Long Sad thoughts Poems

To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...

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Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...

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Hope and Effort

                            When the sky is veiled...

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Hello my sister


I remember our school days
How i would wait for you
And sometimes i would forget my lunch. or my spending money
You would always give half of what you had
And i would do the same...

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I awake from a distant dream....

Thinking of all I'd seen
Remembering what was in my mind's eye
Such sad, sad thoughts of a time gone by

I remember the heat of the desert and the dangers of camouflage...

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And there are not enough cubicles and grey paneling that 
sugar rock candy lights won’t cut 
the sapling eye from its still decline into Abyss.

And there are not enough sad thoughts wars rapes to gratify...

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Pretty pink pansies soothe searing souls; seek them; take walks.
Offerings of friendship to another can distract depressive thoughts; open your heart.
Evoking visions of amusing moments, absorb melancholy; envision funny times.
Talk about something else, like tantalizing...

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I stand alone and gaze upon the field full of crosses,
In silence, with an empty soul, I think of the days that have passed,
My pockets are full of sad thoughts, like faithful dogs,
I stand alone...

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It’s quiet in this house again tonight.
Alone and I have the television on blocking my sad thoughts.
Sleeping tablets and bottles of wine and I know it’s not right.
Still, I keep those visions of you on...

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Old letter
Old letter in the bottom of my drawer,
Old thoughts laid on the paper many-many moons
ago;
Old ideas hidden in a tattered envelope,
Old feelings gathered on a sheet of paper,
Now yellow and tatty like the envelope.
Who...

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I feel so trapped I cannot breathe,
someone please, please rescue me.
I sit in my room with a pillow over my face,
wishing I was in a better place.

I need some help I will admit,
The only thing...

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What good is my help when you can't help yourself?

Lonely, Misunderstood, Trapped, Suffocating and Despair..

Normally he is happy, trying to help others smile
Lately, he has lost all will to do such..
So every night he sits...

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She ran!
Away from the noise
Away from all her troubles
Away from her sorrows
Away from their judgmental stares
The useless side talks
The back biting
She ran!
Away from it all
And into the warm embrace of the night
The road was lonely
But...

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1/28/23

It's fact or not
From here to way beyond Camelot
I live it up and laugh a lot
Take off like an astronaut

Took one too many dabs and shots
Moving at the speed of a half knot
I started seeing...

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Pardon me if I don't come correct with this poem
Everything I have will be left in this poem
Go ahead and judge me I really don't care
You haven't lost my blood, Fought my battles or Shed...

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My baby is going away. I lay trapped in these over whelming sad thoughts. Of the one I've been so sure wouldn't hang me out to dry. Let me drown in my own pain. Would...

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"Bliss like thine is brought by years;
Dark with torment and with tears."

Emily Bronte - Sleep Not (1846) st.1
_______________________________

often, I am in the throes and agony of my mind
I am tortured and each day I grapple...

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I have seen sorrow falling down
All around, blurring the black night
With rain where my sad thoughts can drown
Coloring rainbows with kindness

I have seen joy in blushing hues
Caressing the music I write
In whispers of love through...

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The night lingers for as long as you would
On mine mind, back and forth, with my eyes closed,
You and those eyes, how uneasy I feel,
I kept wishing you'd stay longer, and voila, you're here
In my...

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“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning dew 

To which image, oh dear soul,...

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MASTERPIECE

A cordial wish
A thoughtful gift
A sincere gesture to show that he cares
Disheartened reaction
The response spits rejection
Times like these, life can seem so unfair

Bewilderment stuns 
Deep hurt succumbs 
Space between the two, grows a bit more
Heart's...

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If I ever learn how to cry there will be so many tears that I will drop
I'll shed a tear for every relationship gone wrong and everyone that I've lost
I'll cry for every tragedy in...

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Abandoned baby on the doorstep,
	    a post-partum 
        depression delivery

Pitter-patter sound of feet running away
Binocular scissors
cut the umbilical cord emotionally

Driving in the morning rain
to nowhere...

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Noises That Cry And Shout


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The image of your face in my memory resides, 
and now after all you are by my side.

Every night I stare at the moon, 
hoping I will meet you soon.

Loving you makes me see things...

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