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Best Melancholy Poems

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


Premium Member September
"September, beautiful month of my birth, is nigh, but I cannot feel glad."

September, drifting in with glow of moon,
you stifle Summer’s ardor. . . and...

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Categories: melancholy, nature, sad, sun, time,
Form: Terzanelle



Premium Member Winter Sonata
In the landscape 
of melancholy, 
where arctic 
heartbeats linger, 
I long for withered 
willows to blossom 
like speckled 
diamond petals, 
while your crystalline 
silhouette strolls...

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Categories: melancholy, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dry Mascara
DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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Categories: melancholy, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: melancholy, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: melancholy, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member A Tear-Ful Conversation With My Daughter
It starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...

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Categories: melancholy, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: melancholy, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholy, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The World As Seen Through a Poet's Pen
A bright array of rainbow hues
      adorns the parchment now and then,
   and gives a glimpse of writer’s...

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Categories: melancholy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholy, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Transcendence
When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures...

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Categories: melancholy, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
“I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay”
Sara Evans

My heart no longer
beats the same,
as I’ve wiped away 
tainted...

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Categories: melancholy, angst, break up, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: melancholy, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Woes and Throes of Sorrow
I rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.

Neglected now, heartstrings'...

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Categories: melancholy, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Submerged In Shallow Streams
Shimmering silhouettes haunt.

Shadow stands still, 
observing his soul drift towards 
the tree of melancholy.

Its morbid image stands silent,
but screams inside the mind.

I could write a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: melancholy, angst, death, father son,
Form: Free verse

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