Short Lamentation Poems

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


Lamentation For My Son

Grief makes the sea turn
Red and it seems we're lost in
Indigo night, yet
Even death can't break our hearts
For love preserves our union
© Jim Howe  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka


Lamentation

Absent minds are proved by empty talk
We are sorry but it doesn’t help us
Empty hearts seem to be among folks
We can cry but it doesn’t save us
Form: Rhyme

Lamentation

Till the other day
As it seems rhododendrons
Walked with me, alas
Now superannuated 
stupidity after rhymes
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29/9/2016
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Lamentation

Oh, come now sweet rain
    And mingle with my last tear
    For I am tired
   The rose has dropped its petals
   There is nothing left but thorns


9/30/16
Form: Tanka

Crimson vision

Wilful wounding
by shrouded diktat
caging vision
in scarlet pangs.
Numb to lamentation
silver and gold chink.
Amid the rustle
of lamé gowns
silence is nailed
secure.


Xylophones

Able bodied children dead! 
Even fate grieves hopelessly 
In justified keening, lamentation, mourning.
Not one pacifier! 
Queens royally sejant...
Troops under vultures' wings,
Xylophones yack zealously...
Form: ABC

Premium Member Lamentation

The seashore holds me in grief entwined with moss and nettle; while thud of echoes returns more shrill than a gull's lament... In decibels of love passing I hunger for night's soft caress.
Form: Verse

A Tree

Your branches like arms
you suck me
growth in my breast

Your roots merge in vanes
your hair blows with winds
and play in my laps

You beat me when you get hurt
I fell into lamentation
And I think of you my baby
© Litan Dey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Oleaginous Material

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                    Oleaginous material, produces threnody in waterfowl.
         Their dirge_a lamentation reaches up to the third heaven__God.
                And all the women wore antimony on their eyelids to view..
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Chelated Soul's De-Lamentation

Chelated Souls’ De-lamentation 

Lovers dejected
lick wounds remonstrate lonely
sorrow ‘til they meet
mate seduce in sex love rock
roll in minds soul mingled hay


26th September 2016
Contest Lament A Tanka
Syllable 5 7 5 7 7 =31
Form: Tanka

Lamentation

bemoaning I drown ebony triumphs your gold- such a strong soul, yet weakened by lamentation- the taste of salt still l i n g e r s…
Lament Contest Sponsor: Rick Parise Date Written: September 25, 2016
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Good Show

Put on a good show
For the people in the front row
Can’t express your true feelings
With a sack on your head
The living dead
On the ground kneeling
Your hands tied
Behind your back
On a one-way ride
On a one-way track
Conceal the lamentation
It’s all in the presentation
Form: Verse

Premium Member Desires Gain Traction

Desires gain traction, as we choose Dream crystallisation There then thus being no excuse For fate lamentation Be still lama, choose joy Devoid of ego ploy Reclaim bliss; be not coy Law of attraction Desires gain traction 20-November-2021 Quietus
joy
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Missing Inspiration

This white paper screams at me And I yell back The more I sit here staring at it The worse it gets Where did my muse go to today Down the drain? I think I need some inspiration For this is nothing Not a poem, not a story, just a pathetic lamentation See you tomorrow ;)

Lamentation

LAMENTATION(A Quintain)

When my memory goes to work,I feel lost and down,
For oppression and poverty which many result to fate,
In abundance,few usurp power and so many suffer these I frown,
Corruption,theft,moral decadence multiply at a faster rate,
Oh!Mother nature,Good and bad;how can both mate?
sad

Ebola

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Ending the life of the innocents   
Both sexes and ages you destroy, to
Offer widows and inconsolable orphans;
Lamentation and mourning to my motherland
Africa
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Form: Acrostic

septembers lamentation

    september laments
    while the passages of time ~
    end her fashion show

    autumn's falling leaves
    where trees stand stark sentinel ~
    skylines silhouette

    natures saving grace
    leaves silently lie in state ~
    richly turn to dust

    9/ 26/ 2024
Form: Haiku

Lamentation In Silence

Silence shrouds the sound of his emotions
They shout so loud, yet you hear nothing.
Not because they lost their voice, but because
Of the loudness of the silence.
His lamentation searches for a way,
For a way to something; to someone?

Silence is now against him, not for him
Such power in nothingness, in 'the mute'.

Drawback

Most if not always 
my consequences rest
in lamentation of spirit. 
End if not means, 
that crime is a call break
of thought bearing geniuses
I guess, if not pretention
That I am a man. 
That everything I bare is an ordeal. 
And every ordeal is quite alarming, 
Wither we may loss or won, 
Is a drawback in His time.

If

If not the clipper in the Saharan grasslands 
Then brother be the zipper to fasten the ethos 
Afrika mourns of today. Lamentation the dry
Ingredient to our sorrows that craft dispare.
Look at how they fattens alike baobab fat yet
I'm proudly a street hustler, bustling trickster 
Thins a biltong shred in toils for sustainance...

Pain or Pleasure?

When they took him there
did you hear what they did?
Was there call or grunt?
Laugh or scream?
Joy or lamentation?

We perform the strangest or most grotesque
of auditory communications.
Such a mixed bag, such a miscellany!
Torture or tickle? Titillation or skin sensation?
Can we choose to hear pain or pleasure?

(13 Feb 2023)

Lamentation of a Lost Heart

The moon had risen its light
Into my bosom taking a flight.
Lofted from pedestal, arise
from this life's caprice
so delight
still but cries.
Life's mortality lowed, renounce
Its memories; never pronounce
The blades, the grass forbade.
Yet the cup of mad,
the death, announce:
Love is bad.
If you yourself, befall;
Then you yourself, a fool.
Form:

The Bramble Rose

In the depths of some divine despair,
the wind stirs softly.
With a prayer from her soul’s deep core –
a plea in awful repose…

A melancholy crack in the smile she wears,
with mildly stern eyes in command;
and silent lips of a paler-hue:
remain filled with lamentation.

The Bramble rose
wears a thin veil
to cover cool radiance in glorious eyes:
virtually perfect…
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Lamentation of a Lonely Lepidopterist

Butterflies are my life and my profession, yet I face my fixation question. My study of pheromones left you on your own. This made you moan for one who worshipped you alone and might my neglect atone To which I offer my confession butterflies are my life and my profession.
Form - Andaree https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/tag/11-lines/
Form: Other

The Pistol of the Priest

The Pistol of the Priest

When the world resurrected
from a hanging hole between the thighs.
The body brought  out with  all his animals ,
The priest  brought out , 
carrying a pistol,
 surrounded by the corpses  of the roses, 
and the lamentation of the angels .
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A poem by : Khaled Kheshan (Iraqi Poet)
Translated by : Laith Seher

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