Powerlessly Poems | Examples


Dry Leaves

Seeds sprout to become trees
Trees with ample green leaves
Leaves fully growing yellow
Yellow to dry under a hot sun

Sun causing the leaves to die off
Off the tree they hastily tumble
Tumbling silently wraths mother tree
Tree dismayed for losing her leaves

Leaves now lying at her foot inactive
Inactive and leaving nude the branches 
Branches of mother tree cause her shame
Shame for the birds’ frantically watch

Watching powerlessly their home gone
Gone at sunset but waiting for another day
Day for seeking a new comfy home
Home of joy to host everyone joyfully 

Poem by N. Mugisho
Categories: powerlessly, absence, age, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse

Mentally Drowning

She cried her heart out in the shower this morning 
Desperate, anguishing tears
Uncontrollable, convulsing sobs

Anxiety within was strangling her
Clenching and crippling
Incarcerating her into a frozen-like state

All the while
No one heard her cries
No one shared her suffering

No one knew how defeated she felt
How crumpled her courage was
How convoluted her coping skills had become
How much it was consuming her

Porcelain contours cradled her body as she wailed 
Powerlessly...
Fearfully...
and...
Alone

July 25, 2021
Categories: powerlessly, anxiety, courage, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse


In the Shade of Death

My day had been extremely hectic 
Stamina,  I fully consumed along the day
Desperately, into my cold bed, I jumped 
To only find myself into the shade of death 

A deep sleep immediately swooped my soul   
To guide it mercilessly into hallucination 
Where red and black visions invaded me
To find myself into the shade of death

I was lonely and poorly struggled powerlessly 
With lions and leopards that surrounded me
Great fear vanished my voice to cry for rescue  
To find myself into that distressing shade of death

My arms abandoned me desperately to fight 
Into a deep burning hell, I stood,  with wobbling legs
Burning was my bed and prickly were my sheets
I found myself fearful into the shade of death

But luckily, a kind Angel came closer to me for rescue 
To only realize the real world existed around me though
The whole night had been unkind and silently dead
Lifeless was the land: no crickets’ songs, no moon, no stars  
To leave me in such virtually scaring shades of death 


Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
Categories: powerlessly, anxiety, death, depression, dream,
Form: ABC

Chinese Rose

I was taken captive by an amazing Chinese rose
She is very far away, but it seemed close
In the land of fantasy,was born a powerful illusion 
Against a beautiful dream, powerlessly of preclusion
Categories: powerlessly, allusion,
Form: Romanticism

Meanings

This husband is double-crossing his wife and she is suspicious
That her ‘for better, for worse’ trusted husband is promiscuous
                   
He is called before the gods of verdict and fate: some court session
To make him affirm before these gods: indeed a serious procession 
                   
She made him say that she was the only woman he was seeing
And only and only her, the suspicious wife, was that human being

The suspicious wife asked: “Am I the only woman you are seeing?”
The cheating man said: “Yes. You are the only woman I am seeing.”

“And swear by your soul that I am the only woman you are seeing”
“And I swear by my soul that you are the only woman I am seeing”
                  
“And say I hope to die if you’re not the only woman I am seeing”
“And I hope to die if you are not the only woman I am seeing”

The woman lets out a sigh of relief and content for her bold attempt
The man chuckles ‘how many women am I seeing here?’ with contempt
 
And the gods of verdict and fate look at each other, powerlessly
For the promiscuous husband has answered so fine and faultlessly.
Categories: powerlessly, husband, language, trust, words,
Form: Rhyme


The Storm (For Laura Mckenzie's Winter Theme Competition

The ghostly sky hangs over the bay
Purple, ominous and looming black
Seagulls screech their advance warning
Of the foreboding storm approaching.
Through the endless rush of water
Swelling, surging and wildly panoramic
The passage of time flows powerlessly.
A rainbow glares from the November sky
At one with winter's warning sounds.
Small fishing boats cradled by the pier
Rock and sway, frail and threatened
The darkened ocean has caved in 
And is now under siege.
Seagulls flap their wings in rhythm
Seeking out the giant cliff's shelter
While frothing waves, great replicas
Of an eternity of lifetimes - 
Roll and struggle to their destination.
Through blackened skies covering the bay
A myriad of orange light shoots momentarily
Dimming - fading and then dispersing.
Nature is trust into chaos
Thundering and spraying the pier wall.
As the winds howl and the waves lash
The fury of the night has just begun.
Categories: powerlessly, nature
Form: Free verse

Showering

Droplets delicately adorn the skin
dressing it with diamonds of life.
How you seduce the mind,
your peals pleasingly relaxing the body.
Soothing the soul,
your warmth trails playful affection,
infectiously raising temperatures
whilst refreshing hidden areas,
cleansing parts unseen;
until your passionate embrace is over,
and quietly you renew your natural force.
Waiting, welcoming tired spirits,
awakened, your piped need to run free escapes.
Then caught, trapped and suspended once more.
You stand now powerlessly surrendering
while pressures urge of desire to embrace
holds you, patiently awaiting naked return.
Categories: powerlessly, adventure, caregiving, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse

The Truth of An Angel

An angel passed by me 
                     With a broken smile that I could see,
A tear fell from her eye,
                      A tear that made all my feelings die,

She screamed, facing the sky,
                               Her words almost made me cry,
She said that the world was a lie,
                               But she never  told me why,

She powerlessly fell down on the floor,
                                And I couldn't hear her voice anymore...
I looked at her bewildered and confused,
                                But at the same time I was amused

From the angel that feels the pain,
So now I know that I am not insane...

Everyone feels the pain in this life...even an angel
Categories: powerlessly, imagination, sad, me, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Get a Premium Membership
Get more exposure for your poetry and more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Reflection on the Important Things

Member Area

My Admin
Profile and Settings
Edit My Poems
Edit My Quotes
Edit My Short Stories
Edit My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder

Soup Social

Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us

Member Poems

Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread

Member Poets

Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest

Famous Poems

Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100

Famous Poets

Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War

Poetry Resources

Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter