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Despairing Poems - Poems about Despairing

Despairing Poems - Examples of all types of poems about despairing 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 despairing.
Premium Member My Mistress, the Moon
... From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak my naked shame, to veil my plight......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Song Played
...Ephesians 1:7 (KJV) “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;” A song played. Melody, rhythms of beautiful, The tune was wrong......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, forgiveness, jesus, joy, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because He Lives
...When the past tears apart the courageous, leaving… Bloodstained bodies – trembling tears, silence, Nightmares, grief and no reassurance or relief, In the distance, so much disbelief, where......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Father's Memorial day
...The world has indeed been forgetting me Forgetting me cruelly As waste that neither grow nor breathe It is a fermentation of anger and despair As Despairing as it struggles with anger At th......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, blessing, father, father
Form: Free verse
Memory in Solace
...There is a grave with no name That stands lonelier still. It has no flowers nor despairing mourners And the grass grows thick and bushy, For this grave is left to rot. Abandoned is this grave—......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, death, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rejection Letter
... When the words don’t lure me with their muse, Desire to pour out hopes, dreams, light that bleeds, Wetting the beauty of my heart’s best seeds, Emptying the feelings, once caged by......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, meaningful, poems, poetry, word
Form: Verse
Premium Member Greener on the Other Side of the Fence
... He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire, fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines, reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries, the edges of a pasture, clever......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, animal, appreciation, endurance, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grieving
...Grieving; I weep silently As daylilies die daily A slow death but violently Their leaves a yellow shaley Feelings that are despairing Heart pain, actual sorrow Tears because you'r......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, beauty, depression, love, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member It Was Love
... Isaiah 43:1 “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mi......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van. Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, culture, depression, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member It Feels Like Spring's Ethereal Lanterns
... Season of hope, season of peace, Season of light, season of faith… As the new comes to hearts, washing away the darkness of winter’s haunting, Feelings bleed in pastel hues – glowing sunli......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, blessing, feelings, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paying To Play
...Imagine if you would be so kind, join me in striving to become less blind Brilliant God says: Give to your oppressively militarized government weaponized suppressive defensively repressive......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, community, culture, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Spontaneity
... "discarding narrow thought flow crutch we learn directly by soft touch and what we garner we relay to the vast void in childlike play entwined thus with the universe we dance without need to......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Greg the Ram
...Whilst grazing quietly in the paddock Greg the ram contemplated havoc It had been an exciting fortnight since He’d made his despairing owners wince Bored out of his skull by life on the farm ......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blessed Love
...Whispers and sighs, softest of smiles Reveal the music playing in the heart. Beautiful rhymes, soothing the nights, Stirring joy, faith and love – Breaths of prayers, some silent, Some echoes......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, animal, appreciation, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse

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