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
In Woes And Throes Of Sorrow
I 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:
sorrow, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form:
Sonnet
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
Love in the Silence of the Soul
As 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
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
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
MONSTER MONSTER
Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed,
It was me, tired of...
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Categories:
sorrow, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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
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
Venus Gifts A Yarrow's Kiss
O, weeping willow shed your sorrow
on whispering breeze to soothe your grief
within whose breath's a healing yarrow
to whisk away tears upon your leaf.
Sweet rustling zephyr...
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Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, hope, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
PLEASE~PLEASE~
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song!
Don't worry mommy,...
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Categories:
sorrow, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Sham Of My Humanity
Evergreen 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
Ozzie Our Spaniel
The 28th of April; I'll always remember that day
It was very overcast and the sky was quite grey
That short journey to the vet I will...
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Categories:
sorrow, best friend, emotions, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
A tribute to Leonora G~ Yolanda was--her name ~ Featuring:) Leonora Galinta
From a hell storm,
A mighty she-devil took on its form
Like a woman scorn ascending from...
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Categories:
death, deep, evil, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
We'll Always have San Andreas-rearranging the stars-
How could we agree to separation?
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've...
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Categories:
sorrow, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form:
Alliteration
Hope, A Little RemainedHope, A Little Remained
She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...
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Categories:
sorrow, anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Can You Spare A TeardropI cried for so long, so many nights,
and now no more tears can drop,
I'm all out, do you have some to spare,
cause you know once...
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Categories:
sorrow, cry, emotions, feelings, how
Form:
Quatrain
Frozen Farewell
Your breath upon the window freezes, lace
Yet, warm against my...
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Categories:
sorrow, analogy, christmas, goodbye, lost
Form:
Sonnet
Cinquain V
water
murmurs softly,
through the cool of exhaled
breath, against the stones it whispers,
secrets
secrets,
gently spoken,
lonely unbeckoned words,
hidden deep within broken hearts,
aching
aching,
melting sorrow
pours viscous and endless,
caressing emotions that...
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Categories:
loneliness, sorrow,
Form:
Cinquain
The Last Good Days of Innocence
A rose held before the dawn, overwhelmed by benevolent beauty,
its virginity violated by hostel hands,
only then will it reveal its blood-stained thorns,
where infatuated innocence is...
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Categories:
innocence, lost, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Moon in Pale DepressionMuted evidence proclaimed the subtle oddities of night
Lunar time should have reached the zenith of its height
No chirping crickets were heard, nor...
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Categories:
sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Theft Of My Will To Survive
Blindly
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair
neither the lantern’s flame
nor a compass rose can help me now
in disrepair...
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Categories:
sorrow, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form:
Free verse
When A Sparrow FallsI don’t know how many millions or billions
Of sparrows there are, but the Father does
How can he know when each sparrow falls?
He knows every detail...
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Categories:
bird, death, sorrow,
Form:
Lyric