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Best Lamentation Poems

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Premium Member Simply Time To Go, a Little Brother's Lamentation
Too hard for me to say goodbye
For all apparent reasons why
Even though we all know it must be
Each heart will someday stop the beat
When the...

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Categories: lamentation, brother, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lamentation
Lamentation

born among the travelers of her day  
she played in the sandpile with Woody Guthrie 
sung in the chorus with Allen Ginsberg 
walked in...

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Categories: lamentation, america, conflict, feelings, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Lamentation of a Wounded Soul
Each night, bitter tears flood my cheeks,
none of my former lovers are there
to offer comfort.
My friends have betrayed me
despising me as they turn deadly enemies.


I'm...

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Categories: lamentation, anger, conflict, confusion, dark,
Form: Light Verse
An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: lamentation, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Through Deep Darkness Unable To Steer
It was deep dark, silence roaming outside
if I couldn't see and hear, it is  myself to chide
the urge within pushed my fright aside
time to...

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Categories: lamentation, beauty, deep, destiny, friendship
Form: Rhyme



A New Year
I heard the chimes at twelve o'clock
Ring in a brand new year;
And beyond the noise of all the news
I listened hard to hear.
A chorus of...

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Categories: lamentation, holiday, peace, peace,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish It Could Be
This emptiness within surrounds the insides
Penetrating my sorrows, I see the light
A light so faded and sad…as if it knows my lamentation
This light dies to...

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Categories: lamentation, appreciation, blue, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Last Words of Jesus
I.Jesus Spoke to His Father

Jesus spoke to His Heavenly Father
Raising up to heaven His ardent pray’r
With deep bleeding wounds that he’d all endured,
Still hang on...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lamentation, celebration,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Yoga In Poem - a Novel Approach 01 of Many
Yoga in Poem - A novel attempt 01/ Many

YOGA is a priceless gift given by great ancient Indian 
saints for every human being through Vedas....

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Categories: lamentation, happiness, health, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Smile of Paradise
A  bleeding heart sent me to bed
Tormented hot, by a lover's deception;
And in the folds of my blanket, cold as wet,
I sighed into sleep...

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Categories: lamentation, lovewords, heart, heart, me,
Form: Pastoral
Growing Pians
GROWING PAINS

It’s all about pain, frustration, tears. Fears, it’s all about fighting temptation
Watch the sun rise and set to the darkest thoughts of contemplation
My heart...

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Categories: lamentation, abuse, anger, break up,
Form: I do not know?
Unto Golgotha
I stood amidst the maddening crowds

 drowned in cries of disarray....

 Something about this gentle captive

 Encouraged me to stay.

 Through the crimson rivets flowing

...

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Categories: lamentation, faith, religion, god, god,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member O, the Weeping
Unfathomable is my lamentation and melancholy,
     Boundless and infinite this inconsolable heart;
So chaotic are yesterday's bittersweet memories,
    ...

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Categories: lamentation, death, sad,
Form: Verse
Black Marmalade
Slicing the instinct
The arcane was torn, curses spit
Teardrop bated as the breath hunts
Wound wide open, the heart cries

The ripple of pain unable to stem
The cimmerian...

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Categories: lamentation, dark, life,
Form: Free verse
Life Story
"Who wrote dese legs?" Said Milligan in Puckoon *
As he surveyed his nether limbs with distaste and dismay
While Jessica Rabbit gave the protest of every...

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Categories: lamentation, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs