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Sad Poems | All Types of Poems About Sadness

Premium Member pinched in the night
nothing hurts like silence from a lover's heart while the stars are singing with delight AP: 1st place 2025...

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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



Fireworks
BOOM. 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 Dream
In 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



Premium Member Black Hole Love
grab 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
Premium Member Kaleidoscopic Life
Kaleidoscopic Life ...

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Categories: sad, joy, life, pain, rainbow,
Form: Verse
Heartbroken, still I love
I 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 Reverie
On 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-2
AN 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
Premium Member On Golden Shores
On 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
Premium Member Nothing Seems To Last Another Collaboration With Eileen and me
This 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 ........................................................... 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

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