Short Anguished Poems

My heart says
You too are anguished for me
An illusion
Presumptuous day dreaming
Of my ever naïve heart...

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Pain is much too personal for verse,
Don’t curse
The reader with your anger-anguished words.
Rhyme flowers, sun and birds....

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Unclothed
Anguished
Bloodshed
Outstretched
Was totally unclothed, anguished soul
Hands sides thorned head bloodshed, outstretched whole...

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L-et
O-penness
R-elieve
Y-our

A-nguished
N-ight
N-icely

Topic: Birthday of Lory Ann (October 13)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-ust
H-appily
E-xpect
N-ewness

T-o
A-bate
T-he
A-nguished
C-hill

Topic: Birthday of Jhen Tatac (September 14) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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uttered fluttered flame still ignited 
    as summer stuttered steps faded;  
      held my anguished face, 
        muttered and laid a breath kiss. 

9/16/2020...

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Angst
Nerve-racking 
Intensifying stressful tensions
Anguished, worrisome, troubling, sorrowful
Fretfulness 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 22, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain...

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Lord, bless me to hear and see others unspoken needs

Before, their anguished cries or unheard pleas

Lord, Grant me wisdom while on my knees

Bless me with charity, in word and deed...

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N-ewness
E-liminates
N-ight
E-vening

D-ark
O-nce
B-eacon's
L-ight
E-ases

Y-our
A-nguished
P-light

T opic: Birthday of Nene Doble Yap (July 12) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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B-ehold
E-arly
R-adiant
N-ewness
A-ft er
R-ainy
D-ark
I-s
N-egated
A-s

T-winkle
A-bates
Y-our
A-nguished
G-ray

Topic: Birthday of Bernardina Tayag (November 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Vanished glitter, evaporated beauty and shape
Faces that the fabric of wrinkles of agony drape

Tormented and anguished soul in the body’s unsightly prison 
  Without the succor of death is there an escape?...

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unseen tears of gold fish in aquarium - anguished heart penned a verse




  How My First Poem Was Born Poetry Contest
  Monoku poetry form only. Sponsored by: JCB Burl 
  Date: 04/10/2020
  PLACE : 1st...

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M-eaningful
E-xpression
R-ightfully
C-omforts
E-very
D-ay
I-nspiring
T-he
A-nguished

M-ind
A-s
Y-our
O-de
R-eplenishes

Topic: Birthday of Mercedita Mayor (April 15) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A-n
I-conic
S-cribe
I-s
S-imply
U-sing

N-ote
E-asing
Y-our
A-nguished
M-ind
A-s
G-reat
E-xpression
S-oothes
H-eart
I-nside

Topic: Birthday of Aisisu Neyamageshi (March 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Time Is the Fire in Which We All Burn

By Elton Camp

One day, Sue gave an anguished scream		

How it all happened, she couldn’t dream		

Hair unruly, breasts did sag

Her dress was a rag

“I once was on the cheerleader team!”...

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Two
Gray
Hazy
Entities
In front of the bed
Tormenting the anguished lost soul
As infectious flies flying in open wounds by sins
Escaping from the reality with delusions appearing as real to feebled mind









4-10-2016...

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your light has long extinguished
only sadness remains
over promises you have anguished
a dark side that couldn’t be tamed

a spark is all you need
to rekindle what was lost
all those whispers you should not heed
redeem your soul at any cost...

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Torrential rain falls
Rivers swell, bursting their banks
Floods consume the land

Houses submerged deep
Anguished cries of lost homes rise
Water, ruthless foe

Nature's wrath unleashed
Mighty force engulfs all life
Hope floats amidst fear
...

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blood stains the sidewalk where I walk
broken hearts lie beating on the ground
tears are the only currency in this town
carnage surround me, human wreckage all around
anguished cries begging for a reprieve
tortured souls sorry for their misdeeds....

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The wind…
That through
Barren limbs sighs
Soulful sound
That seeps round
Loose windowpanes 
And sides

The silent sound
From anguished eye
The heart 
That cries out “why?!”
Tis the soul-torn
Sound of tears
We hear…
Sound made
…when Angels cry…...

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Curtain up
Situation
Action
Drama
Response
Suspense
Tears
Fears
Emotions
Reactions
Darkness
Death
Loss
Moment
Despair
Anguished
Disturbed
Spotlight
Finale
Rejoice
Hope regained
Bows
Curtain comes down
Captivation
Audience applause...

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In the most anguished moments of my life
times when my mistakes cause me strife
I feel I deserve a birch wood beating
to go unpunished would be cheating 
and then I recall
that through it all    
with trepidation loomin'   
I am only human...

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Spider Web Tears


My tears to a spider web cling

Captured sorrow
teetering on woven thoughts
and anguished pleas

Freely in the wind and sunlight glare

Until falling,
finding the earth barren and parched,
absorbed until they mean 

nothing...

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Beneath the gaze
of watchful eyes
she sits and cries.
The fairies pry

and wring their hands.
The wind goes by
with anguished sigh
he strokes her face.


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my thoughts they so trouble me
my heart anguished within
there's no great love to save me
so Jesus saves, I'm born again
only God gives the power to save
He has lifted me on high this day
those who are sinful will see the grave
never to rise they're there to stay...

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