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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


Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be 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



Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through 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
Premium Member In Woes and Throes of Sorrow
I 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
Premium Member Black Sunday 21st October 2018
Twenty 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
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dismay, death, grandmother,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tapestry of Twinkling Torment collaboration with Hiya Sharma
When 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
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In 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
Premium Member A Home Sweet Home
At 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
Premium Member 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 Bridge
Into 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
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I 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
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 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
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 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 Garden
My 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

Book: Shattered Sighs