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Misfortune Poems - Poems about Misfortune

Misfortune Poems - Examples of all types of poems about misfortune 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 misfortune.
A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
...A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway (route 76) both heading into (and a small number of hours later exiting) center city Philadelphia to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024. Yours truly......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse



In the shadow of the night, on the corridors of magical silence, keeping the sacred secret
...In the shadow of the night, on the corridors of magical silence, keeping the sacred secret, I would send souls in search of a love made of mist and torn pain, To transform sorrow into poetry, cheap......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Palindrome Limerick
...Miss, I am totally on the level Civic duty to call out the devil My bad deed radar is strong Also a good eye for wrong Madam, in misfortune I don't revel......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, words,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Delphic
...Title 1 "The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me." ... by Ralph Waldo Emerson The written word bears roots abound Hail favored mist of hallowed ground Announced ......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, appreciation, beautiful, caregiving, creation,
Form: Rhyme
The Root Cause
...Sometimes, better to dig it up Right from the root And expose it to daylight Cos' it's not good for a man to sleep all day And not wake up to his responsibilities It's not normal If he pushes......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, depression, husband,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Last Question
...Time an elusive thread, Unraveling mysteries, yet time remains unread and unknown. From birth to death, its secrets keep winding, Yet its origin, and ours, reprove our theories. A journey ......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, destiny, father, humanity, imagination,
Form: Other
Premium Member Cocoon
... "Cocoon" They say... a New World traces over the old, leaving the unaware, erased, far behind the old unaware, left far behind, crawls the walls in its web of ......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member No Laughing Matter
...He who laughs at others misfortune Must really be crying inside And he who selflessly helps others Must have a heart that's ten feet wide......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus
...Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus... courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace Acrimonious scurrilous words flew out the mouth of vicious nasty shortish brute leaving yours t......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, abuse, analogy, anger, april,
Form: Free verse
odium amplexus
...Come the morning, we will shed The tears of infants, painted red. Mother's love can save the child But not the mother from her death. Soon the child will grow up hated, then the voices soon ab......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog just me and mine dark shadow slinking along outer limits of the edge of night doth blog passivity, the p......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to Pot Holes
... Oh gaping chasm of misfortune A sign of council extortion? Roads not fit for purpose Driving makes us nervous Neglect of civil responsibility The cause of such hostility Oh pot hole why so ......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, car, corruption, england, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Wish I Had
... I wish I had... the power to change a broken man's circumstances. I'd flip his dim world back downside up, add colors and rays of sunshine to it, ......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, desire, introspection, perspective, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stuck in the Middle with You
...When you are alone, you look at the others and think that one had too much ... time to think and that one … well, you surmise, they are on the brink of some precipitous ... evaluati......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dweller in Paradise
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My domestic dwelling, hugs me like the first time my mother cradled me in her arms when I was born. It welcomes me, like a warm thick jacket put over my body......Read the rest...
Categories: misfortune, home, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

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