Best Sympathies Poems
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
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 floret.
Was I a fool to sow yo......
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Categories:
sympathies, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
sympathies, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form:
Alliteration
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
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
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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Categories:
sympathies, analogy, celebrity, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
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
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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Categories:
sympathies, angst, dark, death,
Form:
Free verse
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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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
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