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Best Unhappiness Poems

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


Premium Member Hymn To Unhappiness
Oh, unhappiness,

you relentless tormentor of my heart and mind,

forgive me for I have never thought to thank you for

your presence in my life

but

I have just...

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Categories: unhappiness, happiness, pain, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: unhappiness, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Trapped In the Past -
Escape from a world of unhappiness and sorrow
Days and weeks pass and I realize that I despise this cold hole

Let me be ...

Trapped not only...

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Categories: unhappiness, dark, deep, emotions, lost,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member An Ugly World Truth
A faithless entity unhappiness coldly it turns the eyes around coils 
breeding misery a vice with hate that consumes unconscious reality

Crawling underneath a thin veil...

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Categories: unhappiness, abortion, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Accepting Life V
I turned,
towards my friend, who always was complaining
about the injustices and hardships of life and in 
a calm voice I asked him:
 
" Tell me,...

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Categories: unhappiness, happiness, life, men,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Inward and Outward Beauty
If a man is blessed with outward beauty but lacks the beauty of the soul 
Never he, true happiness would find!

However,

If a man lacks outward...

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Categories: unhappiness, beauty, happiness, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mytopia
~MyTOPIA~
 
A sip of tea in my Magic Cup.
A fancy bowl for my little pup.
Faraway from a world corrupt.
I found reason and meaning to reconstruct.
...

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Categories: unhappiness, fantasy, imaginationlife,
Form: Couplet
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: unhappiness, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dad, My Fascination
Dad, how much I loved you
You did not give me time to tell;
So quick was your way to depart
That sorrow and grief
That came my way
Are...

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Categories: unhappiness, dad, father, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become...

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Categories: unhappiness, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Mental Illness
MENTAL ILLNESS

Mental Illness is a sickness of the mind.
It’s the sickness that rarely crosses our minds,
yet, it covers a wide range of conditions of the...

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Categories: unhappiness, mental illness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Sulu, Lock Phasers and Await My Command 2
(Spock)

Captain, sensors indicate a power surge
Resonating through their ship's body
I'm sure I don't have to remind you
They have their own Scotty




(the questioning me)

But where has...

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© The Fringe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unhappiness, philosophy, spacefaith, fear, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Her Indifference
Certain it is,
That her rejection, untold suffering upon   
Him, would bring
 
But

Her indifference,
Would be the one, his condemnation to 
Unhappiness to sign! ...

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Categories: unhappiness, happiness, lost love,
Form: Epigram
Cultural Events
Art Gallery. Museum. Parks. Zoo.
Cultural Events.
Glazed like raku pottery
In charcoal rainbows warbled all dark
On pidgeon necks
Like hell’s angels, dumbed,
Blowing smoke through your mind
In a haze...

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Categories: unhappiness, urbancity, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Color Me Purple
When my heart 
    has a mixture of emotions,
             ...

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Categories: unhappiness, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

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