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
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou 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
When I Am NothingWhen 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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Categories:
helpless, angst, perspective, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear LuciferI 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
Categories:
helpless, emotions, how i feel,
Form:
Carpe Diem
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:
helpless, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
FloatingThe 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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Categories:
helpless, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form:
Free verse
AutumnalI 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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Categories:
helpless, analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form:
Personification
Categories:
helpless, beauty, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Silent InflictionsChildhood 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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Categories:
helpless, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Tissue Boxlike 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
Graveyard of PoetsThere'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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Categories:
helpless, analogy, death, lost,
Form:
Free verse
Your OceanI 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
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:
helpless, death, grandmother,
Form:
Free verse
Clerihew SoupI 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
Little Miss SpringThey 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