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Pitiable Poems - Poems about Pitiable

Premium Member The Chaos in My Heart
... I don't know of anyone who's been successful in an attempt to capture the encumbrance of a love pledged and then withdrawn, nor how to heal a heart from its fallibility. So, I'm left wo......

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Categories: pitiable, lost love,
Form: Free verse
In and out the lusty nil wedding bells
...(Inspired by Marvin Goldfarb's great contest in which I won a trophy cup and wonderful poems by other English poets as noted below, 'LESSON IN LIFE' by BrittBrattTechy, 'Every child deserves better' ......

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Categories: pitiable, culture, desire, heartbreak, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme



Premium Member Yet, it returned
...My old house stood by a march surrounded by bushes and rushes. Thrown over it garbage and faeces sometimes,death rodents. Disgustful it's dwellers often came up on the portico of my house, I......

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Categories: pitiable, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Us Parochials
...I’d put on the gray drab uniform, catch the yellow bus, while other villagers made a pilgrimage to Violet Avenue Elementary School, and us parochials would be driven to the now closed St. Peters......

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Categories: pitiable, angst, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 3rd wheeling
...(A Christmas vacation vignette) Lisa and I choppered onto Manhattan Island yesterday morning. We’d both felt toasted—so we took naps—and yay! We awoke recharged. Later that evening, Lisa and I ......

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Categories: pitiable, boyfriend, christmas, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse



Last touch
...If demons had wings they'd find they're way to her heart, It's a blasphemous affair She's white linen fabric and I,a pitiable being Our differences make us beautiful creatures These are the forbi......

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Categories: pitiable, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desultory Existence
... Dry dust rises behind me as I walk The earth has become a panting sterile desert Words become incoherent and rattle as I talk Dry dust rises behind me as I walk When I try to commun......

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Categories: pitiable, anxiety, betrayal, journey,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Critterature: The Peculiar Plight of the Poor Pitiable Octopus
...To the ancient Norse he was Kraken With a mean inclination, And the Greeks called him Gorgon With the same reputation. But as monster of myths He's been wrongly miscast, So I'm here to shed new......

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Categories: pitiable, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sipping Claret from a Lismore Goblet
...Bereft and alone since love was lost, she sits in deep shadows humming the same song sipping claret from a Lismore goblet Day and night, in silence she dwells Time no longer sifts through an ......

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Categories: pitiable, sad, wine,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rime and Reason I Shall Not
...Alone, alone, all, all alone Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Rime and Reason I ......

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Categories: pitiable, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wail of a Love Letter
...Carrying the fever and heat of love’s first flame, I set out on a journey expectant and anxious, sealed and tight lipped, all emotions bottled. From port to port I journeyed, tr......

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Categories: pitiable, angst, irony, love,
Form: Personification
The Sullied
...On the streets of Lagos,lumbasa , Kigali, Cairo and their environs Shame etched his name on thy skin Thou art become a site for dumping For all willing to dump Gone is thy once-proud stature......

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Categories: pitiable, africa,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sorrow of the Skies
...The Sorrow of the Skies The sun and the moon were once great lovers In ancient days gone by. The clouds formed from their sorrow, and the rain, when they would cry. For this pitiable couple we......

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Categories: pitiable, break up, moon, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids
...Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids, A man chose to remain silent, waiting in vain for vibrant moments. Wrapped in the warm cocoon of faded security, He saw life turnin......

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Categories: pitiable, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Side of a Great Love
...Wordsworth wrote, in 'Splendor in the Grass,' about the glory that can be found in the flower. He alluded to a love that had long since passed, like clock hands tick off each second an......

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Categories: pitiable, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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