Short Woeful Poems

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


Out In a Rainfall

Out in a rainfall;
Hopeful but woeful waters,
Pitifully falls...
Lightning wretchedly dances,
Thunders echoed and resound...
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Wildflower


                                                  wildflower


wet wildflower wagging with woeful wild winds warms my wretched heart.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member CIRCADIAN ALLITERATION

Miserable MONDAY
Torrid TUESDAY
Woeful WEDNESDAY
Terrible THURSDAY
Frenzied FRIDAY
Sorrowful SATURDAY

SUBLIME SUNDAY....carpe diem PRAISE THE LORD

Premium Member Weekly Woes An Alliteration

Miserable MONDAY
Torrid TUESDAY
Woeful WEDNESDAY
Terrible THURSDAY
Frenzied FRIDAY
Sorrowful SATURDAY

SUBLIME SUNDAY....carpe diem PRAISE THE LORD
Form: List

Premium Member Soprano Red Dress

A red dress hangs in 
The black velvet clothing hook
Waiting to be wore 
For the woeful soprano
Who sings in a musical











3-12-2016
Form: Tanka


The Busker

Woeful 

Rueful 

Joyful 

Hopeful

Though he looked so woeful, rueful, pained
his music was joyful, hopeful, famed.

Composed 05/03/2017.


2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9.
© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tyburn

A marionette

A marionette of the void
Aware of the needle like strings,
Stranding on the edge of light
Yet covered by the veil of hollowness
A woeful homunculus, gazing at the abyss

Lies of Omission

Wounded, woeful woman.
Hostage of hindered hope.
Yowling, yearning, for you.

*1408 Acrostic Triplet Poetry Contest
*Sponsored by: Brian Strand
*Entered on: 08/31/2025
© Talia Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

A Woeful Family 2k12

Herein the throes of our family's tragedy,
Herein our woeful daze, we're not the defeated
Nor victors; Simply the bearer's of tragedy.
Yes, Jonas was here; Thence we're the cheated.
Form: Quatrain

Baby Blues

In bulging globes like sapphires strung,
A woeful moaning song is sung.
They flow like brooks.
Mysterious deep afflictions
Swim inside the wet reflections
Of this child's looks.

Premium Member Bird-of-Paradise



Silent warblers perch as garden’s crooners
With crest-petalled wings flapping as banners
All day long they exude unfading light
That no woeful glooms conceal their brightness.
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Zealots

Zealots zealous zealots zigzag running rampant, repeating dubious data drawn from fallacious forums which write woeful tales that try to teach lurid laughable lies

Woeful Vows

"Till death us do part"
Thus I stepped upon a trap;
Oh, Why I said that?
Now I wail to no avail,
Lo, my life is in shambles!



~A Brian Strand 1 to 14 line contest.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Bears Whipped 38-20

The woeful Chicago Bears football team
  Hibernated in caves this June to dream
    Of winning their first game 
    But they exited tame ~
  Green Bay Packers turned them into whipped cream
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Poetry

I Don’t know 
that poetry can light
anything,
beyond a page -- 

when the world 
in a loop 
of dark lows…

Though Heaven hears Mother’s 
woeful woes, Freewill her nursery's
obstacle….
© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A SOCCER ELEGY

Oh dear oh dear
where is the beautiful game?
behind its defensive wall
it seems passing back&forth
is now the be&end-all-
reactive not proactive & no guile
'wing-back' sums-up this woeful style
Form: Elegy

Premium Member Fueling Fires With Lies

can’t win improvise
             crocodile tears woeful cries 
                   hypocrites disguise
           endless feigning soul destroyed 
        truth turns to ash neath stone eyes
     
By 
David Kavanagh
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Worldwide Peace

woeful wanting world wages war,
wait, woodland wakens, wondrous wind instruments,
wafting whimsically,
wood nymphs waltz,
whooping cranes whish wherever,
woodpeckers woolgathering,
woebegone withers,
worldwide peace

Premium Member RIPPED RECOLLECTIONS

Woeful, my painful past, that leaves me woebegone for my loved ones now gone above. Full of melancholy and grief-stricken and lost in sad recollections. I have been crushed forlorn in thoughts and left, woeful.

Premium Member The Weeping Willow

Underneath the branches of weeping willow
We shared our flaming passion last night
But when this morning, the sun had risen               
Found the woeful tree, glowing with delight! 



© Demetrios Trifiatis
  16 SEPTEMBER 2014
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member woeful

on   a     s e a     of    w o e
    he    f   l   o   a   t   s   his longings
                                  to   an    e    m    p    t    y     
                                                                            shore
Form: Senryu

Hungry

Batting away 
the hold on me to 
rebuke all kindness 
to expel in blindness
the vomit that is dread. 

I fear too many things 
on an empty stomach, so
I inhale the final drops
of my woeful sustenance—
where are you, 
Little Hope?

Lend Thy Senses

How the words of the woeful
wane in the light by the waxing moon
How dismissive of our sorrows
are the shadows cast by tall oaks.
How precious the shimmer of stones
in play with the wind and waters

Bite Size Poem no.40 Poetry Contest

Rise and Fall

Rise
                          High, Tall
          Ascending, Emerging, Elevating 
   Climb, Escalation, Increase, Acceleration 
       Stumbling, Descending, Blundering
                        Low, Woeful
                              Fall
Form: Diamante

Hearts Rewritten

. for public domain

Love stories on our hearts rewritten,
imbued on parchment of those we've smitten
where whose love was laid to ruin and waste,

fibers with woeful letters erased
again and again, thin the paper,
til none remains to print one more story.

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