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Short Purgatory Poems

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


Marriage of Humans
begins as  heaven,
grows into purgatory
ends as hell...

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Categories: purgatory, marriage, satire,
Form: Triolet



Lost Cause
I combed Elysium 
for my loss in purgatory
but on earth it sits...

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Categories: purgatory, depression, introspection, loss
Form: Haiku
Sleepy Brain
My still sleepy brain
   Exists in Purgatory-
      Where is my coffee!

A. Green...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purgatory, introspection
Form: Senryu
Purgatory
time to face the truth tomorrow is no excuse the past mine alone
...

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Categories: purgatory, deep, history, i am, truth,
Form: Senryu
Single Vs Double
Spinster life seems paradise..
        whilst married life divulges purgatory..!!

~DEEPA~...

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© V. Deepa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purgatory, conflict, dark, hate, heaven, humor, life, love,
Form: Epigram



What Have We Become Tweetable Contest
something is missing in your heart
something is empty in my soul
and our minds are in purgatory...

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Categories: purgatory, break up,
Form: Haiku
Words From Purgatory
Careful what you eat at Eden
At the back of the paradise
Lies hell and its den
The pack awaits who God chastise....

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Categories: purgatory, deep, paradise, religious, vanity,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Suspended Souls
To have loved and lost
are a heaven and a hell;
and the place between
is their own purgatory,
a limbo of sorting out....

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Categories: purgatory, feelings, heaven, loss, love, men, relationship, women,
Form: Tanka
Words From Purgatory
So much, I could not bottle in
My troubled thoughts and inner grim
Too much enough for a slouchy soul
Pray it fades like the windy snow....

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Categories: purgatory, grief, religious, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse
Words From Purgatory
For the 'good mornings' 
You fail to give,
For the 'goodnight' that stare,
But you do not see,
The 'goodbye' would hurt
Without cease....

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Categories: purgatory, death, judgement, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Wth T-Rump Xxviii
He is the number one story
On news t-rump's in his glory
The die hards he'll scare
When their health care's not there
Leaving them in purgatory...

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Categories: purgatory, bullying,
Form: Limerick
Purgatory Perhaps
grimaces around me
there is no light here
smog erupts through my visible soul
I have yet to realize my location
brain and heart are no longer with me....

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Categories: purgatory, angst, confusion, death
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Purgatory
brilliant thoughts whirling and I sans the wherewithal to collect them all For Brahn Bailey's Son of a Senryu Poetry Contest
...

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Categories: purgatory, poetry,
Form: Senryu
Words From Purgatory
Love while your heart beats
Less to give when it cease
Much less to see when you cleanse.
Why purge when you can treat?
Here, you will purge without treat....

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Categories: purgatory, allegory, death, emotions, love, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
We Hold the Reigns
We hold the reigns to victory, or defeat - or that awful purgatory of in-between. 

May 11, 2018

Note: Written in an email in regards to the state of stagnancy....

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Categories: purgatory, endurance, future, growth, introspection, meaningful, mystery, relationship,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Nugatory
nugatory coin tossed,
up in the air —
perpetrator hoping for
purgatory.
hell lands on his head.

Kim Rodrigues (c) 12/4/2019

nugatory - having no value...

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Categories: purgatory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Harbor Purgatory
The gentle purgatory invites me, my harbor,
If a man doesn’t belong in hell or heaven,
Neither in life or love, where does he belong?
To his forever home, where he shall rest…...

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Categories: purgatory, angst, death, heaven, home, life, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Germinating Souls
As winter
yields to spring
seeds wrinkled in time
join dormant flower bulbs
seeking sheltering dwellings
in purgatory catacombs of earth
and await the labor of nature’s rebirth....

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Categories: purgatory, allegory, analogy, earth, flower, imagery, spring,
Form: Prose Poetry
Alone
Alone I stand..steady and calm as my eyes wonder, Deep in depression my soul lays in its fetal position, Crying out for affection as I wanders alone through this purgatory we live in....

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Categories: purgatory, conflict, corruption, dark, depression, feelings, loneliness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free Will
God gives free will to Humankind.
Many think out of sight is out of mind.
While others claim they can't see.
Yet, choice leads to purgatory.
And there's plenty of hemp, you'll find....

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Categories: purgatory, analogy, integrity,
Form: Quintain (English)
Love
Never touch never see
nor posess must be free
everliving and deathless
not from above or below
yet it exists,all humans know
subsistent through purgatory
unremittingly is its truest form...

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Categories: purgatory, love,
Form: Narrative
Soulfire
My mind's disturbed
fading
crumbling into abyss
a selfmade purgatory
hellfires burn in my soul
as my inner child bleeds a pus like substance
what to do
someone tell me
I need saving from myself...

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Categories: purgatory, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
Words From Purgatory
A step down the downright cone. 
Praying a peace tends the toans.
At the creaking arch of every boan, 
a higher pitch, take the tones.
Tones taking a piece for peace.
Screaming, 'walk upright, please’....

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Categories: purgatory, allegory, character, christian, judgement, religious,
Form: Lyric
Le Vacance Pretentieuse: Thoughts From the Clouds
Endless White, billowed dreams of squatting men,
I stretch out to grasp an insubstantial floating sky,
A fluffy purgatory, a Grayscale cycle revolves again
Forever out of reach, I extend arms, choosing to fly....

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purgatory, angst, freedom, happy, holiday, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Purgatory
Purgatory
Often imagined as a place
Is actually a condition
Who dies in Eternal God’s grace
(At peace in God and in men)

Who still needs purification
Before seeing Eternal God 
face to face
Is in purgatory

5142013...

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Categories: purgatory, allah, christian, faith, spiritual,
Form: Verse

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