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Short Wailing Poems

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


Premium Member Frail and Feeble
twist to the tale
leaves us wailing
how frail we are...

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Categories: wailing, lost,
Form: Than-Bauk



Premium Member Appalachian Trail
Deserted cabins
Trees gnarled by wailing winds
The sound of a bear...

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Categories: wailing, adventure, animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
Highland Gales
wailing banshee
  screams through cottage -
  morning brings calm...

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Categories: wailing, weather,
Form: Haiku
War
The impending doom

Sirens wailing all around 

Bombs bursting in air...

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Categories: wailing, deep, emotions, war,
Form: Haiku
Death Call
Nature's alluring call
in deep sleep of death
wailing night fades to bleak...

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Categories: wailing, death,
Form: Haiku



The Rain Stick
unkempt heads wailing
lively feet dance and stomp~
soothing raindrops fall...

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Categories: wailing, adventure, fantasy, imagination, native american, nature, places,
Form: Haiku
Death's Token Veil
solemn dirge wailing
black-cloaked pall bearers enter
innocent child smiles...

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Categories: wailing, death
Form: Senryu
Midwife
Midwife
dressed in blue-black
entered labor ward
terrified of wailing pregnant ladies
vanished...

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Categories: wailing, devotion, irony,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Red Dawn
horizon aglow
wandering winds wailing wisps
storm clouds flaming red 

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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Categories: wailing, nature,
Form: Haiku
Counting the Beads
Much wailing at the wall
With three hail Mary’s
A nod towards Mecca
Let us sit and
Count 
Beads...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wailing, funny
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wailing Crows
The grey crows light cavern, wailing in web tavern
as lemurs juice pattern, sky from earth to Saturn....

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Categories: wailing, anger, blue, character, destiny, gothic, grief, halloween,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member One Sunless Day
sudden wailing storm
in the gutter a baby quail
lies dying. . . slowly

For Rick Parise's "Haiku You"...

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Categories: wailing, nature, sad
Form: Haiku
War Zone
flesh ... torn, mangled
faces wailing, stricken
gutters steep in coagulated blood
blood splatter silent moon....

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Categories: wailing, moon, silence, war,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Storm
She is the storm, whirling with wailing wind,
drifting in clouds of darkness,
veiled in flashes of angst....

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Categories: wailing, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Kimo
Waiting Wishes
Wishing wasn't worldly known
worried weary were the stones
watching waiting wailing stars
wanted wishes to be ours....

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Categories: wailing, imagination
Form: Rhyme
Death Bed
sullen death-bell tolls
for my own absconding soul
no wailing required
as my skirmishing-days past
my ultimate doom is close...

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Categories: wailing, death,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member A Wailing Ghost
Up sharp plus weak bear with peak schism light ark love reigns.
Written: January 10 2022...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wailing, analogy, inspirational, light, love,
Form: Than-Bauk
Bagpipes
Bagpipes
Wailing noises
Learners seldom impress
Neighbours often threaten lawsuits
Windbags

Jack Horne for Nette’s Melody cinquain contest...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wailing, music,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Woken Up From Sleep
woken up from sleep

  baby now wailing non-stop...

  mom not pleased with dad.



Date written: 05/14/2020...

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Categories: wailing, baby, cry, family, humor, husband, wife,
Form: Senryu
Con Fusion
The Wailing Wall is standing tall
So men may bang their head and bawl
But burka girls
Must hide their curls
So no one can see their tears fall...

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Categories: wailing, religion,
Form: Limerick
Vor Der Abendröte / Before Sunset
Klagen werden laut
Die Sonne verfinstert sich
Kurz vor der Abendröte


Raising sounds of wailing 
The sun grows dark 
Shortly before sunset...

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Categories: wailing, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Weeping Widow
The weeping widow wept as she tended to his fatal wounds, the winds whispered through the woods, the widows wailing woke the howlings of the wolves....

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Categories: wailing, death,
Form: Alliteration
Red Hearts
Gray clouds drip and drop;

Dry earth with globules of blood.

Red hearts sing their song

To tears, wailing long;

To bells, ding and dong.....

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Categories: wailing, death,
Form: Tanka
Burden
Failing of sins afflict the soul within.
Jesus carries the life of the law in you.
Be the wailing of sorrows in prayer.
For Jesus sees them there....

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Categories: wailing, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Symphony of Sorrow
Hell's symphony composed by devil himself using the wailing and sorrow of wretched souls!







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
       19 October 2016...

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Categories: wailing, evil, pain,
Form: Monoku

Book: Shattered Sighs