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Best Troubles Poems

Below are the all-time best Troubles poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of troubles poems written by PoetrySoup members


Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troubles, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: troubles, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: troubles, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shepherd Who Forgot His Flock
It's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see

sometimes they bleed.

Some say words heal,
but I resist to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troubles, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: troubles, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: troubles, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form: Free verse
August Rains
The steadily falling cold August rains
Continue to pour upon Cheshires lanes;
Over flattening fields of soddened wheat,
Soaking the grass, splashing the feet.

Stands the Combine in the...

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Categories: troubles, august, nature, poetry, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Caress My Soul Sweet Poet
Love's tend'rest touch, your gentle words reveal
Caress my soul. sweet poet, with your verse
Write dulcet lullabies which make me feel
Secure, like infants held at breast...

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Categories: troubles, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
She Calls Me Home
She Calls Me Home…

At days long end
Left on troubles shore
When I just know
I can't take anymore
When the last light
Of hope is gone

She calls me home
She...

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Categories: troubles, angst, caregiving, childhood, devotion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Kind Hello
Proverb 12:25  "Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up."


a stray lost
in her thoughts

i saw her
sitting there
nursing a frown

so i
reached...

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Categories: troubles, cheer up, lonely, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Within Her Heart
Within her heart is where I wish to be
To dwell inside the garden of her soul
Where each soft heartbeat plays a symphony
And all around is...

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Categories: troubles, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
A Life In Sepia and Watercolours
When I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped...

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Categories: troubles, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Shadows
Our shadows were so restless
As we passed from room to room;
They pretended to be living
But they died within their tomb

 They shrank a little bit...

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Categories: troubles, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Categories: troubles, inspirational, nature,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: troubles, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things