pinched in the nightnothing hurts like
silence from a lover's heart
while the stars are singing with delight
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Categories:
sad, feelings, heart, longing, night,
Form: Free verse
New Beginnings(April 7, 2025)
To new beginnings,
A moment in time where we have an opening to try and start anew
Every soul has dealt with yearning for a chance to redeem themselves
What better way than to start in the Spring,
How angelic it is when we see the leaves bloom and everything starts to look rich again.
I for...
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Categories:
sad, anxiety, blessing, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
FireworksBOOM.
a puff of purple powder stains the pewter sky.
i sit, listening
to the whirring and fizzling
of the firey starlit, glistening
when the midnight clock strikes nigh.
a red light joins in the heavens high,
shimmering
and with a crisp, cool whistling
a tune as musical, magical as fiddling
that steals away breaths by and by.
when all is said and done,
and the burns...
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Categories:
america, firework, sad, stars,
Form: Rhyme
The DreamIn my struggle for life I long
I long to be free
In my struggle for life I feel
I feel like a prisoner
Never to escape this place
With its blackened walls
And destroyed floors
Torture and struggle
I hate this place
With its crumbling rooftop
And its battered doors
I cry
I cry nonstop
I beg for forgiveness
Though I didn't do anything wrong
I still beg
In my...
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Categories:
anxiety, betrayal, heartbreak, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Getting Over You
It’s been a year now since we were like family,
We talk sometimes now, but are so far from how close we use to be,
When I drive by your estate, the one I spent so many nights in,
I think of when we were just two inseparable kids,
It shouldn’t hurt this much to see you moving on,
But...
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Categories:
friend, sad,
Form: Lyric
Black Hole Lovegrab your pail, we'll clean the sea
fetch a comb to coiff the sand
don't fall for burning cities, to be
eternalized
as a pinnacle of table salt
pinch me, porfa!
looking up/down—that's insurance
perilous looking back
psychics looking forward
pronouncing words
over tomorrow's world
should you be dissolved
by hands
furious at future-telling feats
well, you would have seen it coming...
stay simple
pick peppers
plant cotton
gin it
for reason
...
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Categories:
sad, abuse, grave, imagination, love
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscopic Life
Categories:
sad, joy, life, pain, rainbow,
Form: Verse
Heartbroken, still I loveI used to think heartbreak missed girls like me,
the ones who waited, who stayed soft and sure.
For years I prayed, “Lord, guard this fragile heart,”
believing stillness meant I’d skip the fall.
Then he arrived. The first to hold my hand,
the first to kiss me like it meant something.
He made me feel alive in quiet ways,
like maybe...
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Categories:
sad, heartbreak, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Yearning Into ReverieOn dark, cold soil,
atop the soaring green turf,
lay cold, rusty, nostalgic houses.
The path that led to them
was faded and shallow,
with the feeling
it could cave in
at any moment.
Scattered along that path
were derelict vehicles
from different eras
each one different heaps of life.
Fog filled the houses.
It filled the cars too,
like a raging campfire,
too sinister
to be put out.
And yet here...
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Categories:
sad, childhood, depression, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
An Elegy on Death-2AN ELEGY ON DEATH -2
Simply someone look at eyes
In twilight of sky,happy in smile,
But that smile hurt after miles
Don't know else,that I file.
Left the whole world in dark,
Look in that smilies live in silence
Remember,when last these spark
Remember,when last I do violence.
The few I wrote on us
The few isn't, I think sufficent
Death don't get while it...
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Categories:
sad, change, cry, death, dedication,
Form: Elegy
On Golden ShoresOn golden shores waves were crashing
Beams of sunlight, I saw flashing
and stopped rowing. I stilled my oars.
Waves were crashing on golden shores
Gulls shrieked while the wind was blowing
I stilled my oars and stopped rowing.
Morning skies turned blue as dawn peeked
While the wind was blowing, gulls shrieked.
When daylight broke, I thought of you.
As dawn peeked, morning...
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Categories:
relationship, remember, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Nothing Seems To Last Another Collaboration With Eileen and meThis Is a Tanka written by Eileen Manassain and reimagined by me by
adding every other verse in order to create Lyrics we could put to music.
please visit Eileen recent page and enjoy This poem in it's original Form.
I want to Thank Eileen for the privilege of working with her on these poems
Nothing seems to...
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Categories:
sad, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Heartbroken yet not broken“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” –H.C. Paye
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Pure wickedness sets you apart,
Meanwhile, true love you led me to assume.
You purposefully broke my heart,
Leaving my vases filled with wilted blooms.
Yet I deter not; my heart lives to love,
Through many heartbreaks, still I'm...
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Categories:
sad, anger, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Patio Letdown
there’s something dreary
about a terrasse drenched in rain
can’t help but take it personally
like a missed invitation
to an afternoon drink with friends
or a cancelled party
a dull hush lacks warmth
too early or too late
no one at the rendez-vous
no welcoming sunshine
stood up by the host
a final rinse
the rain lets up
the earth on pause
before the sun breaks through
and sets...
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Categories:
nature, rain, sad,
Form: Free verse
My Friend Is the Ocean
My friend is the ocean, waters that glide,
Rustling my footsteps and tousling my hair;
Many the times that we walked side by side,
A spark and forever, joined as a pair.
Always a cloud there lay over its play,
Dappled the sunlight that fell on my face;
Heaving, its waters had something to say;
Twilight with meteors it took for the...
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Categories:
sad, abuse, allegory, friendship, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Sad Poems
Read wonderful sad poetry on the following sub-topics:
boyfriend, breakup, cry, death, depression, feeling, friends, girlfriend, goodbye, heartbreak, kids, life, rhyme,
and more.
Definition | What is Sad in Poetry?
Poems Related to Sad
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