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Best Despondently Poems

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Approaching Storm
Skulking between the thinning clumps 
Of tattered sedge
A balding coot despondently calls,
Scratching Blackbirds scutter deeply 
Into a Hawthorn hedge;
Whilst, creeping stealthily,
Gathering darkness onwardly crawls.

The blackened...

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Categories: despondently, weather,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Want To Go
I want to go
where there's no pain
and all I feel
Is gentle rain
I want to go
where flowers bloom
and cheerful sun
does banish gloom
I want to go
where words...

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Categories: despondently, death,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Mist
Through the Mist

It feels like a lifetime has passed since my beloved I last saw,
Bedecked in shining armor, my brave Geoffrey did gallantly gallop,
Riding his...

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Categories: despondently, allusion, fantasy, heartbroken, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Despondent Moon
Oh, sad moon,
you float
alone
in what used to be,
your cloud nine,
looking down
despondently
at me.
I remember
your illuminating glow,
so gleeful at twilight.
I remember
the smile
you wore yesterday
when billions
of your friends
shared...

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Categories: despondently, allegory, imagery, loneliness, moon,
Form: Free verse
Life Doesn'T Have To Be So Bad
I can still hear the strumming of your mesmerizing guitar
And your soft, angelic voice captures me afar
I miss the times we used to dance around...

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Categories: despondently, angst, art, dedication, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Don'T Worry
Once upon a time,
The Orange & Pink Dragon
Popped out of nowhere, 
Blowing pink flames in all directions. 
The Shapeless Robot walked down the street 
With...

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Categories: despondently, change, emotions, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Verse
Beloved Companions -Part 3-
Days passed and still we did not take him 
I was angry at everyone and stayed near his side
 But one day he had disappeared...

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Categories: despondently, absence, animal, beauty, change,
Form: Ode
A Look At Myself
He strives for improvement, never reaches his goals
A young male struggling strong foes
His whole life considered inadequate
Life is dull, and his heart he should quit

Taken...

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Categories: despondently, depression, life, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
I Guess So
When we were young,
I held my long tongue
Foolishly sheepish 
Life is a sea full of fish

Good times spent with you mindlessly 
Boy, I don't feel...

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Categories: despondently, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only I Could
In the whispering breeze I hear the birds sing
for you as the sunburst sky flushes your face.
How endearingly attractive you are then to me, 
mesmerized...

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Categories: despondently, analogy, desire, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Though a Democrat
Unblinking reflexive opinions lean
     indubitably, favorably and certifiably
     with minimal pandering soliciting
     uber...

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Categories: despondently, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Swan Song
My Love, lest I grow weary of the wait
And get entangled in a web of hate,
My longing’s driving me swooning insane
My cruel maiden! Save me...

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Categories: despondently, angst,
Form: Rhyme
The Templed Heart
You've lost your mate one decade gone,
a longshoreman who bode his time
upon the seas from dusk till dawn.

Knew every route, when he should climb
the towering...

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Categories: despondently, bereavement, boat, depression, hurt,
Form: Terza Rima
A Bad Day
Once in a while I wish I could dial
The day back to right where it started.
I’d then reconcile with things that did rile
And left me...

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Categories: despondently, today,
Form: Rhyme
'she'Et
When I was a boy I repudiated you
Your cooties chased you out the crew
The innocence across the playground blew

I ran and ran and ran

Later I...

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Categories: despondently, emotions, feelings, growth, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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