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Best Pitiful 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: pitiful, children, drug, grief, hurt,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Winter's Tale
Biting winds and swirling flakes of snow had finally abated

We surveyed the deep drifts, which lay on the fields
The silvery moon peeped through the clouds...

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Categories: pitiful, animal, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: pitiful, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Poet Warrior
My Dear Enemy
Here I am
In full armor
My quill is full of arrows
My bow is taunt and ready fro battle
My horse is pristine and shiny black
I...

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Categories: pitiful, death, evil, image, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Bloom Not, Wolfsbane
Bloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind 

The girl was luscious in the...

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Categories: pitiful, adventure, angst, depression, devotion,
Form: Ballad



Mother
You were gone before my mind 
could grasp the brush which paints
faces on memory's canvas.
Vaguely, flashes of an open grave
on a sunny winter's day -...

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Categories: pitiful, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Good Riddance
I welcomed you twenty twenty, a brand spanking new year
But all you brought with you was death, misery and fear
So I'll be glad to see...

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Categories: pitiful, death, goodbye, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Teats of Love
From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life,...

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Categories: pitiful, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
Mournfully, My Heart Bleeds
I've written of great longing while my teardrops flare
Rhyming lines of sorrow that were nested in my mind
Tomes of poetry that exposed the depth of...

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Categories: pitiful, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Phantom of Love
All alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects,...

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Categories: pitiful, death, lust, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Weakness
GOD

Wondrous of many blessings.
Smiling never a frown.
My prayers, Lord, are  suddenly being ignored.
I've taken a tumble of  fallen down
Lord, my life was plain...

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Categories: pitiful, absence, abuse, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Vanishing Organ
Sam Ebenezer
a sad ol' geezer
was lamenting his shrinkage of late:
my worthless ding-a-ling
is a bell without ring
my manhood in diminishing state
 
From whence I salute
is thin...

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Categories: pitiful, funny, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)

Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they...

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Categories: pitiful, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Cat Lady
The cat rules our house, and she has us well trained:
We jump at the sound of her slightest complaint.
The day starts at six when I...

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Categories: pitiful, cat,
Form: Couplet
Mysterious Ways: a True Christmas Story
A true story, based on family oral tradition
from the oldest part of the city of Bern,
capitol of Switzerland, where my mother was
born and raised, in...

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Categories: pitiful, devotion, faith, holiday, inspirationalhouse,
Form: Rhyme

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