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Best Lament Poems

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


Premium Member Without Lament
I have no sorrow, for sorrow is small,
And can't be held guilty for choices made.
Reflections are scrawled on my mind's dark wall,
And will leave stains...

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Categories: lament, introspection,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Love's Lament
She lovingly smiles at him each evening
dressed in palest silk, a gossamer gown,
brushed with hints of silverdust shadows.
Her shapely fullness casts a womanly glow
across his...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, desire, moon, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: lament, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Goodbye
I forgot myself today
as melancholic melodies 
overwhelm each beat
of my wandering heart.

The sanctimonious sun deceives
as a bitter breeze breathes
against sullen silent surfaces.

Recycled emotions penetrate
with a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, absence, i miss you,
Form: Prose
Premium Member In Her Reflection I Am Poetry
Mind will always dream,
eyes will endlessly gaze,
lips will remain impatient.

Although, I've not met her,
the heart is a battleground
of anguish and angst.
Its cries, seeking the serenity
of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, love, romance, romantic love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and Sadness
Walking upon silent parched paths,
under speechless scarlet skies.
Your name sits upon the tip of my tongue,
listening to the susurration of my heart.
Each vibration echoes tones...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, love, romantic love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member summer rain -
I wade into the surf and stand alone

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Categories: lament, bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...

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Categories: lament, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If This Was the Last
i remember all of our first times
all of our poems

i've always been safer in air
yet you kept me afloat in rushing tides
but
without your beautiful silhouette...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, angst, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: lament, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Season of Silence
When nature wilts into 
                  a colorless haven,...

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Categories: lament, life,
Form: Free verse
Obstacles
If e're we could move that mountain from between thee and me,
where would be lament or reason to grieve?
How remove the hollow from the tree,...

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Categories: lament, lovelost, autumn, lost,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When a Poet's Promise Dies
I tried to create a poetic dream,
to fulfill our promise,
but we became a victim 
to fate's wounding ways.

My flower garden lies in ruins,
suffering in silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unassailable Purity
Music and romance are camarilla comrades,
just like poems are my shield and arrows.
But not all lullabies of lovers,
harmonise like a street choir of angels.
If love...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lament, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Mango Fandango
Tongues of my temptress fire lick 
arousing your ardent artistic desire
if you dare  imagine me — the intensity
capture me, take your chance
I’ll love you,...

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Categories: lament, dance, emotions, imagery, imagination,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs