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Rueful Poems - Poems about Rueful

How long must he wait?
...How perversely exciting it used to be, in the months after you made your decision to abandon this hopeless situation meaning [rueful laughter] the UK, not so much the shattered bones of you and m......

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Categories: rueful, england, history, jealousy, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'll Be Your Light
... “In trying times the touch of compassion uplifts the sunk spirit from the depth of depression”- By Poet You walk the content life through the dulcet days on the rose garden's drea......

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Categories: rueful, depression, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rush Hour
...Mine is a wild spring step, shoe heels dash leaf strewn path, I spy wrinkled driver’s, rueful rush hour grim mien, from sleek chrome cars crawl as, my drained feet moult traction!......

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Categories: rueful, angst, anxiety, character, deep,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Rush Hour
... Mine is a wild spring step, shoe heels dash leaf strewn path, wrinkled drivers sour mien, from rueful rush hour toll, as sluggish cars inch by, my drained feet moult traction......

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Categories: rueful, august, deep, environment, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member It Is To Be
...With the winding weary wings spread wide, I fly aimless in the turbulent air of discontent, across the fading hues of the ruined rainbow, where I get caught in the clutch of curling sto......

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Categories: rueful, analogy, angst, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member WISTFUL
...forlorn woebegone in pensive musing this yearning this longing melancholy becomes a rueful pining almost nostalgic contemplation......

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Categories: rueful, word play,
Form: Verse
A Wilderness of Mirrors
...You’ve read about the Victory of Pyrrhus, who said, “I beat them, but I’ll tell you flat: (he hadn’t seen this motor-bike with mirrors) we won’t survive another one like that!” I asked the ride......

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Categories: rueful, humor,
Form: Rhyme
An ode to an Indian nightingale!
...The Clown fish had brimming eyes, a montage flown back to Jaflong , a memory lane I wonder I felt overwhelmed, as if yesterday’s incomplete hard and fast, rituals and alone Over pouring overb......

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Categories: rueful, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
...Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy The following pastiche poetically pricked prick, whereby fantasy courtesy Eros (????) cow licked country bumpin vide......

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Categories: rueful, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hanging On For Dear Life
... Lately, nothing seems to be going right. Sorrow spills from my heart every night. Try as I might, I simply fail to understand why my tears gather like grains of sand. I'm hanging on for dear li......

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Categories: rueful, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Love is a similitude diva of a butterfly soar
...Love is a similitude diva of a butterfly soaring- A Song of Nazrul Islam Babu (Niaz Mohammad Chowdhury) Love is a similitude diva of a butterfly soaring higher on a flight of blindfolded pastime ......

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Categories: rueful, allah, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Thought Parades
...An escapade from thought parades A blockade of rouge descent An oeillade craved Rueful indignance A room full of insects A jocose allusion A lissome illusion A querulous reality I weep wher......

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Categories: rueful, writing,
Form: Free verse
In forest green
...I do walk in the forest green upon the soft paths beneath towering trees colorful birds around me sing and rich full scents float upon the breeze and at my side they do walk our ......

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Categories: rueful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Polly Astley
...Polly Astley loved to have visitors, for she loved piquant, plum people; Like counting stars when we were young, in milky moonlight, peaceful. Her days were spent teaching children, with ......

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Categories: rueful, fantasy, friendship, home, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dreams Turned into Ashes
...There are many painful pitfalls to happiness, and no one is immune to misery's tragic tune. We cry in the night like a wolf baying at the moon, sullen, soulful songs of heartbreak and despair, dr......

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Categories: rueful, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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