Best Forlorn Poems
Below are the all-time best Forlorn poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of forlorn poems written by PoetrySoup members
In Strangler's WoodIn forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
silent shadows waver...
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Categories:
forlorn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Bother MeDon't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!
Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...
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Categories:
forlorn, community, funny, how i
Form:
Rhyme
BirthBIRTH
Once upon a moonlit night
There came a ray of magic light
That shone upon an orphan home
Where two small pumpkins left alone
To thirst and starve to...
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Categories:
forlorn, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
HopeHope is a song of bird
Reassuring forlorn dawn,
The nightmare is banished
And the dream is still alive
Hope is a Lotus flower
Drowning in the night
Yet, rising through...
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Categories:
forlorn, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To DewdropsYou hang there on the rise of dawn
Bending twigs where you cling,
Glistening gems on sunlit lawn,
Where I greet you before you're gone,
Before my passions forlorn...
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Categories:
forlorn, emotions, feelings, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
forlorn, happiness, miracle,
Form:
Personification
Star-Crossed - For Love of Day, For Love of Night(this is a form called Swap Quatrain, where first
line's phrases swap in the last line of each stanza)
In shadows’ veils, at end of night,
sweet Moon...
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Categories:
forlorn, may, moon,
Form:
Personification
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...
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Categories:
forlorn, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Of Passions I OwnSensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...
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Categories:
forlorn, muse, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?
Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware...
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Categories:
forlorn, romantic,
Form:
Ghazal
Northern SlavesIn the silent breathing of night,
treading through
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...
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Categories:
forlorn, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
forlorn, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Soothing SerenadesPained piano keys compose
a chorus-less composition.
Melancholic moods crave
to sway back and forth
like bluebells and lilies dancing,
when kissed by the morning breeze
Forlorn flute...
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Categories:
forlorn, analogy, deep, sad,
Form:
Alliteration
A Shout Into the VoidUpon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...
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Categories:
forlorn, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form:
Verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight...
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Categories:
forlorn, black love, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse