Best Pathos Poems

Nobody observes her leaving her room
wearing just her nightdress and red felt carpet slippers
Shuffling silently she slips out of the front door onto the street
Rivulets of rain start to soak her to the skin
Her straggly hair hangs down limply
It becomes so matted and twisted 
Soon...

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(this is a sonnet kyrielle, which uses line 1 and 4
of the first stanza in a final couplet)

To want to look away. . . And yet to look!
To read with dread the ending of a book.
A paradox it is; a mystery.
How sweet the pathos of...

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so brief flowering
sakura* will bloom again-
covering the pain

*cherry
tribute haiku for Debbie's  contest...

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These tears work well their Machiavellian craft.
They blur my vision, clog my nostrils
like a vice, constrict my voice and finally
confound my countenance,
debauch my dignity,

I'll have no more of them!
This faithless wash is ended
with a firmer grasp upon a solid staff
of reason, my defense
when sentiment and...

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Chameleon, this tongue.
Coloring words to convey
emotion's spectrum....

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I find no solace living in the past
Nor want to dwell for their companion's need
As most will drift away until the last
Except for those I want I'll intercede
Chronicles have chosen a path to guide
And not to place a shrine on passing ground
Nor shine a lamp...

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A wooden flute,

              I glimpsed among my mother’s treasured keepsakes,
                      ...

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You PATHOS,

That fill our hearts and our souls with

The tempestuous desire to

Live in full every moment

By: 

Expressing each of our thoughts, 

Developing every one of our ideas 

And 

Performing all of our acts with

The intensity that divinity has
 
Intended us to,
 
We pray to you,...

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In Teapa he now makes his home
After his journey from the states
Trouble caused his heart to roam
And sorrows filled his plate

One friend asked him about the gun
And what he planned to do that night
He said he’d do what must be done
And anger blurred his sight

He...

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I make a mockery of the chasm
I exult in my sarcastic enthusiasm
The space between us causes
A sweet reunion amidst the pauses
I feel a vicarious, carnal avidity 
Awakening within me a certain lucidity,
An impetus to slake my yearning
To adorn my heart with your returning
Though I know...

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PATHOS

Every time I have to do something for you,
an overwhelming sadness envelopes me.
It’s been eight months since you passed,
I still have not shed a tear, there is none.

I did most of the things needed in arranging
your memorial service; but could not do a tribute
for you...

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easier than seems
getting lost within our dreams
is this what it means
to exist on this planet
bit more conscious than granite

the fear of being
where there's no guaranteeing
things we're believing
like the gods in the heavens
evil is caused by devils

amid the chaos
hold tight what is dear to most
entertain old...

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Death-like phantom, pathos, so dusk dark, seems to be calling,
Though not dry, like autumn leaves, in dreams, I feel like falling;
Where do all these illusions, like morning mushrooms, spring from?
Where do illnesses, like termites in weaker wood, fast germ?

Pathos peeps from the soul, like a...

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Predatory lions,
    Prowl through the savanna,
    Patiently hunting prey.
    Powerful carnivores,
    Pursuing their quarry.
    Pandemoniums cull
    Plays out, until they kill.



    

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Two Freaks

Two freaks sat by the side of the road.
Ostracized by all their kin.
People laughed as they passed by;
At the very sight of them.

One was twisted in body and soul;
With hair like a dandelion.
The other sat quoting sonnets of old;
He was quite diseased of mind.

One...

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