Best Sorrow Poems
Below are the all-time best Sorrow poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sorrow poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
sorrow, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
BrokenOn a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare
In a nightmare with no windows
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody
Flowers, above
My eyes...
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Categories:
sorrow, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Touch Me"In Touch With Myself"
I can't seem to find her
The reminder of yesterday
I shut my eyes for a few seconds
Only there, can I reach to bear...
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Categories:
sorrow, absence, confusion, imagination, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
sorrow, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form:
Ballad
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
sorrow, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
sorrow, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
MonsterMONSTER
Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed,
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...
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Categories:
sorrow, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
sorrow, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form:
Alliteration
The Sham of My HumanityEvergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...
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Categories:
sorrow, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
sorrow, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find HopeIn A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
(The Solemn Prayer)
Raining splashing, fierce winds...
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Categories:
sorrow, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Tears Of A PierrotPorcelain chalk white mask
moves with silence of mime
that hides a lovelorn face
moonstruck by orbs of light
with shadows to embrace.
Porcelain chalk white mask
...
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Categories:
love, sorrow,
Form:
Monchielle Stanza
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad