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Distress Poems - Poems about Distress

Premium Member The Silence Faded With a soft Embrace
"Silence Faded with a Soft Embrace" ...

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Categories: distress, confidence, jealousy, life, sad
Form: Rhyme
Reeves's Rapid Transit and Donut Distress
Jack Traven, on a bus, quite distressed, Said, "This speed limit's truly a test!" He'd leap and he'd dash, With a panicked mustache, "And where's my next donut? I'm stressed!" ©bfa032025 (Keanu Reeves in Speed) ...

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Categories: distress, film, fun, funny, hilarious,
Form: Limerick



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That night with a warm, bitter scent, I watched the sad sky. Your footsteps echoed far away, and your hand, like mist— I couldn’t touch it, only feel it; but you were already gone. You taste like goodbye....

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Categories: distress, absence, angst,
Form: Free verse
Dark Distress Deeply Dwelling
When hues collide, a stark and brutal scene, Black bruises blooming where the light once played, And blue, a sorrow, silent and unseen, Beneath the surface, where the heart's betrayed. Is this the canvas where our truths reside? A testament to battles fought and lost, Where tenderness and anger cannot hide, And pain's raw artistry incurs such cost? Or do these colors whisper...

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Categories: distress, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress
Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.' Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.' all of these Three historical giants, drew breath and inspiration none Can deny it, seeds of thought in Lewis's mind grew into Enchanted forests even braille did find it. And shared to The...

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Categories: distress, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Distress Dish Of Blue Cheese And An Old Dill
Blue Cheese and Old Pickles Poetry Contest Craig Cornish A dish of disappointment mocks the kitchen chef two anomalies sitting on his cutting board all in their glory, dumbfounded ... and unappetizing plated for aliens and not humans or for a horse that doesn’t know better this recipe’s giving him the blues and he’s seeing red where … his yellow brick road has two strangers...

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Categories: distress, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Damsel in distress
Amazing, breathtaking, charismatic damsels ensnaring fierce, gallant heroes into jaded knights languishing malingerers, nincompoops, ostracized plebeians. Question rises surely then— Undeniably verily, why? Xenial yeomanly zeal! ...

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Categories: distress, betrayal,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Distress
Distress Miracle Man 1/13/2025 Why should you worry? Worry doesn’t solve problems. Seek God for your peace. ...

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Categories: distress, god, how i feel,
Form: Haiku
A Damsel In Distress
The click of the lock The turn of the key My palm on his cock The moan of our kiss I heard the fall of his belt on the floor For a moment I forgot I am poor "This is why you are my favorite" He said as he sank into me in the dead of...

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Categories: distress, confusion, cry, kiss, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member picking up the pieces
you can't turn me on and off like a lightswitch i don't work that way you're hot you're cold you're unpredictable it's wearying to live in limbo i'm the elastic that's been stretched till it can give no more my compass has lost its north i no longer know what i feel if anything at all i'm the candle without a wick i'm spent and empty hollow and...

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Categories: distress, feelings, longing, love, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strange paradox
Depression, dejection, distress ...

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Categories: distress, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Unfinished Business
Unfinished business, it's causing me distress, A connection so strong, yet full of stress. Speaking through glances, so hard, I’m dead, Harder because I can’t get through to your head. If only I had been a little braver, I could have made "something" into a matter. Even if your heart belonged to another, It’s your love that I am after. But now it's...

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Categories: distress, emotions, goodbye, love, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
THE BREATH OF LOST DAYS
She was there, the wilted flower of a day gone by, Hair in disarray, and eyes tender, He spoke of her with passion, like one speaks of an innocent fool, Hands trembling from having loved her blindly. Time slipped away, a faithful companion to taciturn distress, The sky weighed heavy,...

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Categories: distress, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The oscillations of distress and calm with no place to land
I'm in the cathedral praying to God Unable to quell the thoughts that poor people's money built it and that money was spent on beautiful details in the highest eaves as those people starved And I look at the inside of the door, inches thick with multiple locks and think of how those that donated froze...

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Categories: distress, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Betrayed beyond the depths
In the caverns of a man's soul, there lies A love so deep, a love that defies All reason and longing, it pierces his core, A devotion that he cannot ignore. With eyes ablaze like an eternal fire, He saw in her a love to aspire. He gave her his heart, his every breath, Trusting in...

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Categories: distress, betrayal, break up, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

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