Best Sad Poems
Below are the all-time best Sad poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sad poems written by PoetrySoup members
THE ROSE~THE ROSE~
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls ...
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Categories:
sad, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Starry Starry NightWhen Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
sad, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Forgotten Heroes of the SommeOver the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...
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Categories:
sad, brother, death, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
nature, sad, sun, time,
Form:
Terzanelle
The Ballad of the Poet*The Dead Poet*
Many blocks along the road,
Kicking down walls of heavy stones,
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...
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Categories:
sad, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form:
Ballad
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
sad, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wandered Lonely As A Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a boat
a shallow dingy left behind,
alone in marsh...
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Categories:
sad, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form:
Lyric
PINK LACE**Every pace change --is the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon**
"PINK LADIES"
The phone rings,
The clock dings,
I scream, scream, and...
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Categories:
sad, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Clouds"HOLDING HIS HAND"
*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?
"Gods voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...
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Categories:
sad, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisONE WORD~
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my veins,
...
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Categories:
sad, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form:
Epic
My Affair With A Frost Flower State Of Affairs
There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured...
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Categories:
sad, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
The Park BenchThe Park Bench
I wish I was a poet
With magical words
To make people see all of the absurd
Tears fly, paintings in pastel die
When we look into...
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Categories:
sad, art, beauty, inspirational, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
My Darling Boy
Oh, have you seen my darling boy,
blond hair, like corn...
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Categories:
sad, analogy, boy, childhood, innocence,
Form:
Quatrain
Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zested
lilac flirts and coral whispers have escaped me ~
grievous gray now flows through my veins.
I shiver melancholia,
entombed...
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Categories:
depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Broken
I wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -
once again
she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...
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Categories:
sad, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
I Can't BreatheIn memory of----
Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...
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Categories:
sad, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
There is still beautyFriends, do not forget: there is still beauty
When the darkness comes and shadows fall,
Music, Art, and nature, gentle comforts
When despair is deep and hope is...
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Categories:
dark, friendship, hope, sad,
Form:
Quatrain
My Last Poem -of 2012-The last poem…
Standing against the wall.
The longest teardrop made its fall.
Making one final call.
Never will I write about my letters again.
This prison is...
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Categories:
depression, sad,
Form:
Dramatic 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:
sad, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form:
Alliteration
You Caught The WindI remember you, from when there was a spring
When the seasons were ripe, with verdant green
Our nimble feet danced in the wind
and on the brink...
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Categories:
sad, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Suicide MasterpieceSuicide Masterpiece
Sweatdrop
On top
Trigger pop
Written note
All I got
Hang knot
Body rot
Suicide cop
I hope not
Cry out loud
I think not
Body's hot
I am too proud
I am loved a lot
Rooftop.
Suicide bride
Heavy...
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Categories:
sad, abuse, art, body, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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:
sad, i love you, i
Form:
Free verse
The RideThe old man looked a little out of place
Astride his pony on the carousel
A smile from yesterday across his face
As if he were entranced in...
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Categories:
imagination, memory, sad,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Some hearts can never be tamedOnce when my soul spoke,
you betrayed every word.
Then your tongue promised
to only sing with sincerity.
I danced for a brief while,
lost in your angelic orchestra.
Until...
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Categories:
sad, angst, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse