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Wailing Poems - Poems about Wailing

Premium Member Wailing Edge of Madness
In warmth I lay, the hearth aglow the winter winds do softly blow and with the moon’s pale silver light I sink into the arms of silent night. the blankets soft the room so still a peaceful hush a restful thrill. I close my eyes to dreams I flee embraced in calm… so blissfully. But hark—what sound—what eerie cry— a tremor stirs beneath my...

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Categories: wailing, death, emotions, fear, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Wailing for her Demon Lover
I used to just paint and not worry about my dogs Who were running crazily up and down our road Because I thought it was a slow country lane I had no idea until one of them dug under the neighbor’s fence That this road is used by approximately nineteen trucks an hour. Where are they going? This road leads...

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Categories: wailing, dog,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wailing Children
Written: January 16, Contest: 2025 posted Short form, Judged 1/19/2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ gunshots thud, piercing silence one mad man, a world of terror Burnt air__ witnesses every...

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Categories: wailing, anger, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wailing Boy
The other day I lay for an echo of my heart The technician scanned my chest and sides I could hear my heart pant aloud Oh boy! Was that a chugging train, a distant wail, water gurgling, or a rhythmic rub inside an empty tub? The guy sure was at frantic speed wailing all the while Thank the Lord He has made sure we never...

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Categories: wailing, heart,
Form: Free verse
Death Tree
It's roots are a foothold To a mainstay stem That shoots arms so strong To hold person and string Rope and note in his bag Dire fully, he scrutinizes it Till he locates a stronger hand Fit to send him to dead-land Throngs are amassed, astounded Officers seek for testaments His loved ones are richly wailing Now he's like a drooping ceiling...

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Categories: wailing, anxiety, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme



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,
Form: Alexandrine
Wailing Idols of Wood
Under the sun and moon, flawed men linger in the cold Who in the mist of darkness, cut and rip apart trees eons old While stepping on grass and insects for wood to be sold Deaf to the pleas the light within makes to them while men seek for gold To make for themselves gods...

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Categories: wailing, dark, horror, insect, irony,
Form: Musaddas
The Morning Cuppa
I love it, Our morning ritual of tea, Just you and me. But the milkman, and the maid The kids wailing, Like the newly awoken dead Won’t have it. Gotterdammerung They scream. Or something That sounds Just like it. Tea gone cold. The morning Feels old....

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Categories: wailing, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Wailing Wall
People today are fat, not swift, So The Western Wall needs a lift* But here's the rub An ancient tub Saves each tear as temple gift *(lift="elevator")...

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Categories: wailing, religion,
Form: Limerick
Sound of Sorrow
They have slept with their fathers Shall we seek for revenge? Even the emotions could no longer contain our sisters All we sing now is dirge. I could hear the wailing of infants and cry of women the sound of swords clanging and shouting of men Everywhere... I see darkness Death! like we had no fortress Shall we seek for revenge? ......

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Categories: wailing, cry, death, horror, repetition,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Western Wailing Woolysaur
A brand new documentary A first for archeology The Western Wailing Woolysaur He’d never spotted one before Neither had he seen one dead It’s very spikey and it’s red The spikes it has are everywhere Some poke through its wooly hair It’s wailing cries assault the ears Imagine the primeval fears Of prey that found this crimson beast With all its spines, prepared to feast He...

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Categories: wailing, animal, humorous, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Threat of War
A Threat of W A R So weep, dear world, as The bear advances. The bear with his trainer named Putin, Loved by none, now not even his own. So end your roar, dear bear! As Putin thrills to cause disarray, Loving his terror — that weapon He’s loosed again, yet again — On the world’s lesser… His finger on a trigger, Making the...

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Categories: wailing, anxiety, conflict, future, international,
Form: Alliteration
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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Categories: wailing, analogy, inspirational, light, love,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member Wailing Willow
Willow wail Through spoil storms Trend is harsh. Strength is right. Glory grace conceals life's grief. Our souls yearn for home. Written: January 09, 2022...

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Categories: wailing, analogy, angst, cry, tree,
Form: Shadorma
Premium Member I Hear Wailing Screaming Keening
deep in the back of a forty acre plot of land there is a house most cannot abide many have heard the rumors and still cannot find it I hear wailing screaming keening shrieks from the house of the dead being clairaudient has its drawbacks when you add clairsentient to that, it is crazy I smell the smoke, and my...

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Categories: wailing, scary,
Form: Free verse

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