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Best Despond Poems

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Premium Member A Despond
Some
greet the
morning light-
others cry at
night-
some 
look in
a mirror-
see an unloved
child-
will
hope stay
all alone
in Pandora's
box....

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Categories: despond, angst, hurt, poetry,
Form: Lanterne



Premium Member Look Ahead
When breathless pain of sorrow 

                   ...

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Categories: despond, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shameless
So many weep from pleasure or from pain
and raise their invocations to the sky.
I watch them from the corner of my eye.
Their exhibitions I would...

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Categories: despond, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Downcast In the Rain
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Categories: despond, imagery, missing you, rain,
Form: Rondeau
My Glass To Grace
Should we lament our days in the sun
       No longer to fare but linger in shadow
Remembering glow of supple...

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Categories: despond, age, life, remember, youth,
Form: Free verse



The House On Fire
It has been standing here forlorn:
Now a burning house on fire;
None’s here to rush or shout for help:
There’s None for it a crier…

A gloomy place...

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Categories: despond, death, mystery, nostalgia, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Elemental As a Storm
A force  far deeper than our anger

Elemental as a storm

Annihilating all before it

Terror makes man’s rage perform.

This  force saying self is threatened

Runs to...

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Categories: despond, anger, beach, bullying, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Two Halves
As two halves make a whole
I feel a friendship about to unroll
You see the darkest parts of my soul
In which I have no control

As I...

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Categories: despond, friendship, hope
Form: Rhyme
Evermore Away
EVERMORE AWAY:
Sorry I have made a repetitive effort
To hurt you’re helping everybody.
I longing for you, to really see you,
Look intently withering
With be you while I...

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Categories: despond, confusion, feelings, loneliness,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Dotage
Despond,despair then decline,
Whilst wiser one recall:
Days are numbered for us all.

Inching ,ever unregarded,
The relentless timebelt turns;
Days are numbered for us all.

Reminiscing days of old,
Stories of...

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Categories: despond, death, introspection, people, time,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member The Silent Comment
The Silent Comment




              No,you cannot hear it, as it
   ...

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Categories: despond, encouraging, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Comedic Redemption
COMEDIC REDEMPTION

Once when that black ice cloud chilled me again
In mind and heart, it froze all aspiration
Taking me below resentment fear or pain
To a hopeless...

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Categories: despond, depression, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Open the Floodgates
OPEN THE FLOODGATES

For weeks I’d suffered writer’s block,
Devoid of inspiration.
I couldn’t think of what to write. 
I was close to desperation.

Rhymezone wouldn’t accept my rhymes,
My...

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Categories: despond, inspiration, muse,
Form: Rhyme
The Potter
No time to write a sonnet 
Tip of my tongue not rehearsed
Might be time spent useless
But that’s ok here’s the verse
In the water you set...

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Categories: despond, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, character,
Form: Rhyme
Boredom
Like termites surface from the clod, out of the blue,
Or like small snails creeping out without any clue; 
Boredom dwells in my psyche like a...

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Categories: despond, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs