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Waif Poems - Poems about Waif

Waif Poems - Examples of all types of poems about waif 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 waif.
Hell
...Hell The place of safety was dirty and cold The building smelt musty, damp and old Place of safety in which I was to roam Was, in fact, a children's home They clothed and fed me as little......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, childhood, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



The past
...Recreating the mid seventies With the Delfonics Alive and Kicking Snafu and String Driven Thing Bedsitter land imagined on the suburbia lengthwise red duvets changed frequently It seems so d......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ah, wassailing!
...We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon. It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture post......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, christmas, holiday, humor, new
Form: Free verse
Wonder Why Do or Die Horn Adjusted Haiku
...my cat had wondered why whether he would do or die my poem is new type never want to hear you gripe have to hear the hype 9,000 poems have surpassed must have heard my forecast Infinity ......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Condor
...A condor in the window Lilting to one side Favoring the throat not yet marked. Cain’s hand—colder Than described. A star on frosted glass. There is light beneath the crystals It powers the......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 'Twas Naught His Night
...Be there the bight of a November drain turned off tattered ruffles blotted feign a ledged I removed and tender earlobes waif yonder spectral possession probe......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Superstar
...The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will show their love by means of applause and whistles. When I am o......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Gift
...From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out. The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity. In his haste to cross th......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Abandoned
...ABANDONED Standing here by the empty dock Cruise ship sailed, maybe an hour ago I readily admit that I was a little late But I somehow knew it wouldn’t wait The correct berth the cab didn’t k......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, adventure, boat,
Form: Rhyme
Waif
...I feel your eyes looking at me As I pass by at a quarter to three When you should be tucked away By your parents at the end of day Running around in a gang complete No shoes being placed upon ......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Path
...My feet have been stepping on your chest numerous times, path, How gladly, like a mother, accept me and each stranger! No complaint; no grudge feeling; not even a little wrath, How cheerfully you ......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Felines Anonymous Or Fa
... Dearest kitty, you drank my wine last night. No wonder, you avoid the bright sunlight ! I shall make a small ice bag, for your head, ......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, cat, humor,
Form: Couplet
Born To Wander
...Rejected by parents forsaken alone One choice left to make forever to roam The cost ever paying their wages of sin Steps of abandonment traipsing within To beg or to borrow the fu......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Drag
...Once upon a haven for now a heathen waif once unified by craft now a lowly execrate for loving every neighbour for flying a rainbow flag for once upon a kinship now pariah what a drag *......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, community, discrimination, poets, sad,
Form: Verse
Those Who Need Us
...Those who need us “Who knocks so quite on, the cloister’s, door A poor waif from a land afar.” The rest of the song is the miasma of years. Many people in this world are born under An unluck......Read the rest...
Categories: waif, anti bullying, best friend,
Form: Free verse

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