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Despairs Poems - Poems about Despairs

Beneath the veil
...You're ever at my beck and call – Perfection reflected from my mirror. On a sail ~ A voyage that carries off my challenges. All my sorrows and sadness ~ Locked away in your jail, The yashmak of......

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Categories: despairs, analogy, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Other
bath house
...Jordholmen’s public bath Back in the days of yore, few people had a shower unit they might have had bathtub that was used once a week when the whole family bathed and the loser was the dad usually w......

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Categories: despairs, addiction, april, best friend,
Form: ABC



Premium Member God's Angels
...Just a note to the reader: this poem is not biographical - as I don't have first hand experience, but it is intended to discourage anyone who might be considering an abortion My heart stil......

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Categories: despairs, abortion,
Form: Free verse
The Question of Survival
...Why do I deserve to live when millions have died?  Prays didn't work, even though they cried.  While millions starve, their lives go to waste. As if their journey were destined in haste,  By hung......

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Categories: despairs, 10th grade, allegory, allusion,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Life's Menu
... Life's Menu The world is a feast hosting many beasts lodging its beings In a palace of bliss Serving mystery meals with knives and forks tending to fangs and claws Ripping through ......

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Categories: despairs, creation, deep, life,
Form: Narrative



The Helping Hand
...In a world full of despairs, distrust and betrayals. World one can not lean on nor breathe. Sanctuaries turned to haunted abode... Nightmares with bleak future a norm as hope Long gone,leaves im......

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Categories: despairs, 3rd grade, africa, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magic of Minor
...Under soothing minor key, soft and slow, The Sound of Silence bares my heart’s despairs, Hallelujah’s the fourth, the fifth strike low, Schindler’s List sadness drowns my soul in tears. The......

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Categories: despairs, music, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Two raindrops
...Plop, plop, Two drops from rain clouds fall, How varied their thoughts, I recall, Both fall upon parched dust, One feels, oh my life’s all but bust. The other feels rosy indeed— I’d fertilize a......

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Categories: despairs, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moments To Last A Lifetime
... Hesitating, I feel his pulse Racing, like the winds breathless Whisper, through the oaks, the pines, Forest’s redemption – erasing the melancholic Fading stars, glazing a summer s......

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Categories: despairs, how i feel, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In epiphany
...An epiphany I come from a womb Yet I'm not wounded I have sad eyes, but not crying Where are the butterflies in my stomach It's fear I'm denying I came from a wounded heart ~ I Com......

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Categories: despairs, addiction, analogy, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Black Soul
...Colour my soul black, Tonight with your hatred, Colour my rose black, Tonight with your fate! You were the rainbow, I looked up to You were the light; the hope I clinged to! Colour my d......

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Categories: despairs, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer
... when my heart breaks for the morning, yet yearns for the starlit skies, I know that the music of summer is playing across my life ~ quote by poet ~~~ Summer covers the earth in ......

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Categories: despairs, summer,
Form: List
The Tongue Of The Serpent
...The tongue of the serpent speaks Of forbidden fruit and lust And the fruit of the tree is plucked For the hand of man is weak One bite of the apple sweet And man is naked tossed In a world of......

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Categories: despairs, evil, fruit, judgement, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Vultures Circle The Sky
... In the shadows, harpies linger as agents provocateur, for the Fallen Watchers, for pecking order. Prostitute mercenaries, addicted to mercury and disorder. Their claws sharp, their cries a ......

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Categories: despairs, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Started With a Blank Canvas
... How endearing the innocence of life was, When blissfully it started, with a blank canvas, Cherishing in mother’s love and warmth, Happy as can be, cuddled in loving arms, Flaunting vigor of ado......

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Categories: despairs, life, metaphor,
Form: Verse

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