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Best Depressed Poems

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


Premium Member Humanity
If we don’t feel with our hearts, we don’t belong
If we don’t see as one, the world is wrong
Beyond the wars and the hate and...

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Categories: depressed, life, peoplechild, lost, child,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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Categories: depressed, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive...

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Categories: depressed, analogy, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mimes At My Funeral
When my time is done and I am finally laid to rest
I don’t want to be recalled as one who lived life depressed

So as I...

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Categories: depressed, funeral, funny, humor, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Date With Milton
Death comes to all like a great shadow,
servant of reality when the truth of it sinks
in leaving the experience embedded on
one’s soul. Milt, given to...

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Categories: depressed, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Christmas With Family
"Sometimes miracles happen when you're least expecting them. 
Quote by poet." 




It was the week before Christmas; it was a cold, bright snowy day
Told the...

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Categories: depressed, christmas, december, family, pets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jagged
Jagged edges of this morning,
   clad in black skies dark adorning,
   issues now it’s subtle warning
   leaving living souls...

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Categories: depressed, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lesson a Dog Taught Me
On a stone wall, by the solitary pavement,
Annoyed and angry, with daggers drawn at everyone,
I saw my neighbor sitting dejected and depressed.
Though known him for...

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Categories: depressed, anger, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Rap God
Steps up to the mic and loses his cool
acts like a fool, way too cool for school
flunked out twice 
wasn't raised to be nice 
but...

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Categories: depressed, addiction, boy, confidence, rap,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Red Angel
RED  ANGEL

I see the fire in your eyes!
This Red Angel, who's not human, intriguing with lies.
Pointing to the path that leads to paradise.
Ending Revelations...

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Categories: depressed, angel, beauty, care, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a...

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Categories: depressed, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ll Cry Tomorrow
Sitting dying alone,
In this dark and dingy place 
It has now become my home..
The only open bar 
In town, I needed something to heal my...

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Categories: depressed, addiction, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Statuary Gray
Winter whitewashes Autumn's array,
but you're confident Spring will soon show.
Yet, as Winter buries Fall's decay,
depression deepens like falling snow.

Snow-laden trees, like sculptures of clay,
stand as...

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Categories: depressed, depression, february, how i
Form: Quatrain
Psycho Evaluation
Psycho Evaluation



    Physically unable to deal with all this stress
        a clinical Psychiatrist said that...

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Categories: depressed, corruption, irony, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Surrender
I SURRENDER

My God You read my thoughts...
You know what's in my heart...
You know my desires, my needs and  my wants;
You know what brings me...

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Categories: depressed, christian, faith, feelings, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs