Short Desperately Poems

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


Desperatley Seeking

Desperately Seeking
I cry out loud
For any one to hear my plea
This loneliness that nobody notices
Is driving me insane
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Bitter Tears

C arried through life on the spillage of blood
R azed raw by ruthlessly sadistic emotions
Y earning desperately for death
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Earning It

If you want something
so desperately
you will
work harder-
work stronger
to achieve
what people say
you'll never have

Premium Member -Desperation

Desperately clinging to the side of the mountain

Trying to hold on

Just one wrong move

In that moment it’s all gone!
© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

I Wish

Desperately wish
That I could feel the same way
But I simply don't
And that hurts you so badly
Forget me, and find true love.
Form: Tanka


Friendless

Always misunderstood,
Blaming others not at fault,
Challenging  wisdom,
Desperately,  trying to
Eliminate the need to be loved
Form: ABC

Desperately Covered With Skin

A cigarette burn hole
with floating memories
crushing the ashy edges.

God, please quit smoking by
the next time you mold me.

Desperately Seeking

~

I ran
into the
shadows
leading
the light
that is
desperately
seeking
you
in the 
darkness
of your 
tears

~

Premium Member A Tear Upon Her Cheek

She tried desperately to remember her dream  
frantically trying to seek
the reason she awoke this morning
with a tear upon his cheek.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Your Grace

All I want is you there for me;
Not hesitant, desperately!
So, make me a promise,
Today for tomorrows:
Let our hearts’ rose,
Ever be –
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Breaking Free

The Soul lurches upward
  trying to break free

The Body ropes it
  wrestling desperately

This constant struggle
  does not enlighten me
Form: Rhyme

Complete Nakedness

Being completely naked
goes beyond baring the flesh 
it's being secure enough to 
expose the real truth 
in us we try so desperately
To hide.....

Untitled

what are the odds that you exist?
a droplet amongst the cosmic mist
biding your time on death's waiting list
desperately trying to find the gist
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Life Alone

Alone I walk along the street
that special someone I desperately seek
That person to come and make me smile
Yet I walk alone on my second mile
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ah

Ah Darling Desired so Desperately Draw deep drowsy yawn Drown me with tears Drape me dry Dear spring Ah February 27, 2022
Form: Ninette

Premium Member Youth

Inebriated with life youth, the old age abhors but desperately to be embraced by it strives! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
      26 January 2017
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Honesty

Honesty-an orphan lost in the streets of apathy-desperately seeking a foster home to find!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       19 August 2018
Form: Monoku

Deep Thinker

There was an eligible undertaker
Who married a trouble-maker.
She gave him such grief
He desperately sought relief.
So he forthwith did under take her.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Alarm clocks are my enemy

Like to stay up late
Brutal mornings always roll around too soon
So desperately need more Zzzz's



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Putting a stop to the pain

Everything seems so desperately dark.
Hope is but a mirage that's outdated.
Giving up... easy way out.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Deeply, Dearly, Desperately

I am wanting so much to kiss your thin lips so deeply.
I find myself here simply missing you oh so dearly.
I'm longing for your body to be against mine desperately.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member In the Last Dream Before Waking

I sleep restlessly
Clinging, grasping, desperately
To what I must let go 
In the last dream before waking 
I am water that cuts stone

December 31, 2017

Desperately Looking For a Girl of My Life

"Desperately looking for a girl of my life",
In the newspaper the ad from a  man.
He got the offers:- one hundred and ten.
All as one wrote: " Please, take my wife!"
Form: Quatrain

Tossed Around

That word
flying around
wingless
desperately seeking
an owner
funny...I smile
Came knocking
told it to come back
can hang around
"I'll call you when I'm ready...ok?"

Premium Member Plaintive Thoughts, Delicate Distress

  Delicate distress of the loon
     beckons plaintive thoughts

  return home, as they wriggle 
     desperately away from where
        
        our past confronts us

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