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Cheerless Poems - Poems about Cheerless

Premium Member watercress loving friend named Bess
...Bess’s expressions were grotesque Most usually weirdly cheerless She is under unusual duress Her family is an utter mess Bess is playing poker more or less Her deadpan expression not needless ......

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Categories: cheerless, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
The Wife's Lament
..."The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD, making it the oldest English poetry anthology. "The Wife......

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Categories: cheerless, husband, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse



A Prayer List
... Lord, I come to Thee with : lachrymose eyes sorrowful heart an empty lap a barren womb babe-yearning hands an open mind a wounded soul a silent cry a longing core heartfelt pra......

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Categories: cheerless, depression, prayer,
Form: List
Premium Member Beyond the Bars
...“A person who is remorseful over his past actions without any inclination to change just punishes himself. On the other hand, remorse with a desire to change is so constructive and will yield wonderf......

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Categories: cheerless, angst, betrayal, destiny,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Gemini Garden, Silent One
...“We are all petals of imperfection sharing the same sun.” - Silent One No one is flawless, So there’s no need to be cheerless, Our petals may not align, They’re s......

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Categories: cheerless, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Night and Day
...Night was covered in pitch darkness. Looked fearful without a ray of brightness. Through wilderness, moved beasts monstrous. Nature looked so terrifying and cheerless. After a night......

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Categories: cheerless, birth, day, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soon Winter
...Soon Winter Clouds Rounded mounds piled Ever higher and thicker Heavy, hang deep gray low — Threatening snow — If not tonight, then tomorrow — Over all here, upon this gurgling, burbling ......

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Categories: cheerless, imagery, light, river, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Solemn Bay
...solemn bay falling teardrops like rain from grey clouds of bane thunder rolls across the soulless bay lightning strikes a hearts shudder ......

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Categories: cheerless, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
..."Broken families beget culprits, and late remorse can never set things right" ~ By Poet. Scenes reel back casting dark shadows, Of the fated day I had to leave my home, Handcuffed and g......

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Categories: cheerless, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme
My Stroll In September
...It's the beginning of colorful Fall, many chilly days are expected ahead; tall pine trees don't heed the call, they are green and warmly dressed! Their slender images draw twitching shadows on......

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Categories: cheerless, beauty, emotions, guitar, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clouds
...Cottony, Cumulus Clouds dappled on blue can coalesce into banks; creating a dull, drab, cheerless, depressing day, consistent with rain and children's disappointment.......

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Categories: cheerless, day, feelings, image, imagination,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
...Navigating vast oceans of life, negotiating its lows and highs, Some blissful of pure joy, some burdened in griefs and sighs, Riding aspirations eternal, rowing vigor of happiness I ride, Undulati......

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Categories: cheerless, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Five O Clock Shadow
...I feel like a dusty blade with nothing to cut You said I didn't have the guts to fill the neon skies A cheerless languid five o clock shadow You stole my castle and that I hadn't the paint A ......

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Categories: cheerless, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Problem With Polaroids
...Memories of my childhood are Polaroids of nostalgic cards instant colored snapshots of my every action from the day of my birth to the day I took my first steps from the day I first started schoo......

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Categories: cheerless, childhood, growing up, image,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Passing Cloud
...To move on as thy born nature has been, Pass on, O Passing Cloud, with all thy blight, Let every dark despair deliver hope, Let every cheerless gloom smile as delight. Come if ye may, unto m......

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Categories: cheerless, life, rain,
Form: Ode

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