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Woeful Vows
"Till death us do part"
Thus I stepped upon a trap;
Oh, Why I said that?
Now I wail to no avail,
Lo, my life is in shambles!



~A Brian...

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Categories: woeful, grief, marriage,
Form: Tanka
A Woeful Winter Dirge
Comes winter with its icy blast 
Across the land thy death shadow cast
Life purged by thy soulless wind 
With thy sting of death thou doest...

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Categories: woeful, death, seasons, death, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hail To the Knight of Woeful Countenance
Hail to the Knight of Woeful Countenance, 
the impossible dream with lance in hand.
Alonzo had dreamed, dreams of ambiance.

Knight, Don Quixote, rose in allegiance
The man...

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Categories: woeful, adventure, art, dream, dream,
Form: Villanelle



A Woeful Family 2k12
Herein the throes of our family's tragedy,
Herein our woeful daze, we're not the defeated
Nor victors; Simply the bearer's of tragedy.
Yes, Jonas was here; Thence we're...

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Categories: woeful, confusion, death, family, life,
Form: Quatrain
Philosophical Poetry Week: Woeful Wednesday
Sorrow at the state of the world
So much sadness simply hurled
At the TV, and life as we know it
Still has yet to be unfurled.

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woeful, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Woeful - Sg
The hushed cemetery green,
where birds sing doleful;
and thoughts weave labyrinthine,
oh, woeful, woeful.
Yet, sun is divine,
caressing my fallen tears
serenity ... mine.

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June 21, 2021


Poetry/Sequidilla/Rhyme/Woeful
Copyright Protected, ID 06-1265-878-21
All...

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Categories: woeful, grief, peace,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Woeful Girl's Prayer
Oh, hear this woeful girl's prayer,
    such a deep sorrow sigh;
will this heart ever stop hurting,
  to Heaven these tears fly.

For...

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Categories: woeful, life,
Form: Free verse
Philosophical Poetry Week: Woeful Wednesday
Wednesday’s woe has come again
Washing o’er my longing brain
All the way down the long dark drain.
Sat on a bench with naught to gain,
I stare on...

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Categories: woeful, depression, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Woeful Year
Farewell, thou woeful year,
Of your woes I got my full share
And grieved my heart in pain and care

But now, of your days, I have spend...

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Categories: woeful, farewell,
Form: ABC
Woeful Victory
(Lizzie Siddall, the Pre-Raphaelite artist's
model, has just married Dante Gabriel
Rossetti ... and now regrets it.)

Why could it not have been agreeable?
What steered me down this...

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Categories: woeful, marriage,
Form: Sonnet
Predation In Woeful Times
Predation In Woeful Times
By Roy Merritt

Life is getting ghastly now
For few it seems sublime
Everyone engrossed with thoughts
Of predation in woeful times

In times like this trust...

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Categories: woeful, anxiety, environment, fear, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woeful Hearts
Satan's spawns
Blast Angels to hell - 
Virgin spirits rise with
Burning sun melting
Woeful hearts...

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Categories: woeful, angel, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Woeful Prayer
 
Oh, hear this woeful girl's prayer,
    such a deep sorrow sigh;
will this heart ever stop hurting,
  to Heaven these tears...

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Categories: woeful, grief,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Woeful Winter
Winter - dreary, ever so cold and lonely
Wishing, hoping, suddenly gone...if only
Bear it, now that nobody cares to share it
Shivering, chilled and barren

Homestead -party, lavishly...

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Categories: woeful, death, heartbreak, winter,
Form: Sapphic stanza