Long Sorrowfulness Poems

I'm succumbing to this numb feeling inside my dumb cranium
I've become someone else...a rebel...a worthless bread crumb
I will overcome these waves of emotion...drunk off of remorse's rum

I'm handsome in this pain of insanity and reign...

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A Song With no Name
From my grandfather and my dad and performed by their son and grandson, me.
It was an old melody with no name of a ballad my grandfather wrote a long time ago.
The...

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Sometimes, I sit and stare the wall
Sometimes, that name I just call
The name I was too fond to listen
In my eyes, the name just glistened

The name of the person, I could die for
The name of...

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In the safe refuge of lyrical poetry, I cocooned.
My broken shards fell on a tear-stained screen.
I am the one who steers my own route attuned.
With every brushstroke, many specks are seen.

My broken shards fell on...

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There’s something I cannot explain
We are on a different lane…
We’re in vain and full of disdain 
I’m sorry I caused you so much pain
I’m sorry if I hurt you so
If I did, you’d let me...

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I came to poetry a novice, a neophyte, a fledgling
oh sure, I had written as a child . . . 
but that was just the writing of a tenderfoot
as my life became more grievous and...

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I came to poetry a novice, a neophyte, a fledgling
oh sure, I had written as a child . . . 
but that was just the writing of a tenderfoot
as my life became more grievous and...

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It is symphonic
It is rhythmic
It tells a story,
of love and life,
of pleasure and pain, 
of joy and sadness;
a story of defeat and triumph

It is the invisible book
of the human experience
It has the power,
to move you,
to...

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seasons have became with no reasons,
looking at the light of the sun in winter and rainy clouds in summer,
I start to ask myself why all this?
perfect silence I tune into as I start to realize...

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I taste it,
The bitter vengeance,
That is seeking for… something,
For it to become sweet,

Reminiscences return to me,
Placing me back into my dark past,
The reality I try to avoid;
My hectic thoughts trigger void…
I slowly fade,

 As my...

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One bus sleeping in the valley
Deep night
Rescue team works
We get down from the bus
We are not strange but silence
Can't remove eyes
Clouds are moving like a cow
Moon stuck on hills
They are covered with dew and
-poor moonlight

In...

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Scattering into broken pieces
Of debris,
My life has become a black painting
Of nothingness,

Within myself I see,
 You concealing me,
I feel droplets of misery
Crawling into me, to simply become…
Me… 

I wonder if my tears
Could water the eternal...

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Diane Perna
BURNT TEARS


I remember a tormented childhood with
Dad’s words laced with poison and Mom 
tossed acid on my tears by saying no words
to stop it and even joined it.

I remember that even though I was...

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I could not cry enough tears or wallow in such regret
The crowds taunting jeers as upon His way they beset
Unable to express such inner pain such utter sorrowfulness 
In realizing such gain and how much...

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If only you can disappear,
And conceal your existence,
If only I can run,
Away from my un-lasting resistance,

Endless nights of suffering,
My eyes are imprisoned by tears,
I would always revive myself,
When I see you in my dreams,

Reality and...

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Deep in the shrine, sins
Deep in the courtroom, injustice
Deep in the costume, exposure
Deep in the constitution, lawlessness

Inside the adulthood, puberty
Deep in motherhood, breastlessness
In the paternity, womankind
In the smiles, sorrowfulness

Inside the forces, idleness
On the holiness, sacrilege
For...

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