Best Desperate Poems
Below are the all-time best Desperate poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of desperate poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick FormA desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.
Having always been...
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Categories:
desperate, adventure, wife,
Form:
Limerick
Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”
Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...
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Categories:
desperate, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and TeppoWaking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...
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Categories:
desperate, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote...
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Categories:
desperate, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Black CloakIt's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet"
If only our leaders would...
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Categories:
desperate, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Moonstones in Artless SkiesIt feels like the world
has been struck by a
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens
even brighter,
while...
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Categories:
desperate, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Diamond Cut"A Broken Demo"
In a desperate cry for help
She hires every jeweler
A cheap sheep crying, Wolf!
Using old repeating politic
utilizing lies * manipulation
To cover the Glass...
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Categories:
desperate, abuse, evil, leadership, political,
Form:
Free verse
This Was Meit began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...
i felt safe as...
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Categories:
desperate, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Out my windowthe moon swoons in enfolding arms of sky -
a glassed-out world I cannot touch,
seen through pain and this pane
my four sycamores, sick to the core...
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Categories:
desperate, depression, nature, symbolism, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Hope, a Little RemainedHope, A Little Remained
She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...
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Categories:
desperate, anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted TrailsSoul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today...
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Categories:
desperate, appreciation, beauty, creation, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I
Its birth a shake of...
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Categories:
desperate, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Soul of Seaside Sepulchre
When the
seaside sepulchre
of a kingdom,
without its queen,
is smeared with
screams of lighting,
I wish to crackle
these slivers
of silver shakle,
and...
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Categories:
desperate, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Now I Lay Me Down To SleepSoft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind
Crisp and cool is the linen...
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Categories:
desperate,
Form:
Free verse
IronbarHe 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:
desperate, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme