Best Sympathies Poems
Below are the all-time best Sympathies poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sympathies poems written by PoetrySoup members
Tissue Boxlike visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...
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Categories:
sympathies, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Garden of a Wounded Soul
Like an ebony rose in a province
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.
You were never just another...
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Categories:
sympathies, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
LockdownSolitary sun in sapphire skies,
beams its rays upon Earth's radiance.
A tepid breeze flows between
daffodils and bluebells, gently rocking.
Spring is in the air,
yet streets remain silent.
Masked...
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Categories:
sympathies, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form:
Alliteration
In Praise of All Old FriendsOf all old friends, those we have of old are best;
These the souls we travel with by preference,
Theirs the spirits to whom we grant all...
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Categories:
sympathies, day, friend, heart, old,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Bunch of JonquilsYou never forget your first love. by poet
How can I ever forget my lovely first love.
Spring vivifies blossoms with dancing...
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Categories:
sympathies, flower, love, proposal,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tramp PersonaThe Tramp Persona
Who was this boy, a pauper born?
Existing in despair and continual forlorn
Scandalized, accused of communist sympathies
Encompassing both adulation, and social controversies
Charlie Chaplin how...
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Categories:
sympathies, analogy, celebrity, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
Forgotten Entity
I'm breathing like the sun in black horizons,
but internal embers burn in invisible ignorance.
Tired from being constantly raped by life,
I've become ashamed of veiled emotions,
confused...
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Categories:
sympathies, angst, dark, death,
Form:
Free verse
In Memoriam Quietly Always CloseIn Memoriam Quietly Always Close
Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
Over the granite crosses and statues...
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Categories:
sympathies, grave, heaven, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Nothing But ApathyI have no stars left to count, no scarlet lilies left to pick and in my aching sympathies I find apathetic desires. Mother nature brought...
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Categories:
sympathies, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My MotherEvery small sore is numbing pain
As if morning can't see the rain
Every small touch on your light skin
Makes the world like it...
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Categories:
sympathies, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
No Crocodile Tears, DearNo dear, not for your sympathies to earn,
Nor yet that your attention can I draw,
Just as helpless infants are apt to do,
True, facing you helpless...
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Categories:
sympathies, humor, husband, wife,
Form:
Sonnet
Down the Blockliving down the block, I think of my Sheri
her beauty, her cares, her lovely hair
and when she thinks of me
we share our time sipping wines
and...
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Categories:
sympathies, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Waking Up In HeavenWaking up in Heaven
Her arms wide in open fields of green with loving lavender skies a beauty queen
With towering trees a scented scene admits reverberating...
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Categories:
sympathies, celebration, faith, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
The Things I CarryI carry the immense weight of potential with me.
I carry the knowledge that death exists, and that we are all born to die.
I carry the...
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Categories:
sympathies, courage, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
sympathies, dark, deep, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse