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Woe Poems - Poems about Woe

Woe Poems - Examples of all types of poems about woe to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for woe.
Premium Member My Mistress, the Moon
... From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak my naked shame, to veil my plight......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme



Help
...I exist, though my presence feels seldom acknowledged. Fighting replays of tunes to woe is me, my own Ted Talk; that unconscious internal victims speech. At the same time I am holding a safe space in......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
A Love Story
...We once stood on a narrow bamboo bridge And then I drew you closer and we kissed All of a sudden I grew oblivious To the circumstance, season, time, and place When both our bodies locked i......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, emotions, feelings, happiness, i
Form: Free verse
Unwanted
...In shadows cast by sorrow's shroud, There dwells a girl, her voice not loud, Unwanted whispers fill her mind, By kin, by friend, by spouse unkind. Alone she walks through halls of pain, In sol......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, anxiety, feelings, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Awkward
...bring out the candles for the crowds i see their faces dance in the flames tears where all the rage then talking to people from the stars they came in their multitudes troubled with woe and th......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



The Shady Ones
...Too bright the world maybe in eyes of different colours, but wicked eyes do fail to see the light in hearts of others. With warmth the sun shall shine on souls that overglow, undoubtful faith ......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, desire, evil, hate, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
The Waitress
... In the dim-lit corner of a forsaken cafe, I dwell alone, as time slips away. He strides in with an air of indifference, Yet his gaze betrays no hint of penitence. Briefly, our eyes entwine in s......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, abuse, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Then, the Good Old Days
...Then, the Good Old Days Better than what’s now, always This law, all obeys When, in good times past Bygones better, Everlast Nows always surpassed And, back further still Even better then,......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, funny, future, humorous, time,
Form: Senryu
We are the people of a new era, with patchwork hearts and longings in craters
...We are the people of a new era, with patchwork hearts and longings in craters, The generation of bold dreams sketched on shards of fallen stars. Let us not forget, let us breathe in: the source of ......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Cat's Litter
...James and Peter Found a messed up cat litter Close by at Peter's A cat is amiss The litter smells of cat's piss The missus remiss The miss is too slow To clean the cat's messy show The ca......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, animal, cat, hilarious,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Lessons Learned
...Wrong is shameful in both the old and wise, Take it from one who's lived long enough to know. Life is a stormy sea of wicked woe, And tears are no less wet from older eyes. ......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Thing Inside
...There is a thing inside It claws and gasps for breath Horrid thoughts reside Of the sweet release of death But it is death who in wrath Leaves me feeling so To find a now muddied path Reducing......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, break up, death, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Anomie
...In a never sleeping metropolis, In the dungeon of a room, My days and nights are locked! I am a traveler on a street, with no end in sight, But just the bustle of the moving crowd, And a handfu......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, betrayal, discrimination, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Ballade of Battlefronts of Mahabharata
...Where are now battle-braves essayed, Where did tears of joy, of pain go? Where, the rare braveries portrayed, Where did the blood that was shed flow? Duryodhan’s wrath wrapped up in woe, Dhrita......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, time, war,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Empathy
...If you see some one suffering yet choose to look away, ignoring their pain, go about your day.. In time this karma will be replayed.. Some people lack compassion you know. They show no empathy f......Read the rest...
Categories: woe, 1st grade, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

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