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Helplessness Poems - Poems about Helplessness

Helplessness Poems - Examples of all types of poems about helplessness 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 helplessness.
An ode to a wounded child
...O tender soul, o innocence defiled, What cruelties did your youth upend? Tormented by she who should cherish her child, Instead her addictions made her your fiend. Those eyes that should have b......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



There’s nothing to mourn about death, any more than the blooming of a rose
...There’s nothing to mourn about death, any more than the blooming of a rose, What’s truly terrible isn’t death, but the lives that are wasted. People lose their essence in the abyss of forgetfulness......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The bigger joke
... You may not be there I may not be there But the earth will revolve ......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Silence Speaks
...When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt, I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity, amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining regrets~ upon flowers, sway......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Oh, land of yearning, soil of the pandemic
...Oh, land of yearning, soil of the pandemic, Across your bereaved fields, a lone wanderer carries His tattered garment of helplessness, In his steps echoes the cry of the land that cannot comprehen......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



The Paralytic
...Paralysis in the body makes the mind dead as well. Doesn't existence drag, like an engine-less machine? Though a hundred stewards assist, isn't life more than hell? bed, like servants who never he......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
I will not leave untaught
...I will not leave untaught, With what color freedom shines. Not a stranger on this Earth, But a citizen of the whole planet. And as truths unfold, What you feel freedom is, on this corner of the ......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I wish to break through, to heal my soul with the whiteness of words
...I wish to break through, to heal my soul with the whiteness of words, But they hide in my shadow like shy animals. My story is a forest where the echo of footsteps has been lost, And my pain is th......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PROVIDES THAT WE MAY EAT
... April 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 4-5 Key Verse – 2Kings 4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, th......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member To Which Image Should we Cling
... Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest Line of inquiry: “We have been here a thousand times before Memory erased, each time we begin anew Of hands held tenderly......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, analogy, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated Steely Dan sing queen (me) outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary after Grahame Wood determined to meet the evolving needs of the communi......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, america, anger, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
...Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live The following poetic account written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago, while I (a socially withdrawn *****S......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, abuse, america, angst, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ense
...What good is intelligence If have no common sense Pretence Sitting on a fence Violence Going to war with no defence Offense No supported evidence A jail sentence Recompense False Reverence......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, conflict,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member When You Can't Help
...Tears fall, silent rain, Heart aches to heal unseen wounds. Hands reach, touch the void, In the dance of shadowed dreams, Love whispers, yet remains bound.......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, love, love hurts, sad
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Black and White
...I am like an avalanche slithering in shivering angst, free-falling into an abyss of an aching era, where luminous lakes reflect pixelated regrets, for time throws my canvas into splitting helpless......Read the rest...
Categories: helplessness, angst,
Form: Free verse

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