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Best Despaired Poems

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Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: despaired, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse



Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: despaired, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
I Refuse To Count Sillybulls
There once was a poet who despaired
though blessed with a fair amount of flair
that he was way too thick
to master limericks
counting words an arduous affair...

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Categories: despaired, light, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
          ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despaired, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Allow Me To Dream Your Dreams
Allow me ~ to be your dream of dawning
When song of love the robins are singing
While rustles of trees whisper to soft winds
And golden morning...

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Categories: despaired, love,
Form: Verse



What About the Children
Downward marriage falls seeking some relief
Children follow awkwardly, senses moan
Husband and wife acting out of belief
Three children entering chambers unknown

Locked in battle, the wife reaches...

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Categories: despaired, children, divorce, hurt, husband,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Signs of Me
I pause to breach this final night we share
To leave a darker rose among the wheat
A single bloom to mark, though unaware
Of vanishing with the...

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Categories: despaired, death, goodbye, love, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Memoriam For Donald B Buchanan
Who will weep for my noble prince? Who will cry
With belly swollen with sorrow, and tears long
As the Black River? Who will hear the clouds...

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Categories: despaired, death, faith, friendshipdeath, death,
Form: Elegy
Careless
I slept
full of hope and dreams
I awoke 
empty and forgotten
Careless as I was back then

Morning sounds
swirling in my ears
Pointless thoughts
filling my head

"She can."
but will she...

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Categories: despaired, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection, lost
Form: Free verse
Sedated Hope
The age of premonition and belief in false speculations…
A firm believer of the grace now devoted to inelegance…
All it stated was an untainted fib…
Darkened fiend...

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Categories: despaired, hope, dream, dream, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Repristination
Extolling rebirth, dreams pristine cajole,
Resurgence to tranquility of frozen knoll,
Longing verdant-realms to enliven its soul
Where wintry-decay exacted dreary toll.

When warmth glistens avid golden rays
Glinting gloominess...

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Categories: despaired, inspirational, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Despair
He despaired. He was despondent and desperate.
He was impelled to violent action but restrained from acting out.
He had finally given up. He had lost all...

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© Ed Coet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despaired, angst, depression, satire,
Form: Narrative
Crushed
Fragile are crisp clean lines that edge an invisible thread
Carelessly crushed beneath the unknown forceful dead

Efforts of gripping the reality through truthful grief pained wash
Casual...

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Categories: despaired, america, car, community, culture,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Christmas Spirit Vi
Christmas is here my friends, rejoice!

Let us be inspired by the coming of

Little Jesus

And

Let us incarnate the spirit of His love

By:

Feeding the poor

  Sheltering...

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Categories: despaired, christmas, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Where You Are
Across the miles to where you are
beyond the highways, however far
chasing love inside my dreams
daring to believe you were there for me
even if I may...

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Categories: despaired, conflict, eve, youth,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Shattered Sighs