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Sad Iambic Pentameter Poems

These Sad Iambic Pentameter poems are examples of Iambic Pentameter poems about Sad. These are the best examples of Iambic Pentameter Sad poems written by international poets.

Depressed by David Loewen

My mind is boggled down
My chest feels wrapped too tight,
Just wanna curl up in a ball
Sure as hell don't wanna fight.

I wanna lean back in...

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Categories: depression, sad,

My First English Poem by MILBERT SALMASAN

A Realization

Once upon a time, a baby was born
In a small town near the green mountains. 
He was living life off from thorn.
Blessed! But he’s...

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Categories: god, heaven,

One and Only Hue by Gregory R Barden


I stood atop a mountain, long ago,


               My breath gone, from...

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Categories: appreciation, beauty, color, romance,

Jerusalem by Jun Gonzales

The holy city prized for ancient fame
With silent walls she wails in agony
For centuries ungodly conflicts reign
Her priests and prophets mourn captivity

Unqueened, for her ravished...

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Categories: city, jesus, jewish, sad,

This Time of Year- For Jean Jack by Eileen Manassian

I smiled at you as you sang Christmas song
you stood enthronged by others, bringing cheer
my heart was sad; it thought of all that's wrong
and why...

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Categories: loss, mother,

Giving Thanks-2-for someone special by James Inman

So sad, this year has naught in life to live.
I find it hard to grasp the thanks to give.

Yet, deep inside I know if I...

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Categories: thank you, thanksgiving,

Death Invites No Fear by CayCay Jennings

(blank verse)


Not long, but clear and strong, came Dad to me.
His death was tear-fresh grief most numbing new.
Dad's words steered me away from tragedy
And gave...

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Categories: death, fear, spiritual,

Beware of death by olusegun Arowolo

He creeps in like a thief unseen when dark
and steals the soul when fast asleep or sad,
His time can't be measured by heart or eyes,
Governs...

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Categories: death, nostalgia,

Sad Journeyman of Death by John lawless

Sad Journeyman of Death

Sad journeyman of life’s unending tests
bides time in loathsome sojourn cross each dawn
respecting naught but future’s numbered breaths
a-weep upon the touch of...

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Categories: death, family, war,

FOREST GIRL by Vee Bdosa

    FOREST GIRL
I'd walk down through the forest in the rain
to see the girl in green and feel her pain
uncertain of her...

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Categories: confusion, culture, nature,

A Quiet Storm by Mike Gentile

     A quiet storm is raging in my head
The mangled thoughts, they churn out of control
     Confusion...

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Categories: confusion, depression, lost love,

Jail House Laughter by John Philips

Forded laughter, empty of mirth.
A pretense of amusement, empty of worth.

Jail house laughter, hard and brittle.
Louder than normal, but means so little.

Laughing just to keep...

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Categories: prison,

God Knows Where I Am by Sandra Haight

My God knows where I am, my body, soul.
   He sees me now inside this deep, dark hole
imprisoned in these rooms and in...

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Categories: horror, mental illness, sad,

Foreign Exchange Students by Janice Canerdy

			

		The high-school kids who came from foreign lands
		to spend one year at my small school inspired
		us teachers. Their adaptability
		amazed me. It was clear they most...

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Categories: education, inspiration,

Whore In the Fog by Vee Bdosa

       WHORE IN THE FOG
All evening fog is settled from the ground,
not right in where it goes, nor where...

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Categories: french, paris,

The Ride by Daniel Turner

The old man looked a little out of place
Astride his pony on the carousel
A smile from yesterday across his face
As if he were entranced in...

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Categories: imagination, memory, sad,

All We Love and Cherish Today by Curtis Forsythe

Nothing of true value comes without cost,
and everything dear will someday be lost-
causing much pain and relentless sorrow,
the deepest sadness we will ever know.
This is...

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Categories: love hurts,

The Fall of Babylon by Vee Bdosa

     THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this...

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Categories: analogy, earth day, war,

Quelled: End of the Road by Dominic Amezimi

Thy gaze; like those Persian spears full in flight,
Thrust 'n us to see the tales in those brown eyes -
Shimmers, like powdered silver beneath sunlight
Are...

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Categories: friendship, relationship, sad love,

Forest Girl by Vee Bdosa

    FOREST GIRL
I'd walk down through the forest in the rain
to see the girl in green and feel her pain
uncertain of her...

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Categories: absence, nature,