Best Woes Poems
Below are the all-time best Woes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of woes poems written by PoetrySoup members
In Woes and Throes of SorrowI rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.
Neglected now, heartstrings'...
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Categories:
woes, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form:
Sonnet
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
woes, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
woes, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Vanilla VisionsWhen the
moon muses
to the
melody of memories,
roaming wisps
of vanilla gently
flow through
...
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Categories:
woes, death, deep, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Of Passions I OwnSensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...
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Categories:
woes, muse, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Waltz With Every SeasonUndulate on burbling rivers rushing to meet sea,
Buoying spring’s hilarity, ceding to summer’s plea;
Marvel on wings of autumn as falling colors spree,
Rejoice pristine snowflakes adulating...
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Categories:
woes, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Final FarewellTo my life that betrayed the butterflies~
within my chrysalis mind,
forgive my flawed dialect,
I...
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Categories:
woes, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Orchid Oxymorons"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...
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Categories:
woes, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
His Day Had ComeHis day had come, and so He went and prayed.
The woes of all mankind upon him weighed.
His brethren slept; He knew what would befall.
His enemies...
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Categories:
woes, christian, easter,
Form:
Rondeau
Let Me Be the OneWhen fallacious friends fail and break you in two
let me be the one-
to help you feel worthy and whole
And when slithering serpents slander your name
let...
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Categories:
woes, friend,
Form:
Verse
Forgotten Soul
I turn my head, and there she is once more
in her disheveled, worn, and tattered dress,
one pew behind me near the exit door-
she sits head...
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Categories:
woes, emotions, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
A Poet With a Priceless PenI am poet with a priceless pen
born to burnish the beauty of men.
I wonder what mortal mirrors reflect...
For me, all races deserve respect.
I often hear...
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Categories:
woes, analogy, poetry, poets,
Form:
Couplet
Me,Myself and IWhen me and myself
Are feeling sadness
I sit down to chat
With the both of them
Finding the reasons
For their troubled minds
We have time to chat
I would speak...
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Categories:
woes, image, people,
Form:
Free verse
It's Great To Be AliveWrinkles and gray hair
get me in a rage
and I say to myself,
“Why don't you act your age!"
My poor aching feet
remind me to wear sensible shoes
but...
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Categories:
woes, age, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around. ...
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Categories:
woes, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme