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Poison The Well Poems - Poems about Poison The Well

Poison The Well Poems - Examples of all types of poems about poison the well 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 poison the well.
Dining with Death
..."Forever" seemed like a long time The taste buds had worn off the desire to eat from the same plate My eyes feasted on other froral ceramic plates not of my cabinet I ate from one plate to the ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, betrayal, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Mind's Room
... A Craig Cornish Contest: Empty Room ------------------ A kaleidoscope of unknown thrill rushes within my swollen veins, needle-pricked – and the liquid opiate carries me high, upstream like......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, angst, places, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member power animal reassures me
...I spent my first day of retirement chopping down small trees. Renegade brambles full of ivy and poison vines, Kansas kinds. Tripped on several of them, landing hard, without using my hands. I hear......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, work,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Controversy
...I myself, more than society am I A delusional world beyond belief struggle Or obstacle of movement as a mountain Controversy world torn between two souls One heart's breathe to survive who we......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, character, conflict, corruption, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member When Words Burn
...Your lies are strong like coffee grounds, but I can't grind them up small enough to make them go down smooth Your presence is becoming more like unexpected coffee stains Unsightly, unwanted, unbea......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, conflict, feelings, hurt, poetry,
Form: Blank verse



Ur Inner Glow in Me
...Falling away into the deep end Following you just for the mere mend Honestly, I die everyday in your arms Wish you could see you do me no harm I need your inner glow to help me out here I need......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Lyric
March of the Shadows
...I hold my breath this night a burning lungful of the green and dying sea that leaps then sinks in the minor key of sorrow’s deep and distant light a lowly note against my chest foam ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, dark, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member lovely
...lovely spirea birds dropped poison ivy seeds.... full sunshine warms earth ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Grand Dragon Press
...Some may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther kings famous ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, 2nd grade, black love,
Form: Free verse
Clamoring
...Now that we see it all we can't leap it's to tall  it's to fast its to steep its to black it's to bleak. Its everything we fear.  its our worst moment put on the rack and stretched into a ye......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, deep, inspiration, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Aurorabelle DeVil
...In the shadows, where the night is dark and deep, Aurorabelle DeVil weaves her wicked spell, with a heart that's cold as sleep, and a wicked little grin that tells the tale. The moon above, the only ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, imagination,
Form: Lyric
Lilith
...A dweller in waste places, a void in foggy darkness, the unseen shadow that trails us. A doom that curses benign plants. A tenacious panting wolf feeding off the sorrows of the soil. She'......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, anger, angst, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Considering my position
...Somehow, all this grit makes me breathe out a wall of glass A prison forming, where I've too much to say but am unable to be heard Too tightly encased to generate the power needed to break out Arm......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lilith
... I am Lilith, like a ghost pipe under oak shadows of Tomorrow River Valley hiding in-between hours, roots sipping moonlit juice borrowed from Eden, a deception of men ascending into the hollow o......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, analogy, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sonnet for the Empress
... In shadows draped, my night empress does glide, Amidst the moonlit meadow’s misty sigh, Her raven locks, a midnight river’s tide, Flow ‘neath the moonbeam’s haunting silver sky. Her eyes, o......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, beauty, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Sonnet

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