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Best World Of Hurt Poems

Below are the all-time best World Of Hurt poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of world of hurt poems written by PoetrySoup members


Things I Have Learned
Don’t take a walk after a large glass of tea

If someone says, “sure take as many as you want” 
They probably don’t mean it

Darling you...

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Categories: world of hurt, funny
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mask We Wear
The Mask I wear is of a Comedian
Not showing the world I hurt
For when you laugh or cry looks the same
Sarcasm is rooted in pain.

The...

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Categories: world of hurt, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ghazal Form Poetry Contest--Crystalline River Meditations
“The crystalline river in her generous curves shines blue amidst the leafy green inviting the soul to contemplation. She is a sanctuary and keeper of...

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Categories: world of hurt, introspection, meaningful, river, water,
Form: Ghazal
How Shall I Write For You Tonight
How shall I write for you tonight

when the words don't seem to flow?

I could write about the moon and the stars

and how, to you, they...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world of hurt, for her, love, tribute,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Only Relief You Know
Emotional scars can cut deep,
manipulating how you feel.
And at night, when you try to sleep,
phantom tears suddenly turn real.

Everything seems so surreal,
when demons empower the...

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Categories: world of hurt, abuse, angst, depression, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Cliche Heaven
Cliche Heaven

Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
    and address the elephant in the room soon when...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world of hurt, confusion, cool, crazy, satire,
Form: Free verse
Fibromyalgia
No one knows the pain and struggle
we go through every hour of every
day 
We are survivors that most others
can definitely truly never say 
Our daily...

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© Tammy Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world of hurt, education,
Form: Limerick
A Place In Time
in the masquerading dawn
sun rising slowly across the lawn
all the dreams from the night before
don’t really matter anymore

coffee clears my foggy brain
and those old thoughts...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world of hurt, confusion,
Form: Ballad
On Best Behavior
On Best Behavior 

Stock market pervert
Ended up loosing our shirt
In a world of hurt.

Am incompetent
Tell me what you may have meant
How much money spent

May be...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world of hurt, adventure,
Form: Haiku
Jimmy the Tube
JIMMY THE TUBE

Here's the story of Jimmy the Tube
who greased his mind with stupid lube.
He watched TV day and night
end result he wasn't bright.

While watching...

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Categories: world of hurt, parody, planet,
Form: Couplet
Depression
It’s normal to feel a dark cloud’s shadow
Rise above us every once and a while; 
And to feel as though the sun has faded
Behind a...

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Categories: world of hurt, abuse, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
I Have Always Loved You
For my wife Marcia,

I have always loved you

I have always loved you
Before there was a way 
After there was no way
I have always loved you

Before...

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Categories: world of hurt, appreciation, destiny, devotion, love,
Form: Lyric
Voice Inside My Head
'twas in a room in Blandford, on a bright spring day
When a voice within my head a whispering, whispering to my dismay
For the voice grew...

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Categories: world of hurt, liferain, voice, poets, rain,
Form: Narrative
Everything Isn'T Okay
Everyone says everything will be okay 

But I know nothing is okay nothing is right 

The pain is killing me each second 

Kill me it...

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Categories: world of hurt, death, depression, happy, life,
Form: List
Manic Depression
Tonight is ending. As my breath slows. My final demise. The final low blow.
 Learn from the broken. See all that's real. Tonight is your...

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Categories: world of hurt, abuse, childhood, corruption, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs