Best Sympathy Poems
Below are the all-time best Sympathy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sympathy poems written by PoetrySoup members
Sympathy - In Black And White
Nothing is ever black and white,
Definitely,
...I think.
Who am I to speak - zip it...
...
...for now.
I'm not going to lose my head over it.
Well...
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Categories:
sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
PLEASE~PLEASE~
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song!
Don't worry mommy,...
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Categories:
sympathy, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Winter's AntidoteO Winter, why this desolation? Trees, once verdant now stand bare
Flowers, long in hibernation; clouds that frown with ominous stare,
Bleak winds chill the rain-soaked bones...
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Categories:
sympathy, bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
This GirlThis girl, she's crying inside,
But all everyone sees is smiles,
This girl, she's hurting inside,
She's lived like this for quite a while,
Always holding her pain inside,...
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Categories:
life, people, sympathy, teen,
Form:
Free verse
AcceptanceOpened like a morning leaf
exposed beneath the moon,
Resting in the tentacles
of a clouded ink coccoon.
Wringing hands now rest at peace-
the solitude of night,
a lantern in...
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Categories:
inspirational, introspection, peace, sympathy,
Form:
Blank verse
A Story to TellA heart read and quoted by many in this lifetime
Battle scars that remain and yet shielded by a peace of mind
Walked several miles and traveled...
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Categories:
dedication, friendship, life, sympathy,
Form:
Narrative
You Cry Alone"laugh and the world laughs with you,
cry and you cry alone"
how true and sad these words once penned
for this I've learned, yet learn again
that when...
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Categories:
mental illness, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Treasure Of GivingThe thing with giving is Expectation...
The treasure of giving is the giving itself without expecting anything in return.
A loan creates dependency, inequality.
***
I
bend over
and...
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Categories:
sympathy, care, caregiving, feelings, love,
Form:
Free verse
Peircing Silence, Screaming Thoughts...Here in my room,
I lay in my bed,
With every thought of you,
Intruding my head,
Like snapshots in my brain,
Of the last thing you said,
My gut is...
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Categories:
lost love, love, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Open Sores
I am a coward with open sores.
I write and wonder who it bores.
I hear my heart and mind argue repeatedly.
I see others...
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Categories:
sympathy, allegory, angst, art, dedication,
Form:
Acrostic
The One-Legged SandpiperI saw a one-legged Sandpiper
today on the beach.
I saw him land on his single pedestal,
it was an artful thing.
Entranced by his disability,
I stood transfixed with...
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Categories:
sympathy, animal, appreciation, bird, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
Dying, we awake to eternal life.His fragile fevered brow is soaked with life’s sweat
Nearing the end, his death has not arrived just yet
Shivering, his body is on fire, he makes...
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Categories:
sympathy, death, faith, friendship, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Haikusummer downpour
the poor man takes off his hat
collecting diamonds
For Andrea's Summer Short Forms Contest...
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Categories:
sympathy, beautiful, beauty, happy, nature,
Form:
Haiku
A Greener PastureThough my stall here is empty now
If you listen close...
You can hear me running through a greener pasture
Your sorrow opens the gate and releases me...
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Categories:
sympathy, absence, animal, christian, death,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For Sam CookeDecember 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...
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Categories:
sympathy, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Slowly DyingI'm overcome with grief
as I slowly die inside.
They tell me this is normal,
and everything will be alright.
I can't seem to eat a meal,
or close...
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Categories:
sympathy, death, depression, loss, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Diamond left to Rust“I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”
Rumi
When the whole world,
behaved like her enemy,
a homeless heart...
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Categories:
assonance, feelings, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
COUNT YOUR FRIENDS
It is not the number of enemies that one should count in his life
but the number of friends that are willing to help him in...
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Categories:
friend, sympathy,
Form:
Couplet
Another One Shuts Down - corona virus editionAnother One Shuts Down (Corona virus version)
Gates and boards and reels of wire
Garbage by the gates
Driveway overgrown with grass
The factory is a state
Security checks once...
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Categories:
sympathy, business, community, society, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
A Monoku in Red
a compassionate moon _ absorbing the suffering of innocents
A Monoku contest hosted by James Edward Lee Sr.
Based on Picture 3
Placed 2nd
7th April, 2018
...
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Categories:
red, sorrow, sympathy,
Form:
Monoku
Audouin's HungerHad a thought a moment ago, just before I broke your aura'd wing,
trapped here, forever, within Audouin's vast crater alone and pining.
Starved for...
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Categories:
sympathy, flower, heart, heaven, loneliness,
Form:
Verse
FrazzledTeach and study, cook and clean
Write a poem in between
All the chores and daily life
Perfect Mom, half decent wife
Work and work and dream and dream
Scrub...
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Categories:
crazy, funny, sympathy,
Form:
Lyric
SchoolWhy does a child have to go to school?
Why do we have to spend so much time working?
This seems simply cruel.
Isn't it just irking?
Some people...
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Categories:
sympathy, child, childhood, family, humorous,
Form:
Sonnet
Prostitution I do not belong to your affluent society,
nor do I live at your mercy
A victim of social circumstances.
You sell your art and I bank on...
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Categories:
social, sympathy, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Bill
R.I.P. William Dale Eubanks
d. July 1, 2012, aged 68 yrs., Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
Death came as no surprise
the first Sunday in July;
it claimed you, on a...
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Categories:
sympathy, courage, death, dedication, farewell,
Form:
Free verse