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Best Sorrowful Poems

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Premium Member 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



Premium Member Some Hearts Can Never Be Tamed
Once 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, angst, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soothing Serenades
Pained 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, analogy, deep, sad,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not all dreams come true
Mind softened, 
watching fusions 
of saffron strips
merge with scarlet hues,
elegantly charming 
             ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, flying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member November Stars
November 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
Premium Member Did We Notice
        Emily: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
     ...

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Categories: sorrowful, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma Still Calls Your Name
I 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, death, grandfather, grandson,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melodies of the Heart
In 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, analogy, love, music, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrowful, angst, missing you,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Death of Poetry
I 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
Premium Member I wish I had
Once 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Shattered Sighs