Best Sorrowful Poems
Below are the all-time best Sorrowful poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sorrowful poems written by PoetrySoup members
Umbrella*I Will Cry*
If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?
I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...
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Categories:
sorrowful, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
sorrowful, angst, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Soothing SerenadesPained piano keys compose
a chorus-less composition.
Melancholic moods crave
to sway back and forth
like bluebells and lilies dancing,
when kissed by the morning breeze
Forlorn flute...
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Categories:
sorrowful, analogy, deep, sad,
Form:
Alliteration
Drowning In the DarknessDrowning in the oppression of darkness,
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.
Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...
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Categories:
sorrowful, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Not all dreams come true
Mind softened,
watching fusions
of saffron strips
merge with scarlet hues,
elegantly charming
...
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Categories:
sorrowful, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Violin Notes Fall From Heaven No More
Her trembling twilight
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...
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Categories:
sorrowful, child abuse, death, Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Some Distant Shore
Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the...
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Categories:
sorrowful, flying,
Form:
Quatrain
November StarsNovember falls
In languid swirls
Of lacy sorrowful leaves
Waning circles
Of shortened light
How bold the cold becomes
Clearing the weighty clouds
From the pristine ebony ice
Of the heavens
Their astral beauty
Reflecting...
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Categories:
sorrowful, hope, longing, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
sorrowful, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Grandma Still Calls Your NameI will always remember those uneven paths,
which led me to you -
sorrowful reminder of promises I could not keep.
All you wanted was to sit...
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Categories:
sorrowful, death, grandfather, grandson,
Form:
Free verse
Melodies of the HeartIn a black and white world,
feathered fingertips caress
ebony and ivory keys -
melodically forming a myriad
of vibrant and vivid hues,
diversifying dulcet emotive reflections.
In a world...
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Categories:
sorrowful, analogy, love, music, romantic
Form:
Free verse
The Tempest In Your Heart
O daughter of thunder, slayer of dragons (and of men's hearts), why do you hurt me so? For which sin must I reside in this...
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Categories:
sorrowful, angst, missing you,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Death of PoetryI gaze beyond
the silver winged
heart of
twinkling twilight,
lost within metaphors
in warm cashmere
...
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Categories:
sorrowful, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
I wish I hadOnce upon a silent summer eve,
as fine vermilion lines,
between bleeding moonlight,
swiftly sailed across
my darkness and I,
sakura springs sang
...
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Categories:
sorrowful, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Come Walk With Me
Come, walk in the spring's budding forest with me,
Enraptured by musical sounds of the wild,
Where life dwells unhindered and gracefully free.
For children...
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Categories:
sorrowful, inspirational, nature, peace,
Form:
Villanelle