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Torment Poems - Poems about Torment

Torment Poems - Examples of all types of poems about torment 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 torment.
Premium Member A Song of Bridges
... When I am weary, feeling small,* I pray because I know God cares. The love of God, who made me, is supreme; no other love compares. When troubled waters, rough and deep, torm......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, courage, friend, god, self,
Form: Lyric



I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
...I live in a world of brutal ice and cold Despite the temperature being five below... these fingered handy limbs awash with profuse sweat dripping palms analogous to a bloody busted gushing wat......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are Always On My Mind
...I wore his dog tags and his medal for the valor they implied. My heart was aching, sorrow engulfed me, I felt torment inside. Life lost meaning. I had hated that war since it first begun. Now the ......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Final Words of a Bereft Poet
...If I could no longer write poetry, I'd have no need of hands, nor eyes weary from weeping, a heart that lies broken, and a soul dead from mourning. ~ by poet I heard the fai......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, bereavement, poetry,
Form: Elegy
When You Were
...When you were Crouched and crying In a corner With your father Hovered over Five years old And forced to Step into set of negligée When you were Bound and beaten For the pleasure Of w......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, change, child abuse, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Praising
... Praise God! Shout to heaven, praising! While there’s time, remember His grace, His love, inspires, so amazing. Praising with love time won’t erase. Worship with hearts faithful ......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, appreciation, christian, god, heart,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Think of This
... Imagine this – if you have the courage: scientists just conquered Death, the scourge and fear of mankind for millennia. But not everyone’s shouting halleluljah. Foremost are religionists a......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, dark, humor,
Form: Didactic
The Cost of Change
...The torment by lower things only adds fuel to the dormant flames You can try as you will to block its shine but still it will rise & rage the same Time & again they've felt the flames so in this ......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, introspection, philosophy, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
SCARS OF TRIBALISM
...Look how fractured a people we are The strong bond we once shared Is no longer anywhere to be found Except in the torment where we are bound. We let an unknown concept The babble of the tongue......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burning
... So you find your light down there in the dark, down there the light burns for you so bright. You feel the warmth of the cold street light where rain finds the tears you cry. Sharp edged paving ......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unmasked
...I escaped their eyes, for my disguise was seen through All is lost, despair in the air, craving for peace My never-ending thoughts of wonder, I whisper, "Allow them to cut, I need to rest." I w......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, caregiving, color, fantasy, for
Form: Free verse
Fractured Rhythms
...In the darkest recesses of my mind a maelstrom brews, a tempest unseen epilepsy's insidious tendrils weave a tapestry of chaos, thoughts ensnared Every step a battle, every task a test concent......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love’s Haunting Pursuit
...Lost in labyrinthine lanes of midnight's embrace, Where ghostly gas lamps gleam, casting silhouettes of grace, Their luminescence lingers on cobblestone veins, Chattering footsteps echo, bound in ......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, dark, gothic, hope, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
SVT - the beginning and end
...Pristine walls surround me, as the beeping hurts my ears. My vision blurs once more, and within moments I'm wheeled somewhere I can only describe as deafening. A young girl around my age scream......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, 9th grade, childhood, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love's Foundation
... 1 John 4:18 (KJV) “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” I’d been thinking I could......Read the rest...
Categories: torment, encouraging, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse

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