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Sad Lament Poems

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


Premium Member The Lament of Zeus
Thou, Minos, know I’m weary of all things,
Of wars and deaths and cabbages and kings.
I wield that battered shield that is the sky,
And with my...

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Categories: lament, angst, death, myth, power,



Premium Member No Pirate’s Lament
When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold
When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold
When a pirate...

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Categories: lament, sea,

October, a lament to love and heartache

October breaks my heart
When it ends, begins
And the days in between
It never lives up to my expectations
I am often disappointed in the weather
And other various...

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Categories: lament, autumn, death, feelings, grief,

The Wife's Lament
"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD,...

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Categories: lament, husband, lost love, love,

A Sister's Lament
Is it wrong to feel jealous of my brothers?  
Am I evil for envying their wild freedom,  
For wanting, just once, to go...

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Categories: lament, africa, anger, emotions, freedom,



Lament
What more a f*cking fickle fable
Is found forlorn like this

Full of feeble fallacies
Far from fields of bliss

A word abused like ‘love’ 
withdraws,
so when it finally...

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Categories: lament, abuse, angst, anxiety, lost

April 15 Lament Watching the News
April 15 Lament Watching the News

While watching the news
I am constantly lamenting
The sad state of political discourse
In these increasingly
Disunited United States of America.

Where we have...

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Categories: lament, america, anger, angst, moving

Premium Member Lonely Lament
Darkness falls on the doomed ship’s dazzling frame,
Pride and joy of Maiden Voyage destroyed, 
The wreck descends into a frigid void 
Sinking souls to their...

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Categories: lament, sad, sea,

Premium Member Wolfs Lament
a forlorn howl
his mate is lost or gone
he is lonesome tonight
she cannot be replaced
the way of wolves
his lament is sad
the moon cries silent tears...

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Categories: lament, animal,

Love's Lament
Midnight shadows haunt me across the distant expanse of time,
As Moonlight Lady sings her love song to my broken heart.
Her hand is hidden from my...

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Categories: lament, allegory, allusion, anger, angst,

Premium Member Unrequited
My mind mainly meanders where I yearn –
A universe where I cannot return,
To lament my life’s unchangeable truth
And exhume choicest corpses of my youth.
Maundering 'midst...

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Categories: lament, desire, fantasy, life, memory,

Premium Member Lament
Highland heartache echoes in midnight air
In ruins the castle lies woebegone
Sadness reverberates so be aware
Lovers' painful lament in ghostly song.

Ruins are pervaded by history
Fiery affaire...

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Categories: lament, emotions, gothic, romantic,

Premium Member An Irish Wolfhounds Lament
An Irish wolfhound from Londonderry
was sold to a rancher in Tucumcari
Yesterday: Knolls and lakes
Today: Cactus and snakes
His Celtic heart’s turned sad and contrary...

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Categories: lament, humor,

A Loner's Lament
what else could i write?
nothing’s left in my fight.
when all reluctant faces turn,
my eyes will darken and burn.

i thought of many solutions,
yet none have seized.
i...

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Categories: lament, angst, betrayal, confusion, depression,

A Lonely Spirit's Lament
I stand here on a tombstone
where many old lovers died
my eyes filling up the ocean
from rivers of droplets cried

is this some silent nightmare
no, the sad...

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Categories: lament, fantasy, fate, loneliness, lost,


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