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Best Helplessly Poems

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Screaming At the Sky
Screaming at the Sky
 
Mothers screaming mournfully at a deaf sky
holding their heads helplessly as they cry
pitiful tears for innocent, defenseless children slaughtered
in fatal cross...

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Categories: helplessly, children, drug, grief, hurt,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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Categories: helplessly, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflections In Silence - Moon and I
Battling the instabilities of reality.
Behind daylight's closed doors.
Imaginary chains keep me captive.

White walls decorated with 
silhouettes of suppressed shadows -
disappear, upon the sight of twilight.

Alone,...

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Categories: helplessly, analogy, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The D Word
Sitting and gazing at the world through the window.

Silence is broken with whistles of wind, 
rustling through lifeless leaves.
As specks of rain trickle down panes...

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Categories: helplessly, angst, relationship, sick,
Form: Free verse
When Love Bites
Something about you

Makes me want to do

Things I’ve never dreamt before


It’s not the beauty of your eyes

Nor the magic of your smile

That lures me to...

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Categories: helplessly, love, lust, magic,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: helplessly, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: helplessly, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
In Her Absence
Here I am once more...smoking 
..on the balcony of my dreams.
My heart’s beating gestures of love...pulsating,
...deserted in the darkness of lust.

Ardent thoughts conquer my mind,...

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Categories: helplessly, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethereal Epiphany
When rainstorm shadows
cast raven woven blankets,
entangling between 
the boundaries of 
fantasy and reality's reach,
we search for soft glows
from serenades of slumber,
where we embrace
the quilt of...

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Categories: helplessly, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Special Rose
She sits and rocks, so gently back and forth
Her chin leaning heavily on her chest.
In her hands she cradles, one flat waxed rose
And sighs as...

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Categories: helplessly, grandparents, lonely, love, old,
Form: Narrative
How I Miss You
I miss you 
With every longing breath
That pants in sweet silence.
With every insatiable spark 
that ignites my being
And with infinite tears of all my life
That...

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Categories: helplessly, passion, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Distant Shores
Atlantic storms had taken the main mast
For seven weeks we drifted helplessly
Fresh water and food were running out fast
There was talk below deck of mutiny.

Hunger,...

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Categories: helplessly, sea, storm, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Lost Forever In a Portrait of Love
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“Pristine your pose, exposed artistic allure” 

Canvas on easel waits patiently,
naked in formless thought
Inviting rapture’s brush strokes

“White on white destined pleadings”

Visions engulf watercolor yearnings
blending passion’s...

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Categories: helplessly, art, beauty, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Autumn Dream
How beautiful it was in September -
a winsome wind,
the reverencing trees,
leaves talking -
this day – my autumn dream.
In sunlight’s brilliancy,
an autumn stroll
by the sea.
My sweet...

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Categories: helplessly, lost love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Not Without a Washer
Something minute had been carefully tucked away, it was a nut
Got loose, rolled helplessly away, had no direction afraid, she shut
Her eyes, and slowly rolled...

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Categories: helplessly, time,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs