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Best Agony Poems

Below are the all-time best Agony poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of agony poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: agony, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agony, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Unsure the Shore
Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...

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Categories: agony, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet
Cuckoo
Far away in a
                land torn with war,
  ...

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Categories: agony, bird, hope, love,
Form: Shape
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: agony, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member September 1945
red rooftops appear to glow in rainy-day haze
lost in memories of pre-war bliss
     she looks up to watch them bleed

pain is...

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Categories: agony, longing, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Empty Tissue Box
When pain hits hard, you might feel like your soul
is bleeding out, but there’s no blood to see.
Your body is the part that takes the...

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Categories: agony, body, grief, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sadly Musing Life and Love
I sit alone as evening claims the day,
with common crow my only confidant.
I watch the sun sink slowly in the bay
while musing life and love...

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Categories: agony, lonely, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When I No Longer Love You
When dawn's blush of light eclipses the moon
And afternoons find meadows sprinkled with dew
When I view willows smiling instead of weeping
And the keeping of promises...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agony, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Ruin Gazing
Drawn by subtle intuition
I follow a winding path
into the heart of the woods,
emerging in an open glade
where feeble sunlight falls
upon a moss covered wall.
Isomorphic intimacy...

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Categories: agony, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final resting place
Brick by brick I built my walls,
despite fires raging,
I preserved paths that connected
bridges between our breathless existence. 

Now that my heartbeats
have reached a dead end...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agony, death, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tell It To the Rain
Like the cloud, I am collecting the moisture in memory,
Soaking up the solitude, I have been alone in misery.
Feeling full on failure, droplet wall builds...

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Categories: agony, hurt, rain, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Flower -Part One-
“A Flowers Wilt”	

Witness the small existence 
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.

A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...

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Categories: agony, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: agony, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: agony, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things