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Best Plight Poems

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


Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I

When daylight shuts her weary eye;

Down the streets where beggars sleep

And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.

On streets that...

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Categories: plight, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Ancient Warrior
I see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their...

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Categories: plight, angst, culture, native american,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Star-Crossed - For Love of Day, For Love of Night
(this is a form called Swap Quatrain, where first
line's phrases swap in the last line of each stanza)

In shadows’ veils, at end of night,
sweet Moon...

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Categories: plight, may, moon,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: plight, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: plight, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Flower Blooms
While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

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Categories: plight, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: plight, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fall of the Willow's Leaf
Ah, weeping leaf I feel your grief 
as Autumn hides the sun in clouds; 
battalion’s shadow, like a thief, 
disguised in dark-sky nimbus shrouds 
have...

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Categories: plight, angst, autumn, conflict, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Specters of Slaves
Nature trail extends for miles
Surrounded by wetlands and lakes
Each step I take brings me closer
To an old plantation, where I climb the stiles

For it was...

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Categories: plight, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: plight, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Praise of God
In Praise of God

I look to you for love and grace,
Trusting belief in you I place.
Please keep us safe within your sight.
I feel your presence...

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Categories: plight, devotion, god, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Wild Love
The blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.

" A love so true as...

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Categories: plight, garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Yes Dear Lol
YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...

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Categories: plight, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: plight, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Voice of Poetry
Adorable, enticing as beauteous glance,
Engaging, evocative as a ballet dance
Luring passions flaunting moody stance;
Poetry is music strumming from heart,
Lyrics of life emblazoned in poetic art.

It’s...

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Categories: plight, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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