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Best Depress Poems

Below are the all-time best Depress poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of depress poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member In Another Time
the waning moonlight thinly enveloped 	
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and...

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Categories: depress, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My New Year's Resolutions: Humor
I have tracked my New Year's Resolutions 
over the years these are my fantastic results.

Resolution One

2011: I will try to be more attentive to Lauren.
2012:...

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Categories: depress, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: List
Premium Member The Reclusive Verses
Wanting to shrug off this shell, break loose from me
Silence that damn hermit, hiccuping under his tree
Trapped inside too long, dormancy dreams to wake 
Disgorging...

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Categories: depress, allusion, confusion, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Call
I am not who you call me if that's what you mean
I do not flatter egos
With glitz and glamor of words while the obscene
Condition of...

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Categories: depress, art, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Memories of Good Old Days
Memories of good old days


When memories give you tears, 
you sit, there is nowhere to go,
and you have the worst of fears,
Can you ever retain...

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Categories: depress, emotions, love, memory,
Form: Sonnet



Black
Dream of love
All the colors
Absence of color
Black and white
Their beauty is absolute
Perfect harmony

What would the stars do
If the nights were not black
Streetlights would be lacking
Diamonds...

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Categories: depress, beauty, dark, love,
Form: Free verse
Evacuation and Loss
The night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant...

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Categories: bereavement, child, depression, family,
Form: Narrative
Lies
LIES

A web that has no ending
For I can not stop 
Even though I try
Something is wrong with me
Because my judgement is blinded
And I can not...

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Categories: depress, angst, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Down Winding Road
As I ventured down the winding road
 I saw a house with a lawn full of weeds
 The door was rotting on this ghostly abode
...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depress, house,
Form: Rhyme
Not Moonlight Nor Starry Presence
Not moonlight nor lovely starry presence
Of midnight can depress your young beauty
Of splendour reflecting a radiance
In your wealth of grandeur a swelling sea

The passion you...

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Categories: depress, age, beauty, love,
Form: Sonnet
A Bit of Me
I live my life the best way I can, I mean....
Life is too short to live as a drama queen 
Never been an Angel, no...

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Categories: depress, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dilly-Dilly Daffodils
Then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.

—-William Wordsworth

DILLY-DILLY DAFFODILS

Dilly-dilly daffodils in a lady’s tress,
Sailing as she throws off distress.
Blithesome in shades...

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Categories: depress, flower,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Needed Window
Windows are always there for us
nearly every room does have one
should make us appreciate our lot
look out and see all that's done

Consider every room you...

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Categories: depress, life, light, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weeping willow
Written: February 3rd, 2024
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Existence for him,
should be the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depress, analogy, appreciation, cry, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wakening
The world spins kaleidoscopic, a whorl of color in revolt.
Oceans quake malleable, molding into fissures of tectonic hunger,
ravaging the deep, stirring the primal need depressing
populations’...

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Categories: depress, allegory, childhood, computer-internet, history,
Form: Sestina

Book: Shattered Sighs