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Despairing Poems - Poems about Despairing

Despairing Poems - Examples of all types of poems about despairing to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for despairing.
Memory in Solace
...There is a grave with no name That stands lonelier still. It has no flowers nor despairing mourners And the grass grows thick and bushy, For this grave is left to rot. Abandoned is this grave—......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, death, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rejection Letter
... When the words don’t lure me with their muse, Desire to pour out hopes, dreams, light that bleeds, Wetting the beauty of my heart’s best seeds, Emptying the feelings, once caged by......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, meaningful, poems, poetry, word
Form: Verse
Premium Member Greener on the Other Side of the Fence
... He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire, fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines, reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries, the edges of a pasture, clever......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, animal, appreciation, endurance, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grieving
...Grieving; I weep silently As daylilies die daily A slow death but violently Their leaves a yellow shaley Feelings that are despairing Heart pain, actual sorrow Tears because you'r......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, beauty, depression, love, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member It Was Love
... Isaiah 43:1 “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mi......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van. Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, culture, depression, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member It Feels Like Spring's Ethereal Lanterns
... Season of hope, season of peace, Season of light, season of faith… As the new comes to hearts, washing away the darkness of winter’s haunting, Feelings bleed in pastel hues – glowing sunli......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, blessing, feelings, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paying To Play
...Imagine if you would be so kind, join me in striving to become less blind Brilliant God says: Give to your oppressively militarized government weaponized suppressive defensively repressive......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, community, culture, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Spontaneity
... "discarding narrow thought flow crutch we learn directly by soft touch and what we garner we relay to the vast void in childlike play entwined thus with the universe we dance without need to......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Greg the Ram
...Whilst grazing quietly in the paddock Greg the ram contemplated havoc It had been an exciting fortnight since He’d made his despairing owners wince Bored out of his skull by life on the farm ......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blessed Love
...Whispers and sighs, softest of smiles Reveal the music playing in the heart. Beautiful rhymes, soothing the nights, Stirring joy, faith and love – Breaths of prayers, some silent, Some echoes......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, animal, appreciation, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Hymn to Angerona
...Creation never knew a soul more kind Than the one that within this verse finds praise. To any eyes that upon these lines gaze, Beauty’s true form shall now be called to mind. During time......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, beautiful, beauty, care, myth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Are You Saved?
...At the end of each moment, Lies a seed – sometimes an echo, Stirring the depths of yearning, Breathless as prayers, burning. At the end of each nighttime, Lies a weed – sometimes a thought, R......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, blessing, christian, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
The In-Between
...What is there to hold onto if you don’t even know your Self? There’s nothing worse than a hardened heart that yearns to crack and spill all over Bleeding for the truth, finally breaking free Thic......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, emotions, faith, introspection, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Graying Ponderings
... Proverbs 16:31 (KJV) The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Our time has come to know the grief, Of losing friends, losing those things – ......Read the rest...
Categories: despairing, age, christian, death, death
Form: Free verse

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