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Self Pity Poems - Poems about Self Pity

Self Pity Poems - Examples of all types of poems about self pity 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 self pity.
Quivered Portraits
...Picture portraits of us together in the placid plantation of peacefulness that is lit with emotionally righteous wit Pleasant sounds fill me up and thrill me…ascends my frown into a smile Going ba......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, courage, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Edvard Munch, The Woman and the Bear
..."show me your face" growls subside upon revelation does your countenance veil mine? I see beyond sight and temporality still full of sorrow, though drawn in indisputably realised in your emb......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Absolution
...Within a tear I shed Lists all the deeds I dread Things that I have done From which I wish I could run Or perhaps bury in the sun So, they would burn away And I wouldn’t have to pay But l......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BLESSES US
... March 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 16-18 Key Verse– Joshua 17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one por......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
How did I get here
...(writing for the voice of my son who has terminal illness) Reality is searingly intimate. But they say anguish, woes and sadness are emotions best shared. I am not saying I enjoy lament......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Tattered
...Darkness abounds in my heartfelt sorrow where she left me stripped of pride a battered crippled soul who aimlessly wanders in darker realms of blue I continually drown in tears of anguish ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Turmoil
...It is not fair, it is not just, That you have things that I don't! Do I suffer with envy and jealousy, Coiling like a noose in my chest? Or do I strive to improve myself? Or do I accept you ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Spontaneity
... One day, as I sat musing Matter at hand, confusing Nothing came to me enforced No matter how much coerced Effort was there, intent too Ideas not coming through Seemed t......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, allusion, confidence, emotions, growth,
Form: Couplet
Unraveling
...Do tell, when seen, the sight of answers The ones that are sought deep within. Away now, dig graves deeper Unearth the bones, the memories of pain therein. Make use of scraps and stain......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, emotions, feelings, sad,
Form: Sonnet
A Drinking Man
...Each night she left him bleary - his mind foaming in a glass of Guiness. Disappointments wore her life thin, nuptials picked to a fugue and dinge, by his thick-tongued spiel. “I can change ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire and Ice
... Brilliant and dull, Losing and winning, Seeking and finding – Among the dreams, a feeling… She risks her heart, And, finds her hope. She rises in the morning, To erase the darkest fears. ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feeling Rough
...Like a dog With a sandpaper throat A cough like a bark And the mood of a scrote Just tossing and turning With no comfortable spot A nose like a tap Simply dripping with snot I sweat like ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, anxiety, funeral, pain, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MY LAST N-A
...I pushed at the open door no sound just darkness inside. Dust filtered my nostrils, a mustiness of lost years inhabited my senses. A loose floorboard creaked in the stairwell, the ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, poetry, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Second Sight
...If only I could see the light If only I had second sight My future ever bright would be The night would never frighten me And as the hour's growing late And as the master of my fate ......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
...Written: December 19, 2023  "His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson" __......Read the rest...
Categories: self pity, analogy, angst, character, deep,
Form: Rhyme

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