Short Poems About Despair
#despair
Short poems about despair. 30 words or less, most recently published poems first.
Styxian
Poem Published
Today 2:17am
Today 2:17am
Watching The Fire
Getting it started was so easy
with a will of its own
(the way of nature and things)
We brought the kindling
and thus, we had fire
Keeping it going was no problem
So energetic, we sweated
yet tirelessly fed its hunger
Feeding the flames its constant needs
Because of what it gave us;
Making love in the still of night
and watching the fire
in the reflection of our crystal eyes
~
For all of our toils
we now had a house
to protect our fire
from its very mother ...
with a will of its own
(the way of nature and things)
We brought the kindling
and thus, we had fire
Keeping it going was no problem
So energetic, we sweated
yet tirelessly fed its hunger
Feeding the flames its constant needs
Because of what it gave us;
Making love in the still of night
and watching the fire
in the reflection of our crystal eyes
~
For all of our toils
we now had a house
to protect our fire
from its very mother ...
#despair
#sadness
58 reads
5 Comments
moon_bather
Poem Published
22nd Jan 2025 3:56am
22nd Jan 2025 3:56am
Existential Crisis
What happens
With these piles of paper
Once I meet
The Grim Reaper?
With these piles of paper
Once I meet
The Grim Reaper?
#dark
#death
#despair
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeCycle
66 reads
3 Comments
Lilliputian
Poem Published
17th Jan 2025 4:59pm
17th Jan 2025 4:59pm
Of No Use
What could a wilted flower do
Except crumble into miniscule fragments
And whisper in mind the words caught inside
What could a quiet flower of no use do
Except crumble into miniscule fragments
And whisper in mind the words caught inside
What could a quiet flower of no use do
#despair
#silence
#weakness #SelfWorth
#weakness #SelfWorth
61 reads
Lilliputian
Poem Published
15th Jan 2025 8:14pm
15th Jan 2025 8:14pm
Oceans I wept
At what depth must these oceans I wept
reach, for the sorrows—in which
I drowned—to subside?
reach, for the sorrows—in which
I drowned—to subside?
#despair
#sadness
57 reads
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Electra
Electra
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 2:53am
4th Jan 2025 2:53am
No Title.
That little girl's rotting corpse,
Still moans in my bones,
And no amount of makeup,
Could make her pretty again.
Still moans in my bones,
And no amount of makeup,
Could make her pretty again.
#childhood
#dark
#despair #grief
#despair #grief
130 reads
2 Comments
Nil
Nolan
Nolan
Poem Published
31st Dec 2024 00:00am
31st Dec 2024 00:00am
Koan 8
I'm.
Just.
Waiting.
To die.
And everyone.
Wants me.
To.
Live.
I rather.
Like.
Innocuously.
Day.
dreaming.
Just.
Waiting.
To die.
And everyone.
Wants me.
To.
Live.
I rather.
Like.
Innocuously.
Day.
dreaming.
#apathy
#despair
#disappointment #emptiness
#disappointment #emptiness
45 reads
0 Comments
Nil
Nolan
Nolan
Poem Published
30th Dec 2024 7:55am
30th Dec 2024 7:55am
Koan 7
I.
Get.
The feeling.
Everything.
Was pointless.
Anyway.
You and.
I.
Were.
Temporary.
Fantasies.
Get.
The feeling.
Everything.
Was pointless.
Anyway.
You and.
I.
Were.
Temporary.
Fantasies.
#despair
#sadness
#shame
59 reads
0 Comments
rksingh
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 10:26am
1st Dec 2024 10:26am
Explorations
Too small to explore
the sea of the unknown:
island existence
breathing hell of darkness
dreading hungry excursions
R K Singh
the sea of the unknown:
island existence
breathing hell of darkness
dreading hungry excursions
R K Singh
#anxiety
#confusion
#despair
#fear
#sadness
43 reads
0 Comments
Lilliputian
Poem Published
23rd Nov 2024 7:49pm
23rd Nov 2024 7:49pm
Life’s Cord
Held onto the umbilical cord,
Crawling out from my mother’s womb,
Only to truckle,
Crawling into the womb of your will,
Strangled by life’s cord.
Crawling out from my mother’s womb,
Only to truckle,
Crawling into the womb of your will,
Strangled by life’s cord.
#despair
#LifeStruggles
84 reads
Lilliputian
Poem Published
23rd Nov 2024 6:01pm
23rd Nov 2024 6:01pm
No Window
Young and confined
Bound within walls
No window
To breathe freedom
To take a glimpse
Of rainbows and butterflies
Beyond my bastille
Bound within walls
No window
To breathe freedom
To take a glimpse
Of rainbows and butterflies
Beyond my bastille
#despair
#FeelingTrapped
#sadness
79 reads
Lilliputian
Poem Published
21st Nov 2024 9:27pm
21st Nov 2024 9:27pm
The Wind's Exhale
The wind's exhale
Blew the trees' dead leaves flying
I hoped for mine to swirl away
Fading into thin air
Blew the trees' dead leaves flying
I hoped for mine to swirl away
Fading into thin air
#despair
73 reads
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
19th Nov 2024 10:50am
19th Nov 2024 10:50am
A Bright Future Lies Ahead
Mother & father
raising their son & daughter
growing them up just like you
their future floats dead in the water
raising their son & daughter
growing them up just like you
their future floats dead in the water
#children
#despair
#family #sadness
#family #sadness
70 reads
6 Comments
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