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Desperation Poems - Poems about Desperation

Desperation Poems - Examples of all types of poems about desperation 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 desperation.
Vancouverite Metropolitan Hellscape, part 1 of 5
...(prelude) the buzzing of the evening insects presage evil ! here are black wolves ! here are ghosts and fiends and here are blackest of demons ! and black be the murk ton......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, abuse, addiction, america, angst,
Form: Free verse



Forever After Meeting
...The moment I laid eyes on you, I knew I finally found God's perfection. All the beauty He crafted and sculptured, Created you without any correction. I wonder if there were circumstances, Wher......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, beautiful, best friend, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Desperation Multiplied
...My mind wanders until I pass out from exhaustion. Ivory dreams that end in disappointment because reality is so bittersweet. As I float along an 80 proof river my senses become dull with compassion......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Not so sweet
... Lying in the dark the fuse and fuzz of shadows as they meld and malform glimmers of lost light spit their desperation Creaks and cracks mutter a defiance of the day The dull ache of alon......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, poems,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Within Our Bones
...My heart grew fond of you quickly your brown golden skin sparkled in the sunlight as we lay side by side an entrancing and sharp contrast to my melancholy paleness, sprawled in the grassy fi......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, feelings, inspirational love, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To a Dead Mouse
... I Friend, whatever brought your life to end had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path, ......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, in memoriam,
Form: Free verse
Bridge of Emptiness
...At the bridge of emptiness Heavenly gallows stood watch At humanity’s travails As suffer-woods blaze in the furnace of toils Ashes of desperation scatter Forming thick mist of pain Hoverin......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whenever The Soldiers Go
...These thoughts will follow whenever the soldiers go... to be with them into the battlefield, reciting the shortest prayer to protect them as a shield in moments of uncertainty and fear! A hea......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Narrative
October morning
...October morning who needs their shoes repaired Remember the silence broken by the arguing October morning used to bring me down Daughters and Mothers send each other down they angst amongst th......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, age,
Form: Free verse
Yearn
..."Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning." - Joha......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, angst, health, longing,
Form: Alliteration
Divine Salutation
...Behind the guise of the masks & words lay a truth concealed by clever nouns & verbs Now a fire's lit to match the lies with truth bearing an eternal flame lighting a wick with proof From the tree......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, introspection, leadership, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great American Make-Believe
...Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity. I grew up among the repetitious homes, isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity, the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome. Repug......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sonship
... “The resurrection is a place of triumph over satan, sin and death. Its a place of reconciliation and eternal redemption. Its a place of our sonship with all its rights and privileges ......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, blessing, christian, faith, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet's Lament
... Inspiration has fled me Hard toil has bled me Desperation has led me to my current snafu… Frustration has fed me Neuroses have shred me No one has read me no one ......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, inspiration, life, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How do I write a love poem
...When I see a beauty, a vision divine, Love songs within me start to entwine. Her face, a garden of blossoms in bloom, Each petal a verse, dispelling gloom. Her smile, a fragrance, jasmine sweet......Read the rest...
Categories: desperation, love, poems,
Form: Rhyme

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