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Best Sympathies Poems

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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...

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Categories: sympathies, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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© 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.
Masked...

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

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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...

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Categories: sympathies, flower, love, proposal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Tramp Persona
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 controversies
Charlie Chaplin how...

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

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

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Categories: sympathies, grave, heaven, love, memory,
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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Categories: sympathies, love,
Form: Blank verse
Waking Up In Heaven
Waking 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 Carry
I 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
Delicate Crimson
The blazing heat  e x h a u s t e d 
           ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sympathies, dark, deep, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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