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Best Complain Poems

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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: complain, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Nana's Hands
Through the years they worked their spells
     From drawers and cupboards, taking things
       That through...

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Categories: complain, appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: complain, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Voice
The Voice…

On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
     nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself...

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Categories: complain, imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Masnavi
Playground
Playground…

Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...

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Categories: complain, age, allusion, anger,
Form: Masnavi



Running With the Rain
Oh I love the sound of the rain
   a softly spoken spiraling sustain,
marathon runners against the grain
   all soon lost within...

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Categories: complain, fate, november, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yes,I Know I Won'T Be Here Forever
~Yes, I Know I Won't Be Here Forever~



       Sometimes, I just don't realize,
      ...

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Categories: complain, emotions,
Form: Lyric
An Unfolded Whisper
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A lilac endeavor
of promised importance
came strolling along
on a path in the sun
Its fragrance unfurling
this side of September
when springtime was singing
for winter was done
With meadowlarks chatting
in...

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Categories: complain, fun, garden,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To God
I wrote a letter to God and I had to ask why,
He allowed so much suffering and little people had to die?
One’s that had never...

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Categories: complain, confusion, devotion, faith, inspirationalme,
Form: Verse
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: complain, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
The Life Is
The Life Is …

The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not...

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Categories: complain, allusion, angst, life, old,
Form: Masnavi
My Parting Gifts
My Parting Gifts…

Goodbye, my son, my only king.
You are my love, your name I sing. 
My wish was more to be with you,
to be with...

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Categories: complain, father son, goodbye, hope,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Legion of Doom
howling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!

in packs behind...

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Categories: complain, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Diamonds
Diamonds

We all have so many diamonds that we own,
but we think of them as glass or bits of stone.
We often sell them as cheap pieces...

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Categories: complain, age, allusion,
Form: Rubaiyat
Cage of Glass
You don’t know me…
You don’t know my past…
If you did would you 
judge me for my pain so vast? 

Did you hear about 
that one...

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Categories: complain, abuse, child, courage, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs