelty, allusion, color, rainbow,
Form: Haiku
Temporary Cruelty
Grass begs for water
Feeling helpless, no extra
My funds are too tight
I am so sorry, dear grass
Can quench your thirst soon...I hope...

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© K. James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelty, hope,
Form: Tanka
Big Bite
It hurts to bite
Leaving the mouth 
Pain too goes away
The pain of crisis stays
Living in us,leaving not
What cruelty?
The tooth of life!...

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Categories: cruelty, depression, evil,
Form: Free verse
Be
Be kind but not weak
Be strong without falling into cruelty 

Be who you want to be without crafting a false identity 
Be someone worth knowing...

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© Ezra Cook  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cruelty, character, life, mental health, perspective, philosophy, social,
Form: Free verse
Men Cruelty Beasts Pity
The man invested in  total falsehood
killing without mercy, cruel insanity
the informal beasts have further pity
they only kill to eat as a simple mood...

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Categories: cruelty, allegory, allusion, animal, irony, men, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Sickness
The cruelty I can't abide,
The type that we human beings hide,
Some put on a pleasant face,
While hiding thoughts, debased,
Making most feel sick inside....

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Categories: cruelty, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Danger Around the Corner
Bad luck and wrong time act in unity
nature so far from solidarity
misfortune libidinous
red zone strongly ominous
beaten by cane of fate, cruelty or laxity....

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Categories: cruelty, environment, evil, fate, passion, perspective,
Form: Limerick
Distant Places
Distant places where they live like royalty
Distant places they love to call home
Distant places where they live with cruelty
Distant places they run away from...

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Categories: cruelty, hate, immigration, peace, places, power, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Gossip
Words used to sever humanity Lunged with disdain and fierce brutality Glinting, steel tongued cruelty Hollow of joy, music and grace
...

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Categories: cruelty, hate,
Form: Quatrain

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