Misery

1 Comments

Tags:
  • Lost Love
    • Poetster
    • is reading poems and hopes others can return the favor with honest critique..

    Misery

    Misery

     

    By every altar mourns with woe

    one with sorrow crushed.

    Is my faith so much to give?

    Will you ever come to me—ever again?

    Your face gleams in the dim expanse of night,

    but fear creeps out into the first light of day;

    out of a surging sea of blood flecked waves,

    where hope is dashed upon a savage shore

    that is sorely tempest tossed, and is soon swallowed up

    in a dark that long out-burns the day,

    where winter solstice likes to the shortened light.

    Long eternity should greet my bliss,

    for swift death is bliss to men in misery.

    Poem Comments

    (1)

    Please login or register

    You must be logged in or register a new account in order to
    leave comments/feedback and rate this poem.

    Login or Register

    cmlestrade commented on Misery

    09-26-2009

    I loved misery, the rhythm, the sounds of the words the structure everything about it except I did not understand it. Rather than over analyze a beautiful well written work I just enjoyed it for all those reasons.

    Poetster

    09/28/2009

    Written at a time when someone special to me had left me. My dreams, at night were filled with her, but the day always brought sadness because she was still absent, so I feared the day and lived for the night and my dreams. But my hopes were never answered, hence the metaphor out of a surging sea of blood flecked waves, where hope is dashed upon a savage shore that is sorely tempest tossed. Yet my hope continued through the long nights, hence-- and is soon swallowed up in a dark that long out-burns the day, where winter solstice likes to the shortened light. At time I felt that death would be less cruel than existing without her. Hence--Long eternity should greet my bliss, for swift death is bliss to men in misery.

    Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

    Poetster’s Poems (36)

    Title Comments
    Title Comments
    Dedication For Linda 0
    Sonnet for Life 2
    Mad Is The Heart of Love 0
    The Gallows Call 1
    Epitaph 2
    In Restless Dreams 0
    Dream Lost 0
    For The Children's Tears 2
    In The Sunrise of Her Eyes 0
    Past Promises 1
    My Depthless Love 1
    Why must one yearn with all one's soul 1
    The Forgotten 1
    Sands of My Hour Glass 1
    In Essence My Life 2
    Beyond 0
    Wait for Me there 1
    Misery 1
    Lost Horizons 1
    Paused 2
    To Set You Free 2
    Only the Memories Remain 0
    The Voice of Night 0
    Tilting at Windmills 2
    Gaze on through tomorrow 2
    I weep 1
    Lost in that moment 0
    Tapestry 0
    Forsaken 0
    Longing for a love with invisible shores 1
    Unfurling Silk 1
    Her face 0
    Take 0
    Destiny 0
    Poetry 1
    Picking Dandelions 2