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Best Dismally Poems

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Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dismally, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: dismally, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme
Imposter Syndrome
We see ourselves unimpeded initially 

Some are stricken with a view artificially 

We are told by others very specifically

There is a ceiling so proceed timidly

We...

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Categories: dismally, psychological,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh

Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...

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Categories: dismally, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh -
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to...

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Categories: dismally, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member War and Peace In the Time of Love's Retribution
"War and Peace in the Days of Love’s Retribution"



All is fair 
in Love and War
they say 

Lost are the
gambling angels
who walk tight ropes

from the point...

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Categories: dismally, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Nature
"Join hands to sweep clean of all dirt and preserve the pristine beauty of Nature to enhance the quality of living. If not, fear her...

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Categories: dismally, abuse, beauty, home, nature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Fading
Written: September 19, 2023

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dismally, analogy, appreciation, fate, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Trip of My Life
the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in...

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Categories: dismally, travel,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Life On the Prairie
Sifting through prairie dust, letting it fall towards more of the same.
The great visions I had for this place now seem trite and foolish.
I dismally...

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Categories: dismally, blessing, hope, irony, nature,
Form: Sijo
Weeping Widows
Endlessly the widows weep
For their adored lovers lost
To their final, eternal sleep;
This is wars cost.

The reasoning for their loss they can’t dispel,
For in reality there’s...

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Categories: dismally, death, husband, war,
Form: Rhyme
Muse
Infinitely I long for 
Someone to write a song for. 
Dismally I claim to be
Content with being lonely. 
Pitifully I fake my glee
While my sorrow...

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© Bo Vigoren  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dismally, confusion, depression, heartbreak, how
Form: Romanticism
Soulful Scream
Tearing my soul asunder, a silent scream
A piteous one as in some dreadful dream,    
In a deep sleep but still very much...

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Categories: dismally, angst, dark, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deviant Taunts
Upon the horizon darkness loomed
mocking the shadows in my heart
Love was doomed, dismally abused
Emotions bleeding out
Have I succumbed to malaise and died
If there's a faint...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dismally, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Janus Face - 1290
“I hold a delightful being and an undesirable being inside of me. 
            ...

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Categories: dismally, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs