Best Melancholic Poems
Below are the all-time best Melancholic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of melancholic poems written by PoetrySoup members
Melancholic TreeIn the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.
Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below,
an isolated tree - naked and...
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Categories:
melancholic, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form:
Free verse
MoonlightPainting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"
your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon
as we have every month...
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Categories:
melancholic, death, love, love hurts,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
melancholic, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Shepherd Who Forgot His FlockIt's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see
sometimes they bleed.
Some say words heal,
but I resist to...
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Categories:
melancholic, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Garden of MumMum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.
Her eyes were tired,...
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Categories:
melancholic, mother, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi
I had heard the legend of...
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Categories:
melancholic, appreciation, love,
Form:
Epic
Silent GoodbyeI forgot myself today
as melancholic melodies
overwhelm each beat
of my wandering heart.
The sanctimonious sun deceives
as a bitter breeze breathes
against sullen silent surfaces.
Recycled emotions penetrate
with a...
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Categories:
melancholic, absence, i miss you,
Form:
Prose
Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?
Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware...
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Categories:
melancholic, romantic,
Form:
Ghazal
When the Piano Bleeds PainIt's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.
In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...
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Categories:
melancholic, angst, lost love, love
Form:
Alliteration
Soothing SerenadesPained piano keys compose
a chorus-less composition.
Melancholic moods crave
to sway back and forth
like bluebells and lilies dancing,
when kissed by the morning breeze
Forlorn flute...
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Categories:
melancholic, analogy, deep, sad,
Form:
Alliteration
If This Was the Lasti remember all of our first times
all of our poems
i've always been safer in air
yet you kept me afloat in rushing tides
but
without your beautiful silhouette...
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Categories:
melancholic, angst, love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Silent Rhapsody
I remember
when I was a poor boy
and nobody loved me
mamma's tears felt like acid
burning holes in my heart -
I became breathless
triggers came without a guarantee
violence...
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Categories:
melancholic, childhood, emotions, integrity,
Form:
Lyric
Orchid Oxymorons"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...
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Categories:
melancholic, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Drowning In the DarknessDrowning 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:
melancholic, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Not all dreams come true
Mind softened,
watching fusions
of saffron strips
merge with scarlet hues,
elegantly charming
...
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Categories:
melancholic, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse