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Weltschmerz Poems - Poems about Weltschmerz


Premium Member Heart Gentle Eye Mindful
... Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air quiddity remorse core conve......

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Categories: weltschmerz, analogy, heart, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Desire, a hurtling horse on hire
...Man, seldom a straightforward animal, Long lost in the deserts of weariness, Wants to flee from a life of denial, Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash, And feeling hurt, he nurses hidd......

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Categories: weltschmerz, desire, dream, world,
Form: Ode



Rainy Day
...The melancholic, cold rain makes me sad. In the days of loud silence, rain always called on you. Your way into my thoughts and tears. * Color of lead on the sky; everything is grey. The blue is......

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Categories: weltschmerz, emotions, extended metaphor, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If the Day Dawns, At Last - Men's Group
...If the day dawns, at last, ‘Men’s Group’ (1) wants to address ‘loss’ (most feel in retirement), I’d jump at the chance! Let’s be fans! I am loath to leave ‘Men’s Group,’ but moved too, to let go (......

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Categories: weltschmerz, appreciation, blessing, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
Generic Germane Groveling Guy Still Wallows In Weltschmerz
...Yours truly does readily confess the following poem crafted more or less approximately a year ago, when coronavirus (COVID-19) wrought havoc creating global mess when panic against collective te......

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Categories: weltschmerz, 12th grade, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Forever, Love
...Forever, Love! I will love you, beloved, forever, though fish to your sea, where my poetry’s bones may be sand on a beach (waves divine on land’s shore): Clay’s discovere......

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Categories: weltschmerz, love, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Generic Germane Guy Wallows In Weltschmerz
...Along luscious green acres banks steep grade (in close proximity to Petticoat Junction) naturemade Perkiomen Valley watershed, verdant landscape displayed yours truly, (a garden variety proto ......

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Categories: weltschmerz, 12th grade, environment, humanity,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Pain of the World
...Saša Milivojev WELTSCHMERZ ("WORLD PAIN") - THE PAIN OF THE WORLD In this century withal Rivers of blood still flow Bombs echo Children are being killed Heads are being severed ......

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Categories: weltschmerz, depression, pain, sad, war,
Form: Epic
Weltschmerz Germane To Those Feeling Malaise
...Senescence concomitant and best buds with malaise despondency inescapable as infirmity ages formerly young gals guys though age just a "number" father time not shy to apprise every mortal wak......

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Categories: weltschmerz, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
It's Not My Job
...It's Not My Job by Rick Folker It's not my job to teach you of love; to pull you, pry you from your place of hate. It's not my job to lift you from willful ignorance when you elect a pr......

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Categories: weltschmerz, inspirational,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member In My New Years Resolution I Vow
...In My New Year’s Resolution I Vow I solemnly declare under oats on the libel to walk N aked with only a bellow with fellow utopians M istletoe tattoos on my fingers criss-crossing in ......

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Categories: weltschmerz, satire,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Sweet Servant of Satan
...So did you hear me calling? Of course, I mean you Indignation you're feeling Just proves that it's true. And your Bible says clearly That you’re born in sin It’s a paradox truly Your virtue c......

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Categories: weltschmerz, evil, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reasons Not To Visit Dachau
...It would be like a Cessna hitting a mountain; Weltschmerz; rain falling on a tin roof. So let me work my garden with burnt hands, Thoughtless as a spade in cold loam. Let all words fail as the da......

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Categories: weltschmerz, death,
Form: Free verse

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