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Melancholy Poems - Poems about Melancholy

Melancholy Poems - Examples of all types of poems about melancholy to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for melancholy.
Bear Tracks In The Snow
...You come to me, palpable, The way a candle flickers When the air is stirred, A vague mirage, a sense Of metaphysical existence But here, nevertheless, A wondering sensation one never forgets ......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, absence, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In A Field of Sunflowers
...In a field of golden sunflowers, Their faces turned towards the sun's warm embrace, A great white shark glides through the azure depths, Silent predator with a fearsome face. A......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, anxiety, deep, fear,
Form: Rhyme
In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats
...In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats, And threading along the leaf of life, these methods seem a sinister symphony. Open borders, and immigration comes like an under......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Walk
...I am running the last mile in my life, The age and tired feet have made my run to a limping walk, still, I walk and walk to the beacon of hope, Never let the pessimism take over the last straw ......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, life,
Form: Free verse
Betrayed by love, I sip the bitter nectar you provide
...Betrayed by love, I sip the bitter nectar you provide, A chalice transfigured from black ink, your verse a river, infernal. The burn grows in my throat, no choice do I have, I cannot flee, Each gu......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Homeland
...What’s a homeland, I don’t know Sounds a bit too much symbolic I’ve got no land of my own So it turns out hyperbolic This home concept is not real Could be my imagination Sort of melancholy......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, emotions, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If our Hearts Mesh
... Written: Apri 28, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sibilant deceit indeed! with a goal to charm, A melancholy girl fostered by her father. Never incite ......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, analogy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Slowly You Fade Away
...Slowly You Fade Away Before time erases your last shadow, The eyes of the world have begun to blur your outline. You dissolve slowly, before you get lost in oblivion. Mice-like eyes scan you, wit......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lessons Learned
... On the edge of the leaf, spinning, Out of control, glistening Slowly dancing – a waltzlike trembling, glad to see the hesitation of colors, graceful as sun’s reflection on the waters, lakes ......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, appreciation, blessing, dream, surreal,
Form: Free verse
a quest to find myself again
...The days were brighter then, When without the slightest effort, I’d succeed in making a good impression. Now it seems no one knows me to be “good”, How will they? I’ve hardly provided any proof I......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, anxiety, depression, desire, education,
Form: Free verse
At the crossroads of time, where April flinches in buds parted
...At the crossroads of time, where April flinches in buds parted, Spring dwells in the temple, a priestess in a procession of timid lights. A gentle breeze blows, carrying dreams stormy on the orbit ......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Craving a Smoke
...I’m craving a smoke I’m craving a drag, a poisonous and toxic puff of smog to fill my empty lungs to pass the time to feel the burn in my throat. I fill my body with solitude and me......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, dark, depression, drug, pain,
Form: Free verse
Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person
...Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person... hashtagged introvertedness trademark silently exorcised, ostracized, and vilified Impossible mission to resuscitate... a forsaken prom......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, 7th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind
...You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind, And you will be unstrung, in turn, from someone's necklace, like an exiled pearl. Often, partings dress in mute gar......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Within Our Bones
...My heart grew fond of you quickly your brown golden skin sparkled in the sunlight as we lay side by side an entrancing and sharp contrast to my melancholy paleness, sprawled in the grassy fi......Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, feelings, inspirational love, love,
Form: Free verse

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