Sad Free Verse Poems

Ocean's Embrace, A Warrior's Heart

Shattered news, a whispered word,
"Cancer," they said, my world was blurred.
A mammogram's shadow, stark and deep,
A secret held I couldn't keep.
My...

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So many days have passed
Too many to count
Not that I would want to know
But the thing to remember
The more days behind me
The fewer there are...

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She gaslighted me until my self worth had been burned,
She held her torch tightly in her hand, 
Prepared to blow up our friendship once more,
A...

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She gaslighted me until my self worth had been burned,
She held her torch tightly in her hand, 
Prepared to blow up our friendship once more,
A...

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in a soft sigh or quiet curse
    a bubble of pain
in the embers of a fading fire
    sparks of...

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I would numb the pain if I had the chance,
I would sew back all the hurt
I would go back in time to just take away...

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You're not doing a stellar job
distracting me with idle chatter.

Life is not something to be ignored
and swept under a mat.
I've been living in limbo
no matter...

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Man is a jumble of contradictions,
I know, a hard nut to crack!
so unfathomable, so mysterious-
at once a Satan and an angel.

To the outer world I...

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One step away
from waves that play.
In that fresh light,
he let go that night.

I thought back then,
that was all it had been.
I stayed to see
each wave...

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Her newborn girl wasn't given to her
for the crucial skin to skin contact
instead the nurses took the baby away
and returned the daughter back to the...

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I am a penny and
I've been around
For centuries, some of
Us are worth a small fortune
Others not so much
We're being phase out
And I won't exist
Anymore, it...

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To keep my words from falling apart,
I need the blood that leaves my heart.

I chose to stay and face the pain,
so it won’t feel so...

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Remembering Jane

“Oh Lord, Won’t You 
Buy Me A Color TV.”

A Genius In Spirit,
A Saturated Soul.
All The Standard Methods
Served To Aid Her In
Forming A Beautiful
PEARL.

Her And...

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We keep going in circles 
Til we fall to the ground 
The silence is supposed to be quite 
but its getting loud
Slowly i stop breathing...

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I'm not worth a lot
But you are
Your more then the moon and stars 
You hold the key to my deeply broken heart
Your more then everything...

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