STRICKEN SOUL



Wounded sore the stricken soul
Lies bleeding and unbound
Tears of anguish flow
The broken heart of woe
Feels for all our grief

Broken heart and downcast eyes
Bound by many a chain
Heart weary, restless soul
Peace long sought
The calm of hills above

Shattered and bruised soul
Witching pleasures of vain world charm
Sore affliction and fear
Till the day breaks
And shadows flee

O paradise! O paradise!
Crave for your rest
Seeking for joyous land
In most holy sight
Of celestial realm

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Crave for your rest

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Written on December 10, 2021

Submitted by ID on December 10, 2021

Modified on March 10, 2023

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Scheme AXBBX XXAXX AXXXX XXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 486
Words 89
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5

Dr. Idowu James ADEKUNLE

Dr. adekunle is a poet, novelist, playwright, and literary scientist. more…

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  • Idris
    The poem talks about the suffering and how we pass through pain on earth
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Maleykhay
    The poem talks about a broken hearted person, suffering and hopefulness of people
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Mosunmola19
    This poem is talking about one who’s going through a hard time in his lonely soul and craving for rest in the hands of the most high
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Ayomikun
    Poem talks about the need for joy and seek for inner peace it also talks about the life of a broken hearted person and how the person yearns for joy ,peace and rest.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Beatricesabas
    This poem is all about the grief of an anguished soul, yearning for freedom, love, peace and affection.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Kabiru
    This poem is trying to explain the grief of a broken-hearted person and how the person craves love and support.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Neeka
    The poem talks about an individual who is going through a lot in life and seeks the face of God for rest peace of mind.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Ezinneamaka
    It talks about pain and suffering
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Oyinkings
    The author sympathises with the audience the sufferings,sorrow, trials and tribulation of life desperately wishing for the fast approach of the end of it all-"paradise".
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Jubril123
    The poem talks about the suffering, hardship challenge and struggle and how man also yearn for paradise.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Titilope
    This poem talk about struggling, suffering, and hopefullness of people on earth.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • ayantoyinbo_t
    The poem focuses on a broken man who is in so much pain and anguish and earnestly yearns for joy and peace and desperately craves for rest
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Omolola37
    The poem talks about the suffering, hardship challenge and struggle
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Temiloluwa
    The poem talks about the state of uncertainty which is full of fear and grief and looking forward for a better condition for habitat
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Oluyori
    This poem talks about how we pads through struggles, pain, fear and grief while yearning for peace of mind and happiness.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • ajadi_a
    what happens at the end of a mans journey... what is his faith when he meets with his maker
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • moyosore_o
    This poem talks about the struggles, sufferings, hopefulness people pass through but still having a mind of a better future and days in mind.
    This poem is related to a poem"naked soul" which is also telling how we follow the wrong path thinking it the right way .
    It talks about people wear mask to cover their shattered and bruised soul and wounded heart to make others believe they are okay. 
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Shalommmm
    This poem talks the struggle man passes through on earth and how man longs for a better life
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • tundun_t
    This poem talks about the struggles through hardship of man and how man also yearn for paradise.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Oyin
    The poem talks about the hardship,strife, sufferings and struggles of man here on earth.It talks more about how men go through pain
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Yetunde
    The poem is about the grief the writer experiences. The poet made use of ALLITERATION on the first and first line and first stanza of the poem.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Alaga
    The poem is emphasizing the inevitability of death.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Ojooluwa
    This poem.talks about the struggles, hardships,challenges of man here on earth and how he so much longs for paradise which he believes there is peace
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Bukunmi
    The poem talks about the strife and anguish of man and his longing for peace
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Oyilola
    This poem talks about the struggles, sufferings, hopefulness people pass through but still having a mind of a better future and days in mind.
    This poem is related to a poem"naked soul" which is also telling how we follow the wrong path thinking it the right way .
    It talks about people wear mask to cover their shattered and bruised soul and wounded heart to make others believe they are okay 
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • DoreGabriel17
    This poem talks about life on how we pass through pain, fear and grief, while seeking for joy.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • olajumokehannah
    This poem talks about the life of a restless soul,which seeks for joy, peace,love,and rest.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Fikayomi2023
    This poem talks about a person who's heart is bittered and is expecting joy
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Rofiat2002
    The family was stricken with grief after the untimely death of their lives one
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • samuelo.93834
    Stricken soul, this is a poem that talks about the state of uncertainty, suffering, restlessness and hopelessness.of which the very soul is still having an inner that is waiting for better days ahead.the very day that their would be inner peace,joy, love and affection 
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • oyegoke_t
    The poem is all about the grief of an anguished soul wishing for; peace,joyand love
    LikeReply 12 years ago
  • Kehinde
    The poem talks about the state of uncertainty which is full of fear and grief and looking forward for a better condition for habitat
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • lawal_t
    It talks about the grief of an anguished soul and how the anguished soul crave for love and affection
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • WINTERTAE
    This peom talks about a person who is unhappy, brokenhearted and in grief.This person seeks rest and wants to be free from pain
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Thaddychukzy
    The poem is talking about the undying call of nature. "Death" How painful to fall a victim. Heartbroken is a lead theme is the above poem Stricken Soul.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • okunadea.87919
    This is a dark poem and its talk about depression , sadness, grief and pains. Its a well written poem that help us to know how people who are sad are feeling even though most of them cant express it.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • rokibat
    It talks about the grief of an anguished soul and how it seek for love and affection
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • basil_n
    This poem talks about the state fear and grief and looking forward to a better situation and conditions for habitation
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Faham
    The poem is about lamentations and cravings for salvation.
    There's the use of personification in the "calm of hills" and also there is the use of apostrophe in"O paradise O paradise
    Crave for your rest".
    Its about grief,sadness,troubled times and hope for a better future
     
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Kayode1
    This poem talks about how one has passed through sufferings,grief,restlessness,hopelessness,but still having an inner joy that is waiting for a better days ahead..a time that the endless sorrows and tears will seize.. 
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Nuele
    This poem is centered around grief of an anguished soul who yearns for joy and peace.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • nancy_u
    The person in the peom has experience a shattered and bruised soul filled with pain, affliction and fear. And she wishes for a better tomorrow.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • onyemenam_e
    This poem states the state at which someone cries for mercy from the anguish he or she is facing
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • nancy_u
    The person in the peom has experience a shattered and bruised soul filled with pain, affliction and dear. And she wishes for a better tomorrow.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • jolayemi_v
    This poem talk about grief of an anguished soul who seek for love joy and peace for the rest of his life
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • odunuga_n
    This poem talks about the pains of the character in this poem and his hope for better days ahead.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • jolayemi_v
    This poem talks about the grief of an anguished person who seek for peace and joy for the rest of his life
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Mayowa
    The poem talks about a weary persona whose soul has been shattered with grief affliction and fear with scars and bruises from pain and the need for rest from all the suffering which must come from a joyous land which the poet persona refers to as paradise 
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Precious123
    The poem basically talks more about grief.The person in the poem is pained and hoping for a better day some day
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Temi123
    This poem talks about a broken hearted person who seeks for inner peace, love, and affection
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • ayantoye_e
    The poem is about grief and anguished soul wishes
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Motunrayo9803
    This poem talks about grief, a broken-hearted person and how the person yearns for inner peace
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Ayoola
    The poem "stricken soul" in a nutshell is about a condition full of sadness,pains,fear,tears,heart breaks and the need for peace of mind.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Inioluwaoladeji
    This poem talks about life and death.... Death is inevitable and a man rests when he dies.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • odumuyiwa_p
    This poem is about what is happening in dis life,all the pains and sufferings for everyone but no matter what may occur there is this place called paradise which is craving for rest and is to be remembered
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Oluwayanmife
    The poem talks about the need for the soul to rest in paradise after the shattering and the bruising.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • ayomi_o
    This poem talks about the yearning for a happy life and inner peace that someone who lacks it is looking for.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Inioluwaoladeji
    This poem talks about a soul that is broken and is in pain which seeks rest and peace
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Aladejebiayomide
    This poem talks about pain of an anguish soul and how they crave for peace and joy
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Dolapo
    The poem talks about a soul that is full of fears and sorrow that is seeking for peace,rest,love and joy
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Adegokeayomide
    The poem talk about the need for joy and seek for inner peace
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Oluwaseun2127
    The prom is basically about a shattered and bruised soul and how they yearn for the opposite of what they are experiencing.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Bukolaamary
    This poem is about a broken,shattered and anguished soul craving for love, peace and affection.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Flourish
    The persona in this poem craves for love and affection
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Ruthina
    This poem is about someone who is in great pain and is wishing to be happy
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Adecora
    The poem is mainly about the grief, pain and sorrow that humans feel
    And their strong and unending hope for a better tomorrow
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Adeife
    What this poem is trying to explain is the pain of a broken hearted person and how the person craves for love and support.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Temitope
    The peom talk about the broken heart of a person
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Adedolapooadeyyy
    The poem talks about how the person being talked about is broken and he calling out to God for peace and serenity.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • fidel_f
    Poem talks about the need for joy and seek for inner peace
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • UzoechChiamaka
    This poem is about grief. The person in this poem is in pain and grieving hoping for a better day “ till the day breaks and shadow flees”
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • jesutofunmi
    This is poem talks about the life of a broken hearted person and how the person yearns for joy ,peace and rest.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Fareehah
    This peom talks about the grief of an anguished soul and how the anguished soul craves for love and affection.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Wuraolaolaibi2050
    This is a poem that talks about the life an anguished soul wishes for;peace,joy and rest.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • thomasa.89976
    This is a poem about the state of uncertainty which is full of fears and grief and looking forward to a better situation and conditions for habitation
    LikeReply2 years ago

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