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Best Weeping Poems

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


Premium Member Oh, Weeping Willow
                Oh, weeping willow - friend to me
  ...

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Categories: weeping, friendship, tree,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



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Categories: weeping, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways
1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and...

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Categories: weeping, love,
Form: List
Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: weeping, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Watcher
I watched a weeping willow
Dancing with a summer breeze
A timeless dance of lovers
They'd rehearsed for centuries

The zephyr would excite her
With his warm southwesterlies
She'd gently sway...

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Categories: weeping, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Some Hearts Can Never Be Tamed
Once when my soul spoke,
you betrayed every word.
Then your tongue promised
to only sing with sincerity.

I danced for a brief while, 
lost in your angelic orchestra.
Until...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: weeping, angst, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Wept In Languished Moan
She wept as they buried her one true love.
Each day thereafter she brought him a rose,
the flower she knew he was fondest of.
Her grief unbearable,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: weeping, bereavement,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Venus Gifts a Yarrow's Kiss
O, weeping willow shed your sorrow
on whispering breeze to soothe your grief
within whose breath's a healing yarrow
to whisk away tears upon your leaf.

Sweet rustling zephyr...

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Categories: weeping, emotions, heartbreak, hope, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humanity Keeps Bleeding
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: weeping, humanity, introspection, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: weeping, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall of the Willow's Leaf
Ah, weeping leaf I feel your grief 
as Autumn hides the sun in clouds; 
battalion’s shadow, like a thief, 
disguised in dark-sky nimbus shrouds 
have...

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Categories: weeping, angst, autumn, conflict, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If This Was the Last
i remember all of our first times
all of our poems

i've always been safer in air
yet you kept me afloat in rushing tides
but
without your beautiful silhouette...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: weeping, angst, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of Thistle Truth
seasons keep m o v i n g 
 and s w i r l i n g
memories keep f l o w i n...

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Categories: weeping, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Time Slips By
                 
 Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as...

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Categories: weeping, faith, love, time,
Form: Dizain
Whiteness
Winter frost on willow trees  
     Weeping tears of snow.  
Halos 'round the opal moon,
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Categories: weeping, tribute,
Form: Acrostic

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