Best Desperately Poems
Below are the all-time best Desperately poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of desperately poems written by PoetrySoup members
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou 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:
desperately, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Goodbye(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)
I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...
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Categories:
desperately, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form:
Free verse
Winter's Afterglowstars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.
she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...
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Categories:
desperately, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the...
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Categories:
desperately, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
As Fields Become BarrenWhat has become of me?
Like a madman laughing in the rain,
wandering through fields of barley,
where ghosts whisper my name.
Hesitantly venturing forward,
reluctant to turn back,
loved ones...
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Categories:
desperately, analogy, death,
Form:
Prose
September 1945red rooftops appear to glow in rainy-day haze
lost in memories of pre-war bliss
she looks up to watch them bleed
pain is...
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Categories:
desperately, longing, war,
Form:
Free verse
The InvitationDecember 25th- The Christmas Wedding
Head-to-head,
Surrounded by seasonal silver bells
Scarlet passionate pink poinsettias sit
Foliage scenery
Entwined by Christmas and Wedding bliss
Frosty winter weather warmed up...
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Categories:
desperately, anger, celebration, christmas, december,
Form:
Epic
Behind the SmileJust another sinking tear
In this river full of pain
Racing fast to nowhere
A world that's gone insane
Hope committed suicide
Before I had the chance
Forced to live without...
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Categories:
desperately, angst, betrayal, break up,
Form:
Lyric
An Eternity IStood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
desperately, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
My Muse and IHey dear muse, come out from behind that chair,
You can’t hide from me for your hair is too fair,
And I desperately need your input, creativity...
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Categories:
desperately, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
I Look To the MoonI look to the Moon, hanging aloft
Among the clouds so milky soft.
How must it feel, so high above?
So chilled and bleak and void of love.
Collapsed...
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Categories:
desperately, depression, loss, lost love,
Form:
Personification
Soul Mates SolaceWhen my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...
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Categories:
desperately, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...
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Categories:
desperately, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
It's Hard To SayNo
A small little word
And yet so hard to say
It tempts me to say
Maybe
Maybe I can make it work
I so desperately want to say yes
It hurts
Crushes...
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Categories:
desperately, courage, family, future,
Form:
Free verse
PathosNobody observes her leaving her room
wearing just her nightdress and red felt carpet slippers
Shuffling silently she slips out of the front door onto the street
Rivulets...
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Categories:
desperately, dark, memory, old, sad,
Form:
Free verse