Best Despair Poems
Below are the all-time best Despair poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of despair poems written by PoetrySoup members
Love Passing ByWhen the crimson rose has faded
And our day at last is done;
In the forest dark and shaded
Blows the tempest, dims the sun.
When the night holds...
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Categories:
despair, love, love, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
despair, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Be the Flame of CompassionBe the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...
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Categories:
despair, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poetry CollectionHourglass
Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass
Falling Down Stairs
Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...
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Categories:
despair, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
despair, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
despair, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
Hallelujah - From the Mouth of Babes - With Silent OneThe Guardian
Melodic lullabies echo
As heart strings strum secret chords
As transcendental images appear
Stargazers are lost for words
Kaleidoscopic Illuminations
Paint the sky in optimistic light
Hope descends in serene...
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Categories:
despair, anti bullying, courage, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
HopeHope is a song of bird
Reassuring forlorn dawn,
The nightmare is banished
And the dream is still alive
Hope is a Lotus flower
Drowning in the night
Yet, rising through...
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Categories:
despair, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Ethereal"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...
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Categories:
despair, assonance, death, loss,
Form:
Alliteration
There Is Still BeautyFriends, do not forget: there is still beauty
When the darkness comes and shadows fall,
Music, Art, and nature, gentle comforts
When despair is deep and hope is...
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Categories:
despair, dark, friendship, hope, sad,
Form:
Quatrain
Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi
I had heard the legend of...
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Categories:
despair, appreciation, love,
Form:
Epic
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress InkThe moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...
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Categories:
despair, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Northern SlavesIn the silent breathing of night,
treading through
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...
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Categories:
despair, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Willing,, a MiracleTo win is the trying..!' gainst despairs blank stare, a wounded earth still
rolls on..! Midst the throes of territorial vying..
Shows our shattered crystal the...
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Categories:
despair, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Breath of SunsetRoyal blue sky scattered sapphire clouds
On horizon embroidered in navy blue attire
Summoned by the onset of marigold sun
Emitting amber gold on tuscan yellow fire
Where...
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Categories:
despair, heartbreak, sunset,
Form:
Free verse