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Best At My Wits End Poems


Premium Member Ring a Bell
...Tinnitus tinnitus, innocuous by name,
invisible tasteless, sounds pretty lame,
Ears hissing, snakes inside my head, 
Growing louder, causing turmoil in bed,
Room’s spinning, feel like getting sic......

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Categories: at my wits end, abuse, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Rebel Without God
...Cried out in pain, needed to heal,
Nothing from God did I feel. 
Demobbed from the army,
In a terrible state,
Dumped in civvy street,
Where I had no mates.
Heart as cold as bayonet steel,
Me, ......

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Categories: at my wits end, blessing, god, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Telephone Version 2
...Winter nights, the darkness comes quick
Key in door, to an empty house
Jacket falls fast right on the floor
I stare at the stand, at the telephone for sure

There she sits, alone, unmoving
No b......

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Categories: at my wits end, beauty, funny, funny love,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Dear Santa
...Santa, I do confess
I feel a little bit strange
A middle aged man sitting on your knee
Whispering into your ear, my grandest wish
Let us both hope people do not get the wrong idea here
I am at m......

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Categories: at my wits end, beauty, christmas, funny, heart,
Form: Light Verse
The Anomaly of Irony.
...Rolling through a bloody mess,
my master died alone no less.
His mercy was indeed a lie,
he said I lived but now will die.

His hand was swift with a mighty stroke,
within a thought my life was......

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Categories: at my wits end, fantasy, funny, history, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Once a Month
...She’s doing my head in; I'm at my wits end
I reckon she’s losing the plot
Her tempers are fierce and her moods have no trend
And I’m struggling to deal with the way that she’s got

She gives me ......

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Categories: at my wits end, humorous, stress,
Form: Rhyme



Homeless Vet On the Street
...I saw a man holding up a sign,
It read, please help me I have'nt got a dime.
I stopped to talk to him as he stood on the street.
he said please help me I have nothing to eat.
My heart felt heavy ......

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Categories: at my wits end, emotions, friendship, hero, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
My Dream Tree
...When I was young and hearty,
I once sowed a measly seed,
And saw with awe
the paltry seed grow into
a beautiful flowering tree
permeating all around
sweet fragrance
pleasing to the soul.

I likewise ......

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Categories: at my wits end, fantasy, silver,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What You Wish To Know
...When you see me cry don't be afraid
Sometimes dads emotions overflow
I know you wonder what's going on
There are things we don't want you to know

Perhaps we're wrong to insulate you
As parents we tr......

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Categories: at my wits end, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Thefortune Cookie
...I finished my Chinese meal all at once
 and stared at the cookies like some sort of dunce.
 
When I read my fortune I did not understand
 from the small piece of paper, I held in my hand.
 
It said t......

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Categories: at my wits end, friendship, funny, satire, day,
Form: Rhyme
Are You At Your Wits End
...they've been moments in life when you've felt that you were at your wits end
be it spiritually, financially or physically be it in a relationship with family or friends
tired of whenever you've bee......

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Categories: at my wits end, angst, faith, hope, inspirationalgod,
Form: Didactic
Wishing To Drift Away
...the clock speeding away every tock is a  slap in the face
1am and then 2am and yet your nowhere to be seen 
worry eats at me like a moth to a cloth and anger is deep with in
the fire of it just wa......

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Categories: at my wits end, sonme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Solitude
...From inside myself I feel in humility
That wondrous sense of awe within my mind,
A special transcendence into tranquillity.

My memories rise to the surface to remind,
I’ve lost reality in the s......

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Categories: at my wits end, family, introspection, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Son of A
...How does someone do that
just pretend to care
mess with someones mind 
then just disappear

Just stay away unless 
well unless you really care
stop messing with me please

I could never hurt someone
......

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Categories: at my wits end, sad, me,
Form: Blank verse
I Had Nowhere To Go But God
...I Had Nowhere to Go…  But God!

Lost and lonely, I was often bewildered.
There were life’s problems I shouldered.

I was empty inside and at my “wits end.”
There was no one around when I needed......

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Categories: at my wits end, faith, god, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry