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Despairing Poems - Poems about Despairing

Premium Member The 'Whirlwind'
... Despairing of lightening her mood ten children her burden her life spent pushing and tugging at a grindstone of darkest despair ......

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Categories: despairing, change, dance, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member IMAGINE A NEW REALITY
... I heard Imagine, one of my favorite songs, this Juneteenth morning and thought how John Lennons’s lyrics and music still ring true…. I suppose that’s because imagining is also one of my favorite ......

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Categories: despairing, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



Gone Fishing
... Despairing seafaring..can be Lore of days of yore Glories or gory Bold stories told Foreshore folklore Hemingway’s…Old Man and the Sea Smiles..feeling chipper Like a wee......

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Categories: despairing, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Abstain's Scion
...As I wander across the arid dunes Singing along, stringing along the ghastly glacial tunes Sinking in the sands of debility Saddled on a ride filled with sanguinity Pondering, contemplating, desp......

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Categories: despairing, anxiety, identity,
Form: Free verse
Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
... twelve of us he choose to paint sons of Jacob in an earthen jar so sturdy plonked us with vehemence directed by neuronal cells skull protecting scrambled delicacy ......

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Categories: despairing, allegory, art, character, color,
Form: Ekphrasis



Blowing a helluva Hooley
... Rarely not windy In the far flung Squarely unfairly unsung Seriously deliriously magical Mystical..mythical Catlins Rather adept at being Scarily palaver kept.. Wild & warily windswept ......

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Categories: despairing, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks
...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge) "Stares upstairs.. Angels’ weeing above.. Be a good chap.. Show some love bruv.. Turn off the ta......

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Categories: despairing, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ONE CELLO AND THREE VIOLINS
... We attended a candle-lit concert…with joy and wonder already built in. It was the music of Adele…performed by 1 cello and 3 violins. For a little while that evening…if was our aim…our intention......

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Categories: despairing, inspiration, music,
Form: Rhyme
Whenever Beliefs
...Whenever beliefs are placed above any worthless things they affirm the essence of true ideals, that sparked visions in people's minds. Hold on those beliefs and assert feelings, if brave men s......

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Categories: despairing, character, courage, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
HYACINTH HANDS
... Hyacinth Hands Mother, ego-cracker, birthed an embodiment of freedom plaited with slavery petunia planter, marjoram with Malay curry and rice, yet scarcity her best perform......

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Categories: despairing, appreciation, birth, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Daffodils
...It's the 20th March again, The clouds can't hold crystals to rain. The old well that dwells in woods, Peacefully humming all broods. Turning up the level of fears, Filling itself again with......

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Categories: despairing, 1st grade, daffodils,
Form: Couplet
policy writers writing? wrong
... journalist hours visit policy budget for all night viability of crime the next debate was done uncovering secrets of privacy violations is a job violating pricacy of secret places we don't no we......

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Categories: despairing, america, discrimination, humanity,
Form: Free verse
February Gray
... February Gray The weather and my mood, dismal as KING 5’s Headline News reports of politics, war and a cold rain forecast for tomorrow, makes me take a break from TV or staring out the wi......

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Categories: despairing, 12th grade, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Echo Returns Not
...When driving in Colorado or Nevada, where twilight crimson rays on canyons burn, into ancient layers of blood red strata - on crooked roads, don't take the wrong turn. They say, in these part......

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Categories: despairing, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Love is Never Far
...Her sharp words echo, carving through my mind, A prayer escapes my lips for some peace to find. Upon my bed I cry and pray to You, And often wonder if Your word is true. But who am I to doubt You......

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Categories: despairing, child abuse, christian, depression,
Form: Lyric

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