Poems About Despair by Top Critiquers
#despair
Poems about despair by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
PAR
Poem Published
12th Jan 2025 5:57pm
12th Jan 2025 5:57pm
Across the Land
For even on the highway to hell,
no redemption is found.
The detour leads deeper
where shadows confound.
No solace, no escape,
just eternal descent
Into the abyss
where suffering is sent.
no redemption is found.
The detour leads deeper
where shadows confound.
No solace, no escape,
just eternal descent
Into the abyss
where suffering is sent.
#angels
#dark
#despair
#heaven
#hell
69 reads
8 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
25th Nov 2024 5:34pm
25th Nov 2024 5:34pm
Beautiful Nightmare
Spellbound by this heartbreaking love
He is frozen under a pale moonlight
The countless nights of hell tell a tale
That burns at the core every night
And yet in the yearning there is an ecstasy
An exquisite torture of pleasure and pain
Where paradise and perdition intertwine
When his lips bleed by speaking her name
It all goes back to the first time they met
Bodies and spirits felt so damn attracted
But when she looked deep into his eyes
He felt as if his soul had been extracted
Her smiles and...
He is frozen under a pale moonlight
The countless nights of hell tell a tale
That burns at the core every night
And yet in the yearning there is an ecstasy
An exquisite torture of pleasure and pain
Where paradise and perdition intertwine
When his lips bleed by speaking her name
It all goes back to the first time they met
Bodies and spirits felt so damn attracted
But when she looked deep into his eyes
He felt as if his soul had been extracted
Her smiles and...
#despair
#UnrequitedLove
165 reads
8 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
1st Nov 2024 1:29pm
1st Nov 2024 1:29pm
London Bridge is Falling Down
"London Bridge is falling down..."
in the nightshade of the unhinged mind
decaying from within a breathless soul
naked unadorned fading into obscurity
from an agnostic path of despair
listening to voices from the grave
in the abstract of obsessive schizophrenia
"London Bridge is falling down..."
in the nightshade of the unhinged mind
decaying from within a breathless soul
naked unadorned fading into obscurity
from an agnostic path of despair
listening to voices from the grave
in the abstract of obsessive schizophrenia
"London Bridge is falling down..."
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
102 reads
0 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
30th Nov 2021 00:53am
30th Nov 2021 00:53am
The Dark Fires Of Miss. Saigon (Act III of Act III)
My love my whispers are getting faint to speak
The demons’ fog swirls and circles my feet
Obscuring my sight, my war for freedom is getting weak
Torrents of pain, silenced voices, weary faces without names
Sacrifices of blood on the pentagram of pain
Blackness comforting the steps of my feet
The stench of humanity’s disobedience, roasting in a lake of fire as consecrated meat
Death in my disgraced dishonor birthed in the name of love
The passage of the abyss is narrow I tarry in...
The demons’ fog swirls and circles my feet
Obscuring my sight, my war for freedom is getting weak
Torrents of pain, silenced voices, weary faces without names
Sacrifices of blood on the pentagram of pain
Blackness comforting the steps of my feet
The stench of humanity’s disobedience, roasting in a lake of fire as consecrated meat
Death in my disgraced dishonor birthed in the name of love
The passage of the abyss is narrow I tarry in...
#love
#tragedy
#UnrequitedLove
#despair
#suicide
657 reads
7 Comments
dimpy
dimpsmoon
dimpsmoon
Poem Published
25th Aug 2024 8:07pm
25th Aug 2024 8:07pm
alan kurdi
it was
stunned
when
instead of
the holy river,
an incomplete
childhood
came floating
in its lap...
stunned
when
instead of
the holy river,
an incomplete
childhood
came floating
in its lap...
#despair
#sadness
177 reads
13 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
24th Jan 2025 9:00pm
24th Jan 2025 9:00pm
I miss you more than you could ever know.
How much time has flown by - so much, so little.
But her memory is kept in me. I was afraid to admit...
I guess I still am, that she will never come back.
That I won't see her smile, that I won't feel her hugs.
How much she sacrificed just to bring me into this world.
She never gave up on me despite her own health.
And once I knew, would things have been different?
If she had listened to the doctors, and everyone else.
When I was a child it was so hard to take care of her.
Especially through the relapses and affects of treatment.
I...
But her memory is kept in me. I was afraid to admit...
I guess I still am, that she will never come back.
That I won't see her smile, that I won't feel her hugs.
How much she sacrificed just to bring me into this world.
She never gave up on me despite her own health.
And once I knew, would things have been different?
If she had listened to the doctors, and everyone else.
When I was a child it was so hard to take care of her.
Especially through the relapses and affects of treatment.
I...
#depression
#despair
#emptiness
#mother
#suffering
174 reads
24 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
6th Jan 2021 7:23pm
6th Jan 2021 7:23pm
grand prix
in hell,
there is
no finish
line.
there is
no finish
line.
#despair
349 reads
8 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
26th Apr 2024 2:41am
26th Apr 2024 2:41am
Nature
I used to write about nature
in its truest sense –
the whisper of pine needles
heady scent of moss
rioting dandelions
and hooting owls
The way that dewdrops cling
to the border of kale leaves in the garden
and how the stars tell stories
of my magnificent smallness
I still perceive this poetry
all around me
But I’ve become consumed of late
with the nature of humans
untangling ill-fated attachments
to wounded avoidants
that painful natural cycle
I just can’t break
And...
in its truest sense –
the whisper of pine needles
heady scent of moss
rioting dandelions
and hooting owls
The way that dewdrops cling
to the border of kale leaves in the garden
and how the stars tell stories
of my magnificent smallness
I still perceive this poetry
all around me
But I’ve become consumed of late
with the nature of humans
untangling ill-fated attachments
to wounded avoidants
that painful natural cycle
I just can’t break
And...
#apathy
#despair
#NaPoWriMo2024
#nature
#relationships
171 reads
8 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
14th Nov 2024 00:05am
14th Nov 2024 00:05am
his last night down the pub ..
the old bloke was last seen
in the kings arms
imploringly held out in front of
him there was nothing
in the kings arms
imploringly held out in front of
him there was nothing
#alcohol
#despair
#emptiness
71 reads
1 Comment
InDreamz
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 5:41pm
19th Oct 2024 5:41pm
Why?
When I see you cry,
I see an ocean
in your eyes,
drowning you from inside.
A tempest raging;
scarlet scarring your skies...
Heat of your pain
like a thick fog
damping your sight...
A silent scream
"O god why..."
I see an ocean
in your eyes,
drowning you from inside.
A tempest raging;
scarlet scarring your skies...
Heat of your pain
like a thick fog
damping your sight...
A silent scream
"O god why..."
#despair
#LifeStruggles
#loneliness #SelfReflection
#loneliness #SelfReflection
185 reads
16 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
9th Dec 2024 2:05am
9th Dec 2024 2:05am
Dying of thirst in my empty Kool-Aid pitcher
Men have begged
for my love
women too,
and I gave it
to him
as easily
as blowing the
fuzz off
a dandelion
and I asked him to
keep me safe
from the head games
I play with myself
Long story short:
He said no.
So I’m drinking a lot.
He said no.
And I want to know what
the actual fuck is
socially wrong
in having
an
inbox
just
for
one
It's like being surrounded
by desperation-fueled
soul-desiccation,
where the...
for my love
women too,
and I gave it
to him
as easily
as blowing the
fuzz off
a dandelion
and I asked him to
keep me safe
from the head games
I play with myself
Long story short:
He said no.
So I’m drinking a lot.
He said no.
And I want to know what
the actual fuck is
socially wrong
in having
an
inbox
just
for
one
It's like being surrounded
by desperation-fueled
soul-desiccation,
where the...
#breakup
#despair
#emptiness #heartbroken
#emptiness #heartbroken
247 reads
20 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
31st Jan 2025 3:17pm
31st Jan 2025 3:17pm
The NO Sign
Tired
is telling yourself no
but knowing you have to say yes
and so you carry on
Exhausted
is hearing the word NO
screaming at you
but turning down the volume
carrying on your duties
ignoring the shouting
though you hear it
every minute
of every day
Beyond exhausted
is tripping over the word NO
bruising yourself all over
getting up,
carrying on your daily routine
Running head first
into the NO sign
as it smashes you in the face
breaking your nose
and bloodying your mouth ...
is telling yourself no
but knowing you have to say yes
and so you carry on
Exhausted
is hearing the word NO
screaming at you
but turning down the volume
carrying on your duties
ignoring the shouting
though you hear it
every minute
of every day
Beyond exhausted
is tripping over the word NO
bruising yourself all over
getting up,
carrying on your daily routine
Running head first
into the NO sign
as it smashes you in the face
breaking your nose
and bloodying your mouth ...
#anxiety
#despair
#FeelingLost
49 reads
4 Comments
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