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Pain Poems | Examples of Pain Poetry

Pain Poems - Examples of all types of pain poetry to share and read. This list of pain poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of pain poetry. This list of works about pain is an excellent resource for examples on how to write pain poems.
Premium Member Emotive Eloquence Of Silence
Enchanted by the mirage of florid ecstasy, the flower in my desiccated heart blossomed when your charisma drizzled on me like the soothing rare summer rain of oasis. The flame of my heart was stoked by the...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, lost love, pain,
Form: Free verse



Appearances
The distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, city, cry, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of the Forgotten
In the shadowed alcove of memory, Where forgotten dreams curl like smoke, I wander, a spectral seeker, Tracing the edges of existence. The moon, a pale witness, Hangs low, its silver gaze unyielding, As if it...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, age, anxiety, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
When Silence Speaks
This poem is written for the "When Silence Speaks" poetry contest. Date Submitted: 07/05/2024 the air conditioner soothing my heated skin fire brick curtains with their red dyed orange, bumblebee rays peeking through gaps in between they have so...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, change, metaphor, mirror, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil Inside
Sometimes I feel the devil rising ...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, angst, anxiety, conflict, hope,
Form: Rhyme



reverie
An existential crisis Left to my own devices Not an ounce of assistance Never show any resistance Just comply and let it be Dignity isn't a necessity I'm not the flower you'd pick from a garden Orchids are beautiful, I'm a sight...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, 12th grade, age, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Leave of absence This is NOT a poem Just my real life
Hey all I know that I haven't been active on here for a while. I've been having some health issues lately that have been keeping me sidelined. That and trying to mentally prepare for a...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, absence, fear, health, how
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Love - NFC
‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.’ - Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus While we’re in the vertiginous first throws of being in love, Cupid across bows fired seemingly randomly,...Read the rest...
Categories: love, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Touch a Raw Nerve
perception’s belief… until deception’s beneath ~ despair is bequeathed ...Read the rest...
Categories: faith, pain, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Incarnate
Angels are unable to handle these 'Sylvia Plath' sorrows, hiding their halos - mute to my concerns. Love has abandoned me, left me to decay in an open grave, where flesh eating insects devour my motionless corpse. Yet, I'm a victim of...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, dark, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empathizing
Empathizing Miracle Man 5/4/2024 We can’t feel some other’s pain but we can empathize, we search our heart’s for comforting words to verbalize. Pain we can’t feel, To them, is so real, their need is words of comfort, not someone to...Read the rest...
Categories: feelings, pain,
Form: Limerick
Eyes are the Windows to the Soul
They say eyes are the windows to the soul, Hiding behind a facade taking its toll. Saying you're fine when you're anything but, In your mind, chaos beginning to strut, Behind a smile so bright, Masking...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, 9th grade, anxiety, cute,
Form: Rhyme
More
I know what you mean But it doesnt hurt any less I wished you were more. ~ PoeticSoul...Read the rest...
Categories: pain, emotions, first love, hurt,
Form: Haiku
Unseen hurt
I am hurt And you can not see The hurt that i have Is inside of me You cant see the pain I live with everyday This is the kind of hurt That does not go away It didnt happen overnight It...Read the rest...
Categories: hurt, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Pain
Rid me of the pain of this world for I have my own pain to bear Everytime they look at me it feels I'm burned by their stare Like I stole one of their limbs...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, pain,
Form: Rhyme

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