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Best Helpless Poems

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


Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: helpless, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative



Premium Member When I Am Nothing
When I am nothing, a no one,
when nobody remembers my name -
will you give me a purpose to remain?

When I can no longer run,
will you...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helpless, angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: helpless, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helpless, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Northern Slaves
In 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: helpless, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helpless, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helpless, analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification
To Love What Is Beautiful
It’s easy to love what is beautiful
                  ...

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Categories: helpless, beauty, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silent Inflictions
Childhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind

the ocean a mysterious enigma.

Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helpless, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: helpless, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helpless, analogy, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Ocean
I stand on the edge of your ocean, ready to dive in
Wanting to discover the depths of you
I have looked at the surface of you
Beautiful...

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Categories: helpless, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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: helpless, death, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Soup
I tell you I like, that Wayland a bunch
He'd be the guy, to be there in a crunch
Not afraid of humor, he paves the way
With...

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Categories: helpless, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Little Miss Spring
They say it's a time to slip in the mud, and begin anew.
Kick off the dust of yester ...
      and...

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Categories: helpless, adventure, appreciation, beauty, crazy,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things