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


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: wept, bereavement,
Form: Quintain (English)



Even the Angels Wept
The day you died you took me with you,
The way you lied shook me black and blue.

The sorrow you felt, I sure felt it too,
The...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wept, angel, cry, depression, suicide,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When Heaven and Earth Wept
In camps, they’d slaved and starved; cold nights, they’d slept -

Each woman, man, and little girl and boy.

Relentless horror had around them crept.

In camps, they’d...

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Categories: wept, angel, war,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Umbrella
*I Will Cry*

If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?

I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...

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Categories: wept, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: wept, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto
I walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wept, beach, emotions,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member A Tear-Ful Conversation With My Daughter
It starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...

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Categories: wept, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
This Was Me
it began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...

i felt safe as...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wept, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: wept, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Humanity
Shadow not over the words of love
Love is a language known only to the heart
Hear it in the wind and the birds above
Paint it on...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wept, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: wept, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Sunday 21st October 2018
Twenty first of October in two thousand and eighteen
Was the worst disaster poetry soup had seen
Poems wiped off the website as all the poets slept
When...

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Categories: wept, computer, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Fragile Is Life
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Categories: wept, death, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'Ll Always Remember
I will always remember the moment we met.
(Haunting woodlands in springtime, your slim silhouette)
The glint in your eyes sparked a tempest at dawn
overwhelming the dreams...

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Categories: wept, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Were Just a Photo
Five years ago, to me, you were just a photo 
I had no idea who you were
Through your words and kindness 
We've become wonderful distant...

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Categories: wept, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs