Best Wasteland Poems
Below are the all-time best Wasteland poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wasteland poems written by PoetrySoup members
Rising From Out of This Cold Frozen Wastelandrising from out of this cold frozen wasteland—
a blanket white unfolds with pure hope and love
melting snowflakes on such a clear blue ocean
lying on...
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Categories:
wasteland, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
The Widow Among RosesThe widow among roses,
though a scent so sweet
she smells to near smile,
how red the vibrance of life
and soft the petals caress
her lonely cheek,
she remembers...
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Categories:
wasteland, death, depression, lost love,
Form:
Classicism
Silence of the ButterfliesAs sunrise silently
marinaded morningtide meadows,
our lips flowed like two streams,
merging within an exclusive estuary
so we set home upon the river bed.
At first we floated like...
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Categories:
wasteland, grief, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
One Step Away From EternityAlas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...
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Categories:
wasteland, death, lost love, sad
Form:
Sonnet
BecomeI close my weary eyes
I quake and tremble
The meaning of life losing its hold,
Losing its wonder
In this magnifying, mystifying Sadness
Where is the river,
Where is...
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Categories:
wasteland, age, crush, earth, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Mist On the Barrows***Dedicated to a wise old man
I once knew***
-----" There is no such thing
as death..."
...
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Categories:
wasteland, death, friend,
Form:
Classicism
Arctic Seasoned Disguise~
Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty
Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...
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Categories:
wasteland, good night,
Form:
Free verse
Gyspy SoulRestless, roving soul
needing, reaching, grasping
aching, antsy, anxious
impatient since birth
my soul is a gypsy
wandering the earth
I delve the depths
for spiritual solace,
that place of rest-
scouting rough terrain
searching,...
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Categories:
wasteland, faith, feelings, imagery, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
A Slave's CryStranded in this place
I cannot recognize
Abandoned and lonely
No one hears my cries
AS i walk through this wasteland
Of wilderness and desolation
I am consumed with anguish
I walk...
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Categories:
wasteland, abuse, angst, black african
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ragnarok: the StormWith the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle
In the forest crows the...
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Categories:
wasteland, weather,
Form:
Epyllion
AftermathAFTERMATH
War is final but incomplete,
bodies littered like spent ammunition
along the ravaged bloody street.
But who hears the voices of condemnation
on profit-only Wall Street?
In the dirt...
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Categories:
wasteland, war,
Form:
Rhyme
DeathDeath
Words rip through the night sky
They conspire to tear a hole through reality
A reality created in your eyes
Taped tightly to your mouth is a bill...
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Categories:
wasteland, depressionnight, night,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
wasteland, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter WildflowerWinter Wildflower
A billion snowflakes do collect upon a wasteland of neglect
The sky frigid no sun to reflect appears a dot lonely specked
A tear does fall...
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Categories:
wasteland, beautiful, cool, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
The Winter MakerThis should be against the laws of nature
Heavy snow in late March should be banned
Just when our anxious hearts start to lighten
This blast creates another...
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Categories:
wasteland, winter,
Form:
Rhyme