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
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
Winter SonataIn 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
Dry MascaraDRY 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
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 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
The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTDPOTD 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
A Tear-Ful Conversation With My DaughterIt 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
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin LaneIn 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
PortraitPaint 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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Categories:
melancholy, art, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
The World As Seen Through a Poet's PenA 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
Categories:
melancholy, emotions, how i feel,
Form:
Carpe Diem
TranscendenceWhen 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
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
Titanium QuillI 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
In Woes and Throes of SorrowI 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
Submerged In Shallow StreamsShimmering 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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Categories:
melancholy, angst, death, father son,
Form:
Free verse