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History Sad Poems

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


At the Crux
4/8/24

Aww shucks
Still at the crux
In a state of flux
With reality still out of touch
I've been puzzled much
So I smoke a couple blunts
That's a double dutch
From...

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Categories: sad, dark, deep, life, poetry,



Premium Member The Great American Make-Believe
Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity.
I grew up among the repetitious homes,
isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity,
the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome.

Repugnant yet...

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Categories: sad, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,

Premium Member A Century Turns: Soviet Union's Life Expectancy: I
Chapter 1: The End of the Eastern Gilded Age


'Twas thrice yon 'ere time clichés galore, albeit, one two many times, that fairy tale's opening wouldst...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad, analogy, appreciation, death, family,

Premium Member Purim Reprise
  Purim, holiday of hints and masks
  Tears turn to joy and back 
    Jewish souls on the racks

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Categories: sad, death, history, holiday, joy,

Premium Member Words written in stone
There's a field nearby with words written in stone
Ash set in then blew away; like fallen snow
Planes came in dropping bombs till all atone
Following, guns...

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Categories: humanity, sad, war,



This Time We'll Do It Right
I know you say that there’s bodies
across the Russian land,
outside of abandoned work camps,
where countless souls were damned,
and yes, there’s twenty million gone
by those who...

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Categories: sad, death, evil, history, humanity,

Your Flirting Kept Me Hurting
I never knew that I could hurt
So bad till I saw you flirt
With a girl behind the bar
Smiling brightly like a star
I was gonna get...

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Categories: sad, feelings, hurt, love hurts,

Premium Member Bittersweet



Bittersweet is the weeping ~ when loving someone not yours for keeping

Don't be a simpleton, a schnook ~ I'm not writing a history book...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad,

La Malinche
Oh La Malinche
A woman of two lands 
In your hands laid the destiny of two lands
The choice was yours to make
To choose which land it...

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Categories: sad, betrayal, romance, romantic love,

Premium Member Black and White
My steps are not too distant from yours 
...and yours 
illuminating offers of respect, 
removing doubtful intentions.

look around when crashing down
I am beside you, waiting...

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© Lee Norton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad, anger, care, england, goodbye,

Of A Bird With Broken Wings
It’s a first glance of injury, but a forming thought of illusion
Based on a history of empty answers and polished doubt
You try and trust in...

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© S. Grace  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad, betrayal, feelings, how i

Existence Without Cause
Strung along, I am a fool
Always working for others
Once branded a handy tool
Foot on my neck
Boot lodged for good
I barter and sweat
A soul without identity
I...

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Categories: sad, 10th grade, career, desire,

Premium Member Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet

What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...

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Categories: sad,

Premium Member Key
what, I wonder, did you unlock
winter songs of summer birds
in a dingy cell with clawed-at walls
in drawing rooms where princes died
and all the soldiers marching...

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Categories: sad, deep, history, metaphor, mystery,

The Sadness of the Brazilian Forests
I write the sadness of the Brazilian forests, 
About modern centuries and glass cities,
Tattooed Indians who are murdered too,
For a handle of gold or green...

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Categories: nature, sad, society,


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