Sad Free Verse Poems

Another HooDoo 

I Know You're Very Serious
Following Your Plan
But I Don't Seem To Play-Right
Any Way I Can.

I'm Just Another HooDoo
Picking Up A Scar!
Inviting 'Sober Mines'...

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I take the blade
like a sculptor takes his chisel—
not for art,
but for erasure.

Skin is too quiet.
It wears my face like a mask I never chose.
So...

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I would rather not know
I would rather not see
what they put on display
for me to see

I know that they feel
that they’re just divine
but to my...

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Loneliness has no friend itself 

It dwells in the shadows

Hide in the empty walls

Waiting for one sad loner

It exist within a lost soul..

Not a number...

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I’m gonna play my vinyl in the urinal, and that’s final
Life is bad when you're sad
Ain't you glad they took you out of school, coz...

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A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed...

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Happiness and Sadness
went on a romantic date.
There was so much chemistry
between them.

Sadness was carrying
a book of poetry.
Happiness was laughing.
Everything was going well, until...

Happiness said to...

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Missing you is like missing a shot,
It's so very painful because everyone puts the blame of you,
It's been a little over 2 years since,
July 3,...

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I'm stalking the ground.

Treading the lines between,

  half human and distorted frequency.

Slowly I recede. I'm chocked off from everything.

  A distant recollection, an...

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She taught her fury to dance on the edge of the abyss, hating like a silent storm,
I always thought it would pass like a cloud...

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We met in a coffee shop 
off Fifth Avenue
In Jersey. 

You were so magnetic; 
your eyes shone so brightly.

A couple of years passed by; 
and...

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I’ve moved out (of school),
I’m moving in (to school).
My joke is that I’m having a ‘moving experience.’

Graduating college (3 days ago) was a dream come...

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"How sad when it comes to face the world as an orphan! Chasing shadows, he/she searches for the love and protection lost. Having no trail...

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A loaf of bread, untouched, waiting for my late brother 
Finally home, he takes half the loaf and hands me the other
In his hand a...

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Line of inquiry:
“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on...

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