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Best Sad Dark Poems

Below are the all-time best Sad Dark poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sad dark poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Rose
Once bloomed a rose so young and fair
With dark brown eyes and long black hair

Beside her be a tall dark tree
Whose branches stretch to smother...

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Categories: sad dark, angst, daughter, death, depression,
Form: Narrative



My Island Home
The sand pelts my skin, as it blows with the wind. The waves lap at my toes, once again and again. 
   All this beauty surrounds...

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Categories: sad dark, adventure, happiness, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Pockets of Misery
I stuff my pockets with misery and contempt,
overloading their contents, pleasure exempt.
I fill the dark spaces with sadness and dread,
overexerting the capacity, till all hope...

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Categories: sad dark, childhood, confusion, daughter, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Give Up On Me When I'M Out
I set my eyes to this future of thine,
And I’ve always seen that one day it would be mine,
But all that it is running into...

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Categories: sad dark, recovery from..., sad, dark,
Form: Lyric
Confrontation With Evil - Part Ii - Fear
Part II - Iambic Tetrameter aabb rhyme

Part II

Concealed in dreams, revealed at dawn,
The dark brings demon things thought strong.
No morbid mood can now contain
Feigned pride...

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Categories: sad dark, sad, dark, dark, fear,
Form: Quatrain



Kali
Kali, Kali, Kali
She is the sated navy night
Swathed with soldering white stars 
Warm summer air, coastal dream

An unwavering fortune of 
deep, red Eden grapes
Hanging like...

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Categories: sad dark, allegory, confusion, lost, love,
Form: Free verse
I Like the Dark
the dark is were i belong
i feel i guess wanted 
i love the dark it relaxes me 
im so use to the cold darkness 
its...

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Categories: sad dark, sad, dark, dark,
Form: ABC
Siting In the Dark
im siting in this dark corner on my bed just crying 
i feel so sad and alone 
i rather stay in my dark room instead...

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Categories: sad dark, sad, dark, dark, sad,
Form: ABC
Throw Me In the Dark Blue Sea
loving with my heart only to be told i am not the one
loving with my soul 
loving with my all

why even love at all
seeing you...

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Categories: sad dark, sad, dark, blue, dark,
Form: ABC
Between the Trees In the Dark Forest...
Between the trees in the dark forest,
Called a voice filled with fear,
Between the trees in the dark forest,
Everything was dark, and nothing was clear,
Between the...

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Categories: sad dark, life, mystery, nature, sad,
Form: Rhyme
A Cold Dark Night
Abandoned soul lost in a tempestuous storm
Cascading raindrops stream down the window pane
Oblivious is she to her own mournful wailing
Leeches line up to lay claim...

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Categories: sad dark, loss, lost love, sad,
Form: Acrostic
Dark Side
and i'm floating away
floating over to the dark side
cant hold it in
i cant do it anymore
my strength has been sapped
my will to live killed
for when...

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Categories: sad dark, death, loss, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Who Am I
My life is a smokescreen
You can’t see me
I hide behind dark glasses
Of bright smiles and glee

You can’t find me
When you’re looking around
Because deep down inside...

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Categories: sad dark, confusion, mystery, sad, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Dark Cloud
As the pain rolls over my heart
Like a dark cloud of despair
Pouring drops of hate unto my soul

As the hate rises to drown me in
This...

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Categories: sad dark, angst, sad, dark, dark,
Form: I do not know?
My Dark Life
I know it’s wrong to ask but why me?
What have I done? I can't really see,
But you make it so easy for me to think...

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Categories: sad dark, life, sad, dark, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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