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Best Saddest Poems

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


Premium Member No Such Thing As Forever
We all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saddest, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: saddest, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Remember Me
Remember me...

A  fresh sweet scent

of  last gardenia

on yesterday's linen sheets

Remember me...

A cherry bud

in your backyard orchard

revealing  first pink shades

in once upon a...

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Categories: saddest, baseball, basketball, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rose and Her Thorns
A lovely rose grew to the garden's delight,
a poem of sunrise surrounded by night.
One day her friend Ivy asked "Why do you mourn?" 
Rose answered,...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saddest, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Joy Killing Poet
**Back smile/smile Back **

With your heads way up your :]ssa[: 
You will never accomplish the win
I got shots that will protect me from your rabid...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saddest, adventure, deep, hate, irony,
Form: Epic



Premium Member When I No Longer Love You
When dawn's blush of light eclipses the moon
And afternoons find meadows sprinkled with dew
When I view willows smiling instead of weeping
And the keeping of promises...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saddest, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night

A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of...

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Categories: saddest, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts...

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Categories: saddest, fate, lost love, memory,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member In Such Intense Flames, An Eternity May Be Born
In Such Intense Flames, An Eternity May Be Born

Hold your dreams, bind them with rainbow beams
tumble sweetly and let heart's passion arise
sow the seeds that...

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Categories: saddest, appreciation, art, care, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Because of Just One Poetess
BECAUSE OF JUST ONE POETESS

I let go of living in sadness.
My life seemed going nowhere,
and looking back now, it all
seemed like madness!

It wasn't because she did
gymnastics...

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Categories: saddest, beautiful, celebration, encouraging, poetess,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: saddest, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
She Moves In Silence
 

She moves in silence like a jasmine breeze

through a moonlit garden walk

She doesn't journey like a star

with a lustrous shine in a celestial sky

But...

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Categories: saddest, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sadness Is the Sweetest Emotion
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." - Percy Shelley


Do not tell me to smile
while tears run down my cheek,
just because I...

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Categories: saddest, emotions, poetry, sad, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member a bird and a boy -
one day as a boy, I went down to the sea
clambered o'er rocks way out to the bluff
stopping to search in a tide pool for...

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Categories: saddest, beach, bird, childhood, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oft From a Distant Echo, It Is Heard Fifth Poet In My Dedication Series
(1.)  Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series

Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard

At the start comes just a solitary word
oft...

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Categories: saddest, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs