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Best Sympathies Poems


Premium Member Tissue Box
...like 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 they felt compelled to come 

dozens c......

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Categories: sympathies, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Garden of a Wounded Soul
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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 floret.
Was I a fool to sow yo......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sympathies, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lockdown
...Solitary 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.
Ma......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sympathies, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member In Praise of All Old Friends
...Of 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 deference.
Their hopes are ours, ours their own; 
All vict......

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Categories: sympathies, day, friend, heart, old,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Bunch of Jonquils
...You never forget your first love.  by poet



How can I ever forget my lovely first love.
    Spring vivifies blossoms with dancing hues
    As we were picking jonquils wild,
From cur......

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Categories: sympathies, flower, love, proposal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tramp Persona -POTW
...The 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 controvers......

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sympathies, analogy, celebrity, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In Memoriam Quietly Always Close
...In Memoriam Quietly Always Close

Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
     Over the granite crosses and statues of cradling angels,
     Which stand in......

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Categories: sympathies, grave, heaven, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 betw......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sympathies, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moon Sighs
...Catching Moon Sighs

 
From time to time
as clouds pass
     — those  plumpted puffs — 
               touring  by 
…Out 
      from behind them
  a
  Night’s  lit
               Blink!
 ......

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Categories: sympathies, fantasy, imagery, imagination, light,
Form: Free verse
Nothing But Apathy
...I have no stars left to count, no scarlet lilies left to pick and in my aching sympathies I find apathetic desires. Mother nature brought her introvenient shame withering all willows weeping. Aba......

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sympathies, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For My Mother
...Every 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 stops to spin 

Teardrops can't mend your heart's sorrow 
As if......

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Categories: sympathies, hope,
Form: Rhyme
No Crocodile Tears, Dear
...No 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 I’ve often felt.
Tears cause in me no butterfli......

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Categories: sympathies, humor, husband, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Down the Block
...living 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 her laughter shatters the air
my voice and humor h......

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Categories: sympathies, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member When Savages Sang Strongly 4
...Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know 
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh......

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Categories: sympathies, heart,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
This Business of Kidnapping
...There has been news about piracy in the high seas...
And here is news about a nefarious activity you don't see...

People go missing in action off the waters of Philippines...
And then the cat an......

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Categories: sympathies, betrayal, community, environment, international,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things