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Best Woefulness Poems


Premium Member The Wall
...Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
wall......

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woefulness, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme
Elbbabohcysp
...There's a place whence children dwell amid

fairy stories, popcorn rainbows & candied unicorns,

which is fine & dandy except when

you're supposed to be a grown-ass adult,

some p......

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woefulness, crazy, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Imagism
The Withdrawing Room
...Unrhymed tercets

The Withdrawing Room

Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 

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Categories: woefulness, abortion, bereavement, courage, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Withdrawing Room
...Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 


Daunting without exit the silent screams ......

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Categories: woefulness, abortion, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Free Cee Just Another Jerk and Junkie
...ONE DAY IN MAY

I didn’t hear the call that day
Instead I chose to fall away
I didn’t care what it had to say
Instead I chose to join the fray

It was a humid day in May that year
When a call......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, day, day,
Form: Quatrain
The Adverse World Complete
...I can’t stand getting worse and worse by the fast-paced minute
So, set me free from me, colliding and breaking bit by bit
Show me the way in which I should go, Lord of Light
Show me the day in whi......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, endurance, hope,
Form: Free verse



An Adverse World
...   (I love you as a person,
But I hate being your son
I feel intense hatred nevertheless
Because of your doings that has put me in this distress mess...
I'm making progress,
Hardl......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, conflict, courage, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee
...NO FREEDOM FOUND FOR  FOOLS

The three of us knew what we were doing
We also knew what we were doing was wrong
What we didn’t know was that trouble was brewing
But numbers made us all feel strong

We......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Friendships Fervor By Er Haider Khan
...My mood made me rude,
My dude soothed my mood;

All right all my nights dude,
Your loneliness makes a day grudge;

Let the world burn outside,
Let’s remember nobody outside;

Insanity makes ......

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Categories: woefulness, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee No Freedom Found For Fouls This Is Truly Worth Reading
...NO FREEDOM FOUND FOR  FOOLS

The three of us knew what we were doing
We also knew what we were doing was wrong
What we didn’t know was that trouble was brewing
But numbers made us all feel stron......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
Pump On, Lest Death May Play Its Part
...Pump on, lest death may play its part,
with weight of sin or righteousness.
It is not ours, this beating heart.

Indeed, when schemes may fall apart,
though souls be gripped by frightfulness.
P......

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Categories: woefulness, imagery, life, wisdom,
Form: Villanelle
The Adverse World
...I sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better ......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
I Sail Ashore a Silent War
...I sail ashore a silent war

Shattered regret all the more
Angst sinks deep down ashore
Isolated like remnants of hatred to the core
Lonesome as a lazy lion in the streets of nothingness

And s......

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Categories: woefulness, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Acrostic
Baby, Illuminate Me
...Have mercy on my breaking, aching heart of impure lamentation
Consumed in iniquity and now, I’m in shards of devastation
Baby, illuminate me by my side and yesterday, you were around
Happiness as ......

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Categories: woefulness, emotions, encouraging, endurance, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Free Cee As I Strolled Past the Past
...AS I STROLLED PAST THE PAST

I saw a soul so seductive
A wild woman with wile
Meeting her would have been counter-productive
Because I am a fool given to guile

She strolled by me with a stimu......

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Categories: woefulness, angst, me, woman, me,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things