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Best Pitying Poems

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


Premium Member Caring For My Mother - a Letter To a Loving Friend
I sit here alone...wondering...how much longer this...and in hearing 
the question a silent icy fear blankets my body...the answer would 
come wearing both masks...tragedy...comedy...this is my life....

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Categories: pitying, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"



A writer writes of people 
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all

like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors...

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Categories: pitying, depression, family, friendship, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sing No Canticle For Me
I hardly noticed the first tiny crack, 
through the deluge of tears I cried.
Perhaps too numb to feel the sting of pain
or the fissure exposing...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitying, courage, emotions, strength,
Form: Free verse
Mom's Grace
Thank you Ma, for not imposing your thoughts on me
You let me listen to myself.

Thank you Ma, for not thrusting your beliefs on me,
You let...

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Categories: pitying, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
No Surrender
Ive danced with the devil a thousand times,
disowned my family and commited crimes,
lost relationships and lived on the street,
and still i would not accept defeat.

Ive...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitying, hope, life, life, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Her Only Way Out
Rejected
Defected
A hopeless case
Lost, drifting
Vanished without a trace
Sorrowing, woeful
Mired in despair
Anguished
Frustrated 
Tearing out fistfuls of her hair
Lonely, yearning
Trapped in solitude
Hoping for a pitying hand
To raise her...

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Categories: pitying, angst, death, sad
Form: Free verse
A Panda,Away From Home
Children give me pitying stares,                    ...

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Categories: pitying, animal, sad,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Happy Valentines Day , Or
 Happy Valentines Day ... or for the rest of us
              ...

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Categories: pitying, humor, valentines day,
Form: Couplet
My Heart Is Poinsettia Red
My heart is poinsettia red,
You have filled it with Your own dear blood,
My love in return to all others spread,
None do You exclude, tho you...

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Categories: pitying, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Self
Dear Self,

I'm oh so sorry I let you down, so many uncountable times
Sorry I ignored your cries and pretended I didn't hear them, though they...

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© Omar Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitying, hope, inspirational, life, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Whips of History - 3
We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering...

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Categories: pitying, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Harmony of Diversity
Should you fear the difference in me
Should you fear the depth of my essence
Should you fear the unfamiliar personality
The independent nature, the unusual originality
Pray, lower...

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Categories: pitying, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Meet On the Upper Floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was...

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Categories: pitying, beauty, change, emotions, friendship
Form: Narrative
I Wish She Were Dead
I wish she were dead

If she were dead
May be then i could have
Had enjoyed her lie by me
As deep nights surround us.

If she were dead
May...

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Categories: pitying, break up, death, i
Form: Lyric
Two Delhi Monuments
KUTUB MINAR

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        ...

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Categories: pitying, history,
Form: Shape

Book: Shattered Sighs