Best Wasting Away Poems
Below are the all-time best Wasting Away poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wasting away poems written by PoetrySoup members
UnicornLike the UNICORN
At times I fear I am the mysterious of all animals
Like the Unicorn, I myself do not feel real
My inner beauty is the...
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Categories:
wasting away, beauty, depression, horse, life,
Form:
Light Verse
The Poet and Thee Greatest Poem Never SpokeWAIT!
the poet laughed
there's love to document
there's passion, there's hate!
WAIT!
where's my pen, my typer?
my life is my art
Living passed by and the world did it's...
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Categories:
wasting away, death, life, poets, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Imagine, After ForeverIt is all the words lost, the swirling, the
missing dates and this slow evil poison filling me
and the darkness is creeping, creeping closer each day.
Give...
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Categories:
wasting away, lost, memory,
Form:
Acrostic
To Weak To CryWhen I think of the plight that children face all over the world
I just want to cry
Hunger starts and ends their everyday
As many of us...
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Categories:
wasting away, death, family, food, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Emotional Euthanasia
Got such sharp pain in my heart,
feels like it will never go away
I'm dying on the inside,
sadness eating at my soul like a cancer
Boxes full...
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Categories:
wasting away, emotions, love hurts, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Anorexia NervosaA child
No more than 12 years old
Sees images of women
Thin
Beautiful
Rich
Wanted
She looks in the mirror
She doesn't see the image
Her body doesn't fit the mold
Movies, TV and...
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Categories:
wasting away, angst, childhood, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
Our Grandmother's BlessingsSo many trials seem to be filled up with so much fear
So many ask, “Oh Dear Lord, what am I doing here”?
So many questions that...
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Categories:
wasting away, dedication, devotion, faith, family,
Form:
Couplet
Melancholic MelodiesSurrounded by strange blank faces,
pianist plays a medley of melancholic melodies,
magnifying our sorrows, as we close our eyes.
Just one more, before I leave,
yet I...
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Categories:
wasting away, deep, emotions, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Liaison Dangereuse
“liaison dangereuse”
Tear a thin line
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips
no nurses gloves
down my neck
along my throat
with something
sharp like words
on a tongue
like I’m
one of the...
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Categories:
wasting away, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
BiteBite
Money too much, children’s laughter;
Fall apart beneath the moonlight.
Make me cry tears of blood, ever after;
I think I want to die tonight.
Dog bite scar puts...
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Categories:
wasting away, creation, dog, love,
Form:
I do not know?
Don'T Even Think ItIt’s midnight and I’m alone downstairs
I hope she’s sleeping, I’ve said my prayers
Now I’m walking like I’m in a dream
Sneak in the kitchen for some...
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Categories:
wasting away, food, funnywoman,
Form:
Light Verse
For What Its WorthMy heart is yours
For what its worth
It beautiful and cruel
and it misleads many with lovers eyes
to follow what they believe are stars in...
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Categories:
wasting away, valentines day, heart, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Love Letters - 2 - a Collaboration With Michael Clarke-RepostLove Letters - 2 - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke-Repost
Love Letter No. 2...Janet Camden.
My most precious darlin' love I come to you across the many...
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Categories:
wasting away, devotion, longing, love,
Form:
Prose
Life Is a Leaf That Blows On the Breezei'm being blown
over here, over there
in and out, there about
most everywhere
in the heat of the summer
in the chill of the freeze
life is a leaf that...
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Categories:
wasting away, life,
Form:
Rhyme
I Snapped(This is a fictional poem)
I've never been happy because I've endured one tragedy after another.
It began at the age of six when I lost my...
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Categories:
wasting away, death, husband, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse