Short Desperation Poems
Short Desperation Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Desperation by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Desperation by length and keyword.
Tangled
desperation forced
tangled warrior I am
lies and crooked hearts...
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Categories:
desperation, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Senryu
Quiet Desperation
Leviathan vows
learned love life eventuals
jailed social confines...
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Categories:
desperation, allusion, betrayal, emotions, love hurts, people, society,
Form:
Haiku
Wise gardener
In desperation
she used her gardening skills
saving life of plant...
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Categories:
desperation, garden,
Form:
Haiku
Insidious Insanity
The madness, it burns
and smells of desperation.
Lone and desolate....
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Categories:
desperation, angst, life, people
Form:
Senryu
Footsteps
Frustration
leads to
Desperation...
it doesn't
lead back...
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Categories:
desperation, anxiety, future, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Desperation
Offering toonie and two tim bits,
For two more joints with those good hits....
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Categories:
desperation, addiction, drug,
Form:
Crystalline
Lost love
Why lay down crying in desperation over a lost love when you can find love again...
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Categories:
desperation, love,
Form:
Monoku
Wounded
I am bleeding less, now that my index finger's in the wound, sir!
1/27/2019
(fiction!)...
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Categories:
desperation, humorous, hurt, military, pain, thanks, war,
Form:
Monoku
In Desperation
in desperation i call out for God
to soothe my aching heart
releasing the pounding in my head...
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Categories:
desperation, life, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Desperation
i dont want to drown
in unbearable sorroe
i dont want to be crushed
by the weight of despair...
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Categories:
desperation, health, life, sad,
Form:
I do not know?
Poetic Thorns
Poverty
Economically depressed
People are dying
Happiness is worth Annihilation
Desperation...
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Categories:
desperation, life,
Form:
Cinquain
Acrostic
Today, he is sledding iced streets. A city's rain yet freezes on roads here; every lad's pastime...
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Categories:
desperation, depression, hurt, suicide, weather, word play,
Form:
Acrostic
Clawed Branch
Discarded driftwood
clawed branch in desperation
where once it stood tall
....
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Categories:
desperation, death, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Addiction
Alienation
Desperation
Denial
Insomnia
Comatose
Tremors
Inferiority
Oblivious
Need more...
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Categories:
desperation, introspection, life, sad,
Form:
Acrostic
In Desperation
In desperation
Kindness may lead to anger
Hurtful ire in haste
Russell Sivey...
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Categories:
desperation, life,
Form:
Senryu
Desperation
If but one winner there can be
Please,oh please,let it be me
If there be more
Let mine come to the fore!...
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Categories:
desperation, funny,
Form:
Epigram
The Poet Who Quit His Day Job
His back against the wall
Utter desperation
Served up seven courses of verse
'Twas fear of starvation...
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Categories:
desperation, poetry, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Ultimatum
I rather be empty than free.
This is desperation.
pure
insanity
I feel cold winds against my face.
Finally....
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Categories:
desperation, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Desperation
Only five minutes can seem
like eons to a man trapped
in an elevator with
his mother-in-law.
April 19, 2017...
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Categories:
desperation, humor,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Prayer
Pleas of desperation
Require acts of faith by
Asking
Your father for answers to
Every problem needing
Resolution...
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Categories:
desperation, prayer,
Form:
Acrostic
Silenced
mouth unable to form words
then sounds of desperation
inspired by wisdoms presence
awestruck I retreat into silence...
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Categories:
desperation, inspiration, introspection, silence, wisdom, words,
Form:
Free verse
Retreat into Silence
mouth unable to form words
then sounds of desperation
inspired by wisdoms presence
awestruck I retreat into silence
...
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Categories:
desperation, inspiration, introspection, people, silence, sound, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Dark Chocolate
Eloquence of desperation,
majesty in the end
Elegance of sweet sorrow
—dying to contend
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)...
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Categories:
desperation, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Desperation
Desperately clinging to the side of the mountain
Trying to hold on
Just one wrong move
In that moment it’s all gone!...
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Categories:
desperation, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Savvy Sabbath Service
Lead us NOT into temptation
Just deliver copulation
You may think it odd
That we pray to God
But 'tis caused by desperation!...
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Categories:
desperation, lust,
Form:
Limerick