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Despair Poems - Poems about Despair
Despair Poems - Examples of all types of poems about despair to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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The pain of the unseen effort
..."The pain Of The Unseen Effort" The weight of the world, Upon weary shoulders, Crushing the spirit, As effort and energy, Seem to vanish like vapor, Into the silent void, With no recognition, ......
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Nirat Dominic
Categories:
despair,
5th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Power of Words
... Written: May 10, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cosmic candor will be suitable beyond our sight, providing insight we sift and shift, sustaining a sanctum......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
despair,
analogy, words,
Form:
Free verse
Remind Me Not, Our Love Was Lost
... I first read Lord Byron's poetry, after a love was lost. Each of us going separate ways; sorrow, the high cost. Byron wrote of his grieving in 'When We Two Parted,' of how lovers might leav......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
despair,
lost love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Whispers of Evil Mind
... Written: May 9th 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Opacity prevails in the chasm of my mind, A subtle maze of torture and straps behind. Hallucinations wa......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
despair,
anxiety, character,
Form:
Rhyme
When Silence Speaks
...The devil sleeps in the hearts of men, When silence speaks no need of pen, Veiled, a puppet master pulling strings, Empathy dangling as the devil sings. Humanity resides in dreams despair, Hop......
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Daniel Caplin
Categories:
despair,
evil, pain, silence, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Vulnerable to love: a heart's Journey
... In my mind... I always thought I was strong, But I was proven wrong With the weakness I sired, From your unmatched, Immense love, I always wished to have And taste, before I became nature's......
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Ssenkezi Henry
Categories:
despair,
beautiful, crush, cute, cute
Form:
Free verse
CIRCLE OF LIFE
...A two edged knife that deluges us With both the midlife and afterlife Like a tempest, It sways us to ruination and obscurity Then hoists us to reclamation and lucidity The circle of life! ......
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Darlington Lordkelvin
Categories:
despair,
life,
Form:
Free verse
When Death Stopped for Me
...Because I could not escape from Life – It rudely dragged me forth – The chaos swirled, consuming all – And Oblivion, my worth. We raced through days – no time to rest – And I, a franti......
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Jeremy Troutman
Categories:
despair,
age, cry, destiny, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Never Say Never
...We mortals are more prone to react to trouble than to reply or respond. We become weak victims of despair after declaring, "It's not fair". We must both stand and withstand before being swal......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
despair,
courage,
Form:
Couplet
Psalm of Struggle
...A Psalm of Struggle My soul is parched by the waterless desert of despair. My dry tongue longs to lap cool water. The hot sun of temptation beats down on me. The fragile body I live in beg......
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Oliver Mckeithan
Categories:
despair,
faith, god,
Form:
Free verse
Touch a Raw Nerve
... perception’s belief… until deception’s beneath ~ despair is bequeathed ......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
despair,
faith, pain, perspective,
Form:
Senryu
Rain
...Teardrops of the angel engulf the world The immense of despair unfurls The inevitability of sorrow consumes the universe In the shadows anguish and agony lurks......
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Suhavee Sethi
Categories:
despair,
5th grade,
Form:
Free verse
A solitary figure
...In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childh......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form:
Rhyme
Oblivion
...In the depths of her despair, she's confined, A solitary figure, lost in her mind, Engulfed by shadows, no end in sight, She battles demons in the darkest night. Her thoughts, like poison, eat ......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
conflict, dark, depression, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
This Greyling Sallow Place
...Gloomy dismal, and forlorn... that's how this day was borne in a Greyling sallow place where death doth reign without a face. In a boneyard of decaying flesh, one fresh abyss was dug to th......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
despair,
sad, silence,
Form:
Free verse
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