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
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs 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
Old ManSilently 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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Categories:
agony, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Unsure the ShoreGrim 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
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
September 1945red 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
An Empty Tissue BoxWhen 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
Sadly Musing Life and LoveI 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
When I No Longer Love YouWhen 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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Categories:
agony, love, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Ruin GazingDrawn 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
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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Categories:
agony, death, love, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Tell It To the RainLike 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
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
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the DarknessA 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 1The 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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Categories:
agony, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form:
Alliteration