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Best Gloomiest Poems

Below are the all-time best Gloomiest poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gloomiest poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Writing Unwraps My Soul - Potd
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: gloomiest, life, writing,
Form: Free verse



As I Plot Just One More Day
I am immeasurably honoured to have been invited to collaborate with as fine a poet as Robert Lindley. Our first collaborative process has been very...

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Categories: gloomiest, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As I Plot Just One More Day
As I Plot Just One More Day

Desperate as the waking at blackest dawn
I seek only moments within eternity,
for the day upon me is long 
and...

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Categories: gloomiest, appreciation, art, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clouds Are the Personality of the Sky
Image: Cloud Fantasy, by Susan Lawrence

On spring's green carpet I repose, revitalizing the soul
passing slow minutes pondering the sky

The lake whispers a morning meditation
as memories...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gloomiest, art, nature,
Form: Free verse
::A Psalm To Jehovah::
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               On my hands and knees
     ...

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Categories: gloomiest, inspirational, thank you, uplifting,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Journey of Connection
In the gloomiest of nights
We navigate the unknown.
Bound by a shared purpose
Our hearts have grown.
 
Without talking, we survive.
I grunt and squeak.
She hints at an adventure.
Her...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gloomiest, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Black Cat
I've never ever in my life liked any cats,
I preferred to live, rather, amidst grain-field-rats;
And black cats, all the more, have remained omens, bad,
To see...

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Categories: gloomiest, life, love, nature, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Verity and Vanity
Written: September 15, 2023
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In a cosmic world where marvels dwell,
There lies a well where truth does swell.
Under the surface of the cultural tide,
Dissemination of erudition,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gloomiest, analogy, appreciation, character, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandchildren
A granddaughter is a joy
a real genuine treasure,
to make the heart sing
with unequaled pleasure.

Her smile can brighten
the gloomiest afternoon.
In her sweet presence
my heart becomes immune

to...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gloomiest, appreciation, god, granddaughter, grandson,
Form: Quatrain
Coffee With Them
I sit alone,
Rain peppering my coat,
I stare at the sky,
Gloomy, grey and sad,
Three words I never thought I would relate so much too,
But even in...

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Categories: gloomiest, for her, for him,
Form: I do not know?
Seriem - Succession
The land is bare;
hard rock and exposed outcrops 
lay open, like the pages of
an unread book for the story
of time is beheld by every
grain contained...

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Categories: gloomiest, nature, science, earth, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For a Gentle Soul
I listen to the silence of the twinkling stars, 
as they slowly fade in the early morning light.
Past misty mushroom crinoline clouds
Dawn winks through breathy...

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Categories: gloomiest, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Along the Water In Marseille
A charming town, with bobbing boats
And restaurants or small cafes,
Finds us all bundled in our coats 
On this, the gloomiest of days.

The rain, though, takes...

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Categories: gloomiest, city, image,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To a Black Butterfly
                    oh, black butterfly...

  ...

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Categories: gloomiest, appreciation, beauty, butterfly, imagery,
Form: Ode
Aye
I’d deem today as 
my gloomiest day ever
I feel doomed but nay
ill-fated but otherwise
aye, having a bad hair day!


04/13/16...

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Categories: gloomiest, day, hair,
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs