Best Devastation Poems

I was reading in my study
On my desk a moth lay stunned,
It had flew into my lamp,   
I fear 'tis moribund.

It had fluttered around the room
Erratic in its flight,
Yet in all that empty space
It collided with my light.

I felt sad at its demise
As...

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deep darkness descends
damaging distant deserts
drought destroys dry dunes 

Written June 28, 2022 

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Anacreontic Verse

I’m feeling so blue.
My tears fall
drip, drip, drip.
Eyes bright red
as the deluge flows
unceasingly.
My broken heart aches
and cannot be fixed …
such intense pain
so deep inside.
Why did you leave me
all alone,
expecting me
to soldier on
without you?
I don’t need 
a photograph 
to see your face
as it is printed
indelibly
in...

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from utter ruin
nature creates such beauty-
spring birds in the trees


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November 8, 2012

Poetry/Haiku/from devastation
Copyright Protected, ID 11-4343-72-08
All Rights Reserved, 2012, Constance La France

Written for the contest, One Haiku Old/New
sponsor, Rick Parise, Judged 11/2012

Third Place...

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Ectopic it was
Crying 
Tormented my mind
Obstacle of hardship
Pain (that  is deep and buried within my soul)
Initial shock
Crushed

Precious gift was taken from me
Remembered( you will always be with me)
Endless emotions
Grieving (was all I could do)
Never  had the chance to hold you
Anger
Never to hear your...

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     Emotionally, a wrecked ship 
        Battered to smithereens.
          Tarred and feathered 
By the tempestuous ocean wave 
That is grief. Her faith in the Lord,
...

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I'm appalled and devastated about world hunger
A crisis that can't be overlooked
Signs are so rampant and wide spread
People are starving here in our nation

World governments won't take action
Red Cross and Peace Corps can only do so much
Children are dying, a fact so shameful
A global problem,...

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Life is a Devastation upon request,
When you live each moment like the rest.

Trying to fit in, 
Wearing a mask,
It's killing you inside, 
You have nowhere to hide.

As your heart falters, 
And your breathing stops,
You fall into the dark abyss.
Not knowing what's on the otherside,
Not caring...

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Schools, drive-byes, and churches shooting is this really what man is doing.
Pig livers, baboon hearts, Rowe v. Wade is this medical progress who is to say.
Physician assistance terminally ill is this murder or humane and good will.
Addicts, gays and lesbian ways ignorance created the disease...

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Like a hurricane 
Devastation over taking 
She kissed my soul 
Spun me around 

She is part of my prose
Within my special blue rose
At this instance wanting ice tea
On the beach, she was handing me

What I sought  
She was there for me devastatingly
She was the...

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"DEVASTATION"


Glenn Gould wrote countless
masterpieces.

I listen daily.

imagine if he had married, 
if he had had children, 
if he had listened to every 
piece of bull-**** given to 
him by the one that would 
claim she loved him.

imagine he had stopped 
composing because he was 
told he...

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Lying in my bed one night ,
I hear the quiet,
It does not feel at all right,
Something is about to take place,
In this disunited human race,
And then, the world that I knew,
Its comforts, my family, my dog,
My little pet frog,
My bicycle that took me
To school, No...

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My love has fled his earthly body
he slipped away in the night
and of course it's him I long to talk to
to make everything seem right

We only had five months of reconnecting
but it changed our worlds outright
I know its the happiest I have been in my...

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A shocking nightmare- the tornado arrived,
that early evening, Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
We were three miles away from our home-
yet, it took nearly two hours to find our way
through the maze of so many blocked roads.
Finally, we arrived via eerie darkness, where
shapeshifting shadows of destruction stood
beneath...

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The empty swing
swings gently
in the gentle
breeze that wafts
across the empty
playground park.
The dust in the foot-pans 
beneath the swings
lifts up in the breeze,
swirls and curls in
a spiral willy-nilly, willy-willy.
The town has all but died.
A tardy few die-hard's remain,
as they have no where else to go.
The salty...

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