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Best Cry Poems

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


Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: cry, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: cry, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I

When daylight shuts her weary eye;

Down the streets where beggars sleep

And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.

On streets that...

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Categories: cry, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member More Worse When I Cry
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Teacher said my decisions needed consequences.
I have to write a million gazillion sorry sentences.
Billy was stupid to tease...

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Categories: cry, abuse, childhood, emotions, father,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Soul’s Cry
Another lost noon, 
engraved as unforgettable 
memoirs within my mind, 
I’m rethinking of rewriting
and rewinding revoked 
reflections of a love rekindled. 
My eager heart
is now...

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Categories: cry, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet's Cry
Wanting to leave a small footprint when  I die
I often ask myself that age old question "why?"
When the mask I wore is stripped away...

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Categories: cry, introspection, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
                             ...

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Categories: cry, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Why Must I Cry
I come to the garden along, while the dew is still fresh
on the meadows. Early in the morning do the bird's sing
praises of roses and...

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Categories: cry, devotion, inspirational, recovery from...,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: cry, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: cry, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Umbrella
*I Will Cry*

If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?

I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...

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Categories: beautiful, cry, rain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dry Mascara
DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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Categories: cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Crying River
Crying River (The Untold Ballad) 

Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...

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Categories: beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member - Haiku X 62 - Deep Wounded -
deep wounds that leave scars
    one moment much more must flow -
    shadows from the soul

   ...

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Categories: cry, hurt,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Categories: cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry