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Best Anemic Poems

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


Premium Member Cutting My Losses
Atmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -

black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzzle...

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Categories: anemic, anxiety, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Corruption of My Lust For Life
Hibiscus rays of light
herald the sun's stretch from slumber
in a bloom of ravishing red passion- 
Oh! how I despise dawn's blushing optimism
and lust for life!
for...

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Categories: anemic, bereavement, death, innocence, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly Dreams
I look through my prism
Still I can not see
All of your vibrant colours

I wish for the beauty of a sunrise
To see the brilliance of flowers...

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Categories: anemic, appreciation, art, beauty, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Hangover
“The death lasts an average of 49 days, starting from the day the deceased realized his death”. Bardo Thodol (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)


I...

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Categories: anemic, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Unfulfilling Love
Dormant desires within derelict deserts’
Winds whispering of your selective stealth
Frozen fingers that chill the empty spaces
Longing for you a pacifier of thickened thorns
Discombobulation drives the...

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Categories: anemic, conflict, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Best In Show
The cold sun’s anemic arc, 
    skirts the day with crystal frill. 
    Prancing just above the pines, ...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anemic, winter,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Beautiful Ones
Beautiful Ones

Aloft in the steam, they look like Eagles.
Perched now on the edge of the bowl,
proud courtesies peck the kind and meek
with true meanings and...

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Categories: anemic, abuse, anger, hate, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainbow Symphony
I looked through my prism
Still I could not see
Your colors

I wished for the beauty of a sunrise
Wild flowers blooming
Bright blue sky and emerald waters
The colors...

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Categories: anemic, color,
Form: Free verse
Clear As Day
Love hath tasted of arsenic lips
ground thy soul upon treacherous hips
opened vessels with anemic blood
bathed in a teared river of mud

yet loneliness fills a desires...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anemic, life, love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Black Scarlet (Love In the 2nd Degree)
are we crazy or just contrived 
lazy or simply self-involved? 
are we insignificant, significant 
or just like everyone else 
deranged on the outside 
swimming through...

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© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anemic, art, confusion, death, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There'Ll Be No Rain
There'll be no rain the forecast said
til January's wounded pride
erupts upon the bloomless beds
and weeps a pewter morning tide.

There'll be no rain for many weeks,
just...

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Categories: anemic, christmas, weather, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Ballad of Danny Fine
Not too long ago, back about 1929
Was conceived a boy, name of Danny Fine
Born on a Thursday, 24th of October
A day the stock market turned...

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Categories: anemic, father, mother, relationship, son,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
evolves from enthymematic roots
toward mutually empathic,
darkly transparent
nondual dark energy

Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
pregnant...

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Categories: anemic, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Derogatory Diner
There was a chef named Luke,
All of his entrees were nuked.
In every dinner he planned,
All of his food was canned,
And most of his patrons puked.

Now...

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Categories: anemic, funny
Form: Limerick
Drought
Pedaling along river drive
empty plastic grocery bags
fluttered and flapped from tree branches
like lost battle surrender flags
that line the drought-stricken river.
Their interspersed clings reminded
me of inundated...

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Categories: anemic, natural disasters, nature, river,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things