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Best Complained Poems

Below are the all-time best Complained poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of complained 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: complained, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: complained, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: complained, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: complained, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Long-Suffering Wife
Believing that marriage was ordained of God; 
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing, 
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope 
that stretched...

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Categories: complained, forgiveness, husband, wifehusband, marriage,
Form: Narrative



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: complained, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Warts and All
Warts and all

She made a mistake 
when she kissed  a toad
No castle or carriage 
She chose a rough road
He had a few warts
he wasn't...

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Categories: complained, appreciation, i love you,
Form: Quatrain
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: complained, anxiety, art, depression, suicide,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Dr Suess and His Shoe Store
"I  LIKE NONSENSE, IT WAKES UP THE BRAIN CELLS!"
               ...

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Categories: complained, children, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Unselfish Love
I was blessed to know a woman in my life
Who faced hard times, struggle, and strife.
A Chinese immigrant, she came from a poor town
Lost her...

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Categories: complained, dedication, family, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme
I Once Was a Soldier
1.
Why do we persecute this Jesus?
this Palestinian Jew, with claim
to one almighty God?
Ahh! let me home, it’s all too
much, and no avail.

so I Longinus, leader...

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Categories: complained, jesus, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Death Becomes Art
There, on a sill of contentious decisions
Glass shards sit waiting a wavering hand
Reflective the memories wrapped ‘round the curtains
Lost in a pane that she can’t...

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Categories: complained, death, depression, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Inspirations
In a moment of understandable frustration with me,
My wife demanded to know what I really believed in.
I thought for a minute, tear glands filling,
"The essential...

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Categories: complained, father, inspiration, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mirror Must Be the Trowel
Your words lance through to bone, acid sizzling into every hole
I haven't filled in, yet I dig, and ponder, and dig, filling in.

I still rock...

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Categories: complained, angstchildren, me, children, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dark Side of Canada
I do not have to go far away
 but just look within canada     to see
there is starvation    ...

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Categories: complained, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs