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Best Unhappy Poems

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


Premium Member The Unhappy Hostess
Come into my house, 
Sit anywhere you like. 

No, not at my table, 
No, not on my chair. 
Come into my house,
Sit anywhere.

I invited you,...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unhappy, anti bullying, appreciation, cancer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unhappy, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: unhappy, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Caressed By Vines

Like tender loving arms, they wrap around
   old monuments of stone set on the ground;
those silent sentinels that stand their guard
  ...

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Categories: unhappy, bereavement, grave, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member - a Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness -
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates a murder time and time again, 
As the...

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Categories: unhappy, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative



Lives To Live
I need more lives for me to live
In this universe of beauty;
I plan more days to find new ways
Of doing freedom's duty.
I need not more...

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Categories: unhappy, life, sweet, autumn, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do You Need Some Pixie Dust
Laughing, dancing, having the time of her life,
Faerie Fun went from mushroom house to toadstool cottage,
Spreading joy,
Playing with everyone
In a kind and pleasant way.
There was...

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Categories: unhappy, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Just Saying My Piece
When Poetry Soup becomes infested with partisan rubbish, 
It will be difficult for liberal, creative poets, like me to flourish 
Who seek a safe place...

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Categories: unhappy, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
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: unhappy, happiness, life, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Ode To Trolls Hackers and Scammers
An Ode To Trolls Hackers And Scammers. 
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Hideous evil creatures
Attention seekers
Cowards who hide behind computers
Cold-hearted scavengers
Not unlike preying vultures
.
Childish and pathetic
Bloodsucking leeches
Inflated egotistical heretics
Unhappy with...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unhappy, abuse, angst,
Form: Ode
Premium Member My Muse Is a Flower Garden
Autumn will forever be the season of death to me,
but like time, I do not remain cemented in the past.
Memories of ghosts will always lead me...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unhappy, analogy, assonance, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Father/Son Zoo Trip
“Why do the Rams behave violently?”
The little boy queried of his father.
“They need all their might to fight the Jaguars,
But Jags are fast, don’t know...

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Categories: unhappy, animals, funnymom, mom,
Form: Rhyme
A Little Piece of Paradise
A Little Piece of Paradise

An Eden-like orangery, her secret place for refreshing reverie,
a haven, from an abusive marriage, where her body and mind are free.
Away...

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Categories: unhappy, abuse, emotions, freedom, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Within
Within


Play Slipknot’s ‘Snuff’ song four times and use these lyrics:
(Do not use the official video clip. It has more than just the song.)


I still feel...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unhappy, friend, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member One Halloween
It wasn't the usual Halloween night
Of parties and goblins, of which there'd been many
It was a year of big changes, for our family had moved
At...

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Categories: unhappy, childhood, halloween, holiday, me,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs