Best Agony Poems

Cascading waves wash ashore,
tickling toes, they ebb and flow;
as moonbeams
set a thousand jewels sparkling
upon the shoal.

Smiles summon sweet emotions
as we stroll upon the beach,
hand in hand
under a starry sky;
pausing to build castles in the sand.

And in this state of blissfulness,
two lonely souls unite
for all eternity.

Our hopes and tears
willingly shared;
trust defines the essence of caring.
And yet,...

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I am being told to let go
By almost everyone I know
Release, let it out, let it be
Plunge into passivity
 
While I cling to bitter beauty
My bruises bloom a thorny tree
Guarding roses of agony

This pain is mine, it belongs to me
My torment is my blood, it breathes
with every breath, it beats with my heartbeats
Within my tears,...

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A love not lost but never found
 An open secret kept unknown
 The peaceful paths of love's battleground
 A sweet agony  yet to be sown

 She was clearly confused
 At the random order
 of love's sad joy
 How it could create and then destroy

 Love was a prisoner roaming free
 Altogether separate from reality
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I lie awake thinking of the agony. 
Life has pierced through my heart.
The pain of loss what could have been.
How can there be life without life.
I fear not the thought of death.
You see, with death there is peace.
So what is this death with pain.

Edward J Ebbs - 02/28/2015...

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Barbarous reason rejoices
and draws strength dispensing death.
Its celebration comes with
cold effigies of blood soaked,
ravaged, masked graves of silence,
leaving any subsequent regret
within the heart of the stonecutter.
The suffocating privacy
of each muddy sepulcher
calls out its loss-but who will listen
through the rumble of the caissons roar?
Fear has no time to mourn.
Only after the flame
leaves its postscript
are the cries...

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Star-dusted peaks you seek on love's golden moonbeam bliss,
Feeling the rapture of whipped-cream desire in a whir;
Human experience wrapped in euphoria's kiss,
The ecstasy and agony of human nature...

Throes of living with woes, lost love's pathos reminisce,
Soul-groaning, heart-moaning; unwanted guests' bereft slur;
Wallowing human exist falls in nightmare's abyss,
The ecstasy and agony of human nature.


Susan Ashley
October 13,...

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The Pain and the Agony

The Pain and the Agony
Jesus felt that day;
It tortured His being;
Death held no delay.
Even to take a breath
The pain was so extreme;
The sins of us all,
Crushed him beam to beam.

The cross of the Romans;
Built to inflict much pain.
The pain of our sin-bearer
Was suffered for our gain.
Because He truly loves us,
He was...

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The Agony Outside


    Still sitting here wondering why my reflection always fades
        And how that the phantom me causes shadows in the shade
            Flying over thoughtless things as my sanity starts to slide
 ...

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I have drunk from the cup of Sorrow,
Yet my thirst has not been slaked.
So I drink from the cup of Pain,
And I have slaked my thirst at last.

For I now bear the fruits of agony,
Because I have drunk from both cups.
I know Pain,
My closest friend.

I know Sorrow,
My dearest comfort.
I can not turn my back to...

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While my happiness hawls in a dark cave of self-doubt, I smile.
Burying my brain cells in the grave of immense fear, I speak.
While my dreams burn in the dreary path of desolation, I suffer to sleep. 
Shedding rivers of blood 
enough to fill the midnight ocean, I walk. 

I welcome each morning with a hammering...

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Grow up, they say,
You will come to understand the world,
Yourself,
Things will become better.

Oh how I waited,
To the time I will have ‘grown up’

I am,

They said I would have more peace,
Said I would  understand myself,
Have peace in each and every doing,

Oh mama, they lied,
Every decision I make bites me,
Torments me,

Mama I am scared of the...

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My love garden remains unweeded,
Each planted flower slowly wilting.
A shadow spreads across my sunlight,
And a storm lingers without rainfall.

Sad teardrops fall from my broken heart,
No blood shed, yet my worlds fall apart.
Agony, sorrow, deep dejection—
Reflections in my shattered mirror.

My tear burns hot enough to bake bread,
Depression drapes a cloak on my head.
Love tortures like a...

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Gorgeous green garden
Filled with fantastic flowers
Three tremendous trees
Tall enough to hide tormented towers

There dwells a dark demolisher
In this garden, green with grief
Suffocating me in senseless sorrow
Being brutalized, my breath becomes brief

You might see many marvelous plants
But these plants grow a poisonous pain
Vomiting very venomous fumes
As agony fills me up again...

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Oh, honey, your lover’s a jerk;
I promise it really can’t work -
As he’s married, of course,
And he wouldn’t divorce -
I’d deck him* and wipe off his smirk.

* to punch someone hard and knock them to the ground

For Vicky’s Agony Aunt contest...

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Death by suicide
Death in agony
Agony of poison
Agony as emotions race

Race through organs
Race through minds
Mind tortured
Mind destroyed

Child without a mother
Child in tears
Tears flow
Tears remain

Remain insecurities
Remain fears
Fears torment
Fears hold captive

Captive to separations
Captive to uncertainty
Uncertainty of life
Uncertainty of love

Love evaporates
Love uplifts
Uplifts in thoughts
Uplifts in deeds

Deeds done
Deeds good or bad
Bad action
Bad examples

Examples of adults
Examples of illness 
Illness overwhelms
Illness destroys

Destroys...

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