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Best Melancholic Poems

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Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Moonlight
Painting 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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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, death, love, love hurts,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Shepherd Who Forgot His Flock
It'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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Garden of Mum
Mum 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Silent Goodbye
I 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, absence, i miss you,
Form: Prose
Premium Member 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
Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It'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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Soothing Serenades
Pained 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, analogy, deep, sad,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member If This Was the Last
i 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, angst, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, childhood, emotions, integrity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 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
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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not all dreams come true
Mind softened, 
watching fusions 
of saffron strips
merge with scarlet hues,
elegantly charming 
             ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholic, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs