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Shrieking Poems - Poems about Shrieking


Shrieking Heart
The Shriek of the banshee will find you Like the shark finds its prey in the sea. Staring at my reflection, I realize the tortured, Screaming banshee is ME. Could you ever Love me? Love this shell of a human I am? Or will I be doomed to Wander in this middle ground and Be eternally damned? With a touch...

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Categories: shrieking, dark, deep, feelings, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shopping Center Blackbird
** Shopping Center Blackbird ** He, rising in defense of the others, Presenting himself, to all with ears To hear and before all eyes, The black, flapping silhouette atop The silver, double-bulbed street lamp; This loudest shrieking, Not to be ignored Blackbird, Appearing actually, Half the size of his declaring all This territory his own — That expanse of dark blue Paved spaces, surrounded At a...

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Categories: shrieking, bird, city, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shrieking and Wailing
Madness has come to get me today. She whisked me out of the food line, and told me I did not have a chance. I am a loser, a dupe, a pawn. She put nails in my head, and drew blood from my teeth. She kicked me unmercifully in my tenderest parts. I was shrieking and screaming, trying to...

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Categories: shrieking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Shrieking Sisters
Do silence them Do prick the mortal flesh Spin a web in what they bleed And chain them to the garden gate Maidens of the high teas Casting a tower of pollution The thick smoke clinging to the inside Of a cautious lung, a war of attrition Taking to the top, with their chains Like ghosts in padlocks, haunting A society plucked back into industrial...

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Categories: shrieking, history
Form: Free verse
Shrieking Face
I saw her the other day staring Up close and shrieking her face into mine. I did not like this stare And I hate all people who Carry a stare like this in their back pockets Waiting for the rain to pull it out. Well I am the rain and you are my gravity sucking me down into the depths of...

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Categories: shrieking, angst, rain, rain,
Form: Free verse




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