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Despair Poems - Poems about Despair
Despair Poems - Examples of all types of poems about despair to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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A solitary figure
...In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childh......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form:
Rhyme
Oblivion
...In the depths of her despair, she's confined, A solitary figure, lost in her mind, Engulfed by shadows, no end in sight, She battles demons in the darkest night. Her thoughts, like poison, eat ......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
conflict, dark, depression, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
This Greyling Sallow Place
...Gloomy dismal, and forlorn... that's how this day was borne in a Greyling sallow place where death doth reign without a face. In a boneyard of decaying flesh, one fresh abyss was dug to th......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
despair,
sad, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Like Gold of Havilah
...Like gold of Havilah God is true and straight. I can exhort Adonai's Mercy and tender heart. Be it ambivalence Or the rubble of despair Wherever prayer is The Lord abides there. ......
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Amy Michelle Mosier
Categories:
despair,
celebration, god, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
My Mistress, the Moon
... From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak my naked shame, to veil my plight......
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Edward Wraith
Categories:
despair,
beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form:
Rhyme
Gift Of God
... The dazzling dawn lights up my heart’s horizon, spreads the sensuous spectrum of luring longing on the gorgeous blooming garden flushed with my love, swathing the facsimile of your florid fac......
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Categories:
despair,
analogy, beauty, love,
Form:
Free verse
Because He Lives
...When the past tears apart the courageous, leaving… Bloodstained bodies – trembling tears, silence, Nightmares, grief and no reassurance or relief, In the distance, so much disbelief, where......
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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
despair,
appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Father's Memorial day
...The world has indeed been forgetting me Forgetting me cruelly As waste that neither grow nor breathe It is a fermentation of anger and despair As Despairing as it struggles with anger At th......
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Xuefeng Pan
Categories:
despair,
appreciation, blessing, father, father
Form:
Free verse
Grim Embrace
...In the depths of her soul, she's yearning for touch, In a void of despair, where emotions are crushed. Once her fortress, her solace, her knight, Now distant, indifferent, cloaked in spite. He ......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
anger, depression, emotions, howl,
Form:
Rhyme
A tarnished soul
...Here's a story poem about a girl's tragic descent, imbued with dark imagery: A Broken Doll's Lament Tiny fingers, a gap in the wood, a scene etched in fright, A scream ripped from silence, shatter......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
anger, cry, depression, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
Why create me
...She screams at the heavens, her voice a plea, In anguish and despair, on bended knee. "Why create me," she wails, "for endless pain, For 45 years, suffering's been my bane!" "You know all, th......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
anger, betrayal, christian, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
In the thicket forgotten of deeply anchored thoughts
...In the thicket forgotten of deeply anchored thoughts, Where ideas nest, across time and tailored spaces, There I stand, guardian of the undimmed realm, the archivist of the flame That knows not ex......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
despair,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Clean Air
... We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? Quote by: Lee lacocca The air that we breathe must be clean Too many infections we’ve seen Difficulty breathing ......
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Beryl Edmonds
Categories:
despair,
care, sea, tree,
Form:
Limerick
Yoga
...When I do a twist, I don’t make a fist. Instead I spread my palm. And feel the calm. I’m outside, but not sitting. Bare feet are quite fitting. To sense the earth. A sense of peace I unearth. ......
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Angelica Tao
Categories:
despair,
me,
Form:
Rhyme
LILY
...In a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep, Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep. With every creak of the floorboards at night, She'd hold her breath, gripped by fright. Mr. J......
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Amanda Payne
Categories:
despair,
anger, child, child abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
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