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Best Moan Poems

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


Premium Member She Wept In Languished Moan
She wept as they buried her one true love.
Each day thereafter she brought him a rose,
the flower she knew he was fondest of.
Her grief unbearable,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moan, bereavement,
Form: Quintain (English)



Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moan, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: moan, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: moan, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Flame
PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

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Categories: moan, life, light,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Passion In Black and White - POTD - Erotic Verse
POTD 7th Mar 2018

I trust you like the music video clip which enhances the poem

Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste...

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Categories: moan, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member summer rain -
I wade into the surf and stand alone

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Categories: moan, bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form: Rhyme
In Lieu of the Rodeo
Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
	That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
	I’ll...

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Categories: moan, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shades of My Gloom
In vertigo of night, in their riddled trance 
Boldness of petals melt on washed-out shades,
As faces etch a quiet gloom in varied hues
Capturing splashed oil,...

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Categories: moan, art, color, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Poe and I
Poe's darkness calls to such as I, an ember,
a velvet covered wing chair's grasp on dark nights.
I seek the maudlin moan of his December
to nurse...

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Categories: moan, lonely, lost love,
Form: Rispetto
The Viking - Repost
Glory and honour oh man of the North
Valhalla waits to welcome thee
Spend a night of passion with thy Lady
For tomorrow death or conquest await

Come into...

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Categories: moan, death, dream, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Garden
High shadows loom on garden walls.
They tremble in the winter’s breeze.
As from the heavens powder falls,
they mimic naked limbs of trees.

They tremble in the winter’s...

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Categories: moan, winter,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Depth of Passion's Kiss
I woke trembling on the threshold of dawn 
as dappled sunlight through my window shone 
Upon my primed canvas there had been drawn 
a masculine...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moan, desire, kiss,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member I Lay Me Down
(For Dad ... I love you and miss you, and time doesn't help)

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Categories: moan, death, father son, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Falling From the Heights
FALLING FROM THE HEIGHTS

Who knew the road would fill with gravel’s pain?
My feet, sore bare, beneath the calloused peat.
The sun beat hard, no friend the...

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Categories: moan, death,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things