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Short Despair Poems

Short Despair Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Despair by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Despair by length and keyword.


Cheer Me Up
Cheer me up
Life is not
Despair...

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Categories: despair, africa,
Form: Haiku



Moment of Life
Despair To Expire
Respire To Aspire...

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Categories: despair, hope,
Form: Couplet
Levi
despair
grandson is no more
suicide...

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Categories: despair, angst, bereavement, death, farewell,
Form: Haiku
The Devil's Lair
despair is the devil's dungeon broiling in darkness...

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Categories: despair, grief,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Ambitions Ego
A
graveyard
of despair-
filled with broken
dreams....

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Categories: despair, life, people,
Form: Lanterne



Morning Tears
Waking up with tears
Frozen,despair
In a morning tears...

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Categories: despair, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, betrayal, black african
Form: Haiku
Hope
in the midst of despair, have no fear, hope is always there...

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Categories: despair, fear, hope,
Form: Monoku
Haiku a Day
an haiku a day
may help keep despair away
may even bring joy...

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Categories: despair, write,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Scream: Edvard Munch
fragility of reason ~ ululates upon brush strokes of despair...

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Categories: despair, art, depression, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Lucifer Sings
a fallen angel
scurries into cocaine world
smug Lucifer sings...

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Categories: despair, addiction, drug, power, recovery from,
Form: Senryu
I Smell a Rat!
quivering despair
heart throbbing ~ hair on end
eek! a mouse!...

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Categories: despair, adventure, animals, funny, imagination
Form: Free verse
Sea (Haiku)
the  sea engulfes me
into a world of despair
i want to be free...

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Categories: despair, hope, sea
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Shared World
Carbon emissions
Despair melting permafrost
Extinction is nigh...

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© Alex Corns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despair, earth, environment, fate, humanity, pollution, weather, world,
Form: Haiku
Abandoned
Last days of Autumn.
A solitary goose flies
Honking in despair....

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© Rich Reitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despair, loneliness, lost, november, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Sky
The sky is weeping
Tears of relief and despair.
I absorb them all....

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© Ira Dawson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despair, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Corona Virus
A virus beware
Its ghastly grip is right here
My death and despair...

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Categories: despair, health, sick, world,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Murmurs of My Heart
Erase dark’s angry sting, stealing light from the faraway tenderness...

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Categories: despair, deep, loneliness, missing you,
Form: Monoku
What I Feel
Crushed by despair, separated from the world, living in loneliness......

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Categories: despair, how i feel, life, loneliness,
Form: Monoku
Air
Despair on my knees,
Can you feel the air tonight?
And I suffocate....

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Categories: despair, depression, life, sad
Form: Haiku
On
Not knowing my pain
of this unreturned longing.
The despair goes on....

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Categories: despair, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Senryu
Poet Me Not
The world without art
The world without poetry
Live hard, live despair...

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Categories: despair, philosophy, world,
Form: Haiku
No Contest, Contest
Gaps in character  
Miles of despair, challanges
Grow strong as Dams...

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Categories: despair, growing up,
Form: Haiku
Hope In Despair
Drowning inwardly light shinning through the darkness free now forever...

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Categories: despair, freedom, hope,
Form: Monoku
Hair Down In My Grand Fathers Convertable
No lady despair
The call of adventure blair
where tousled waves flair...

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© Emma Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: despair, adventure, appreciation, april, car, fun, imagery, nice,
Form: Haiku
Work Work Work Work Work
to camouflage the
deep despair of loneliness
work work work work work...

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Categories: despair, angst, on work and working, sad, work,
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs