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STRICKEN SOUL

Dr. Idowu James ADEKUNLE 1976 (Lagos)

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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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Written on December 10, 2021

Submitted by ID on December 10, 2021

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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
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Dr. Idowu James ADEKUNLE

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  • Idris
    Idris
    The poem talks about the suffering and how we pass through pain on earth
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Maleykhay
    Maleykhay
    The poem talks about a broken hearted person, suffering and hopefulness of people
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Mosunmola19
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Ayomikun
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Beatricesabas
    Beatricesabas
    This poem is all about the grief of an anguished soul, yearning for freedom, love, peace and affection.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Kabiru
    Kabiru
    This poem is trying to explain the grief of a broken-hearted person and how the person craves love and support.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Neeka
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Ezinneamaka
    Ezinneamaka
    It talks about pain and suffering
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Oyinkings
    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".
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Jubril123
    Jubril123
    The poem talks about the suffering, hardship challenge and struggle and how man also yearn for paradise.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Titilope
    Titilope
    This poem talk about struggling, suffering, and hopefullness of people on earth.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • ayantoyinbo_t
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Omolola37
    Omolola37
    The poem talks about the suffering, hardship challenge and struggle
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Temiloluwa
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Oluyori
    Oluyori
    This poem talks about how we pads through struggles, pain, fear and grief while yearning for peace of mind and happiness.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • ajadi_a
    ajadi_a
    what happens at the end of a mans journey... what is his faith when he meets with his maker
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • moyosore_o
    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. 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Shalommmm
    Shalommmm
    This poem talks the struggle man passes through on earth and how man longs for a better life
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • tundun_t
    tundun_t
    This poem talks about the struggles through hardship of man and how man also yearn for paradise.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Oyin
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Yetunde
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Alaga
    Alaga
    The poem is emphasizing the inevitability of death.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Ojooluwa
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Bukunmi
    Bukunmi
    The poem talks about the strife and anguish of man and his longing for peace
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Oyilola
    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 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • DoreGabriel17
    DoreGabriel17
    This poem talks about life on how we pass through pain, fear and grief, while seeking for joy.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • olajumokehannah
    olajumokehannah
    This poem talks about the life of a restless soul,which seeks for joy, peace,love,and rest.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Fikayomi2023
    Fikayomi2023
    This poem talks about a person who's heart is bittered and is expecting joy
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Rofiat2002
    Rofiat2002
    The family was stricken with grief after the untimely death of their lives one
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • samuelo.93834
    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 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • oyegoke_t
    oyegoke_t
    The poem is all about the grief of an anguished soul wishing for; peace,joyand love
    LikeReply 11 year ago
  • Kehinde
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • lawal_t
    lawal_t
    It talks about the grief of an anguished soul and how the anguished soul crave for love and affection
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • WINTERTAE
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Thaddychukzy
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • okunadea.87919
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • rokibat
    rokibat
    It talks about the grief of an anguished soul and how it seek for love and affection
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • basil_n
    basil_n
    This poem talks about the state fear and grief and looking forward to a better situation and conditions for habitation
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Faham
    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     
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Kayode1
    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.. 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Nuele
    Nuele
    This poem is centered around grief of an anguished soul who yearns for joy and peace.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • nancy_u
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • onyemenam_e
    onyemenam_e
    This poem states the state at which someone cries for mercy from the anguish he or she is facing
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • nancy_u
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • jolayemi_v
    jolayemi_v
    This poem talk about grief of an anguished soul who seek for love joy and peace for the rest of his life
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • odunuga_n
    odunuga_n
    This poem talks about the pains of the character in this poem and his hope for better days ahead.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • jolayemi_v
    jolayemi_v
    This poem talks about the grief of an anguished person who seek for peace and joy for the rest of his life
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Mayowa
    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 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Precious123
    Precious123
    The poem basically talks more about grief.The person in the poem is pained and hoping for a better day some day
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Temi123
    Temi123
    This poem talks about a broken hearted person who seeks for inner peace, love, and affection
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • ayantoye_e
    ayantoye_e
    The poem is about grief and anguished soul wishes
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Motunrayo9803
    Motunrayo9803
    This poem talks about grief, a broken-hearted person and how the person yearns for inner peace
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Ayoola
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Inioluwaoladeji
    Inioluwaoladeji
    This poem talks about life and death.... Death is inevitable and a man rests when he dies.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • odumuyiwa_p
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Oluwayanmife
    Oluwayanmife
    The poem talks about the need for the soul to rest in paradise after the shattering and the bruising.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • ayomi_o
    ayomi_o
    This poem talks about the yearning for a happy life and inner peace that someone who lacks it is looking for.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Inioluwaoladeji
    Inioluwaoladeji
    This poem talks about a soul that is broken and is in pain which seeks rest and peace
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Aladejebiayomide
    Aladejebiayomide
    This poem talks about pain of an anguish soul and how they crave for peace and joy
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Dolapo
    Dolapo
    The poem talks about a soul that is full of fears and sorrow that is seeking for peace,rest,love and joy
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Adegokeayomide
    Adegokeayomide
    The poem talk about the need for joy and seek for inner peace
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Oluwaseun2127
    Oluwaseun2127
    The prom is basically about a shattered and bruised soul and how they yearn for the opposite of what they are experiencing.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Bukolaamary
    Bukolaamary
    This poem is about a broken,shattered and anguished soul craving for love, peace and affection.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Flourish
    Flourish
    The persona in this poem craves for love and affection
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Ruthina
    Ruthina
    This poem is about someone who is in great pain and is wishing to be happy
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Adecora
    Adecora
    The poem is mainly about the grief, pain and sorrow that humans feel
    And their strong and unending hope for a better tomorrow
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Adeife
    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.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Temitope
    Temitope
    The peom talk about the broken heart of a person
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Adedolapooadeyyy
    Adedolapooadeyyy
    The poem talks about how the person being talked about is broken and he calling out to God for peace and serenity.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • fidel_f
    fidel_f
    Poem talks about the need for joy and seek for inner peace
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • UzoechChiamaka
    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”
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • jesutofunmi
    jesutofunmi
    This is poem talks about the life of a broken hearted person and how the person yearns for joy ,peace and rest.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Fareehah
    Fareehah
    This peom talks about the grief of an anguished soul and how the anguished soul craves for love and affection.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Wuraolaolaibi2050
    Wuraolaolaibi2050
    This is a poem that talks about the life an anguished soul wishes for;peace,joy and rest.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • thomasa.89976
    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
    LikeReply1 year ago

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