Best Dismay Poems
Below are the all-time best Dismay poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dismay poems written by PoetrySoup members
Be the Flame of CompassionBe the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...
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Categories:
dismay, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
dismay, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
In Woes and Throes of SorrowI rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.
Neglected now, heartstrings'...
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Categories:
dismay, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form:
Sonnet
Black Sunday 21st October 2018Twenty first of October in two thousand and eighteen
Was the worst disaster poetry soup had seen
Poems wiped off the website as all the poets slept
When...
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Categories:
dismay, computer, humor, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Mamma Still Calls Your Name
It was like the sun did not rise
and mourning birds sang
no morning melody.
The heavens were so grey,
pouring like Noah's floods,
preparing me for the storm,
which...
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Categories:
dismay, death, grandmother,
Form:
Free verse
Tapestry of Twinkling Torment collaboration with Hiya SharmaWhen you are
an agonizing
echo from a
benevolent voice,
life exhales in
mahogany haze,
spreading across the
lachrymose meadows as
scarred rivulets of
sandalwood scents,
where ceramic
rhymes slumber...
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Categories:
dismay, muse,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T BreatheIn memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.
Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone...
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Categories:
dismay, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
A Home Sweet HomeAt long day’s end, our thoughts may stray
to where we long to wend our way-
a peaceful place where we dismiss
all things in life...
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Categories:
dismay, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Because I Live“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than today.”
A...
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Categories:
dismay, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Notes of Life"In my fragile little ship, I sail, sail
In the tempestuous sea of life
Dodging life's pressures, to doldrums outlast"~ by poet
Breathing in and out the notes...
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Categories:
dismay, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Blood Stained BridgeInto the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...
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Categories:
dismay, allegory,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Instincts of InnocenceI reflect upon a word -
Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...
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Categories:
dismay, innocence, religion,
Form:
Prose
A Friendly GoodbyePoem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano
he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes
that...
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Categories:
dismay, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...
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Categories:
dismay, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
My Poetry GardenMy poetry garden of late has lain untended and forlorn.
I succumbed to shock and dismay upon entering recently, for I observed that
great disagreement had erupted...
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Categories:
dismay, garden,
Form:
Narrative