Best Compassion Poems
Below are the all-time best Compassion poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of compassion poems written by PoetrySoup members
Be the Flame of CompassionBe the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...
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Categories:
compassion, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Its a Part of MeOur lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...
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Categories:
compassion, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
compassion, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...
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Categories:
compassion, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
compassion, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
compassion, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling WolfAmerican Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf
Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...
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Categories:
compassion, art, conflict, death, history,
Form:
Verse
As Poets Prepare Their PensThey hide behind mountains of ignorance,
judging within a valley of selfish love.
Among weeds where flowers refuse to grow,
to the mercy of hypocrites -
only we...
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Categories:
compassion, peace, perspective, political,
Form:
Free verse
EffervescenceI am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...
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Categories:
compassion, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Would You Still Love Me?Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home
within...
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Categories:
compassion, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form:
Free verse
Because I Love YouI saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,
And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.
I heard the howling
Of...
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Categories:
compassion, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form:
Free verse
The Woman They Know
Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
her fiery scars pound against her sanity
struggling in twisted ropes of...
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Categories:
compassion, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form:
Free verse
This Was Meit began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...
i felt safe as...
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Categories:
compassion, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Silent Friendwhen demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind
when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars
when dreams are...
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Categories:
compassion, community, emotions, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Wings of ChangeRemembering when
Perched high above on rocky crags
Cliffs weathered by times handprints
I saw far and wide to distant shores
Tendrils of desire radiating outwards
Riding the briny mist...
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Categories:
compassion, appreciation, birth, celebration, creation,
Form:
Free verse