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Sadness Poems - Poems about Sadness

Sadness Poems - Examples of all types of poems about sadness 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 sadness.
Your sorrows
My friend, how deep can be your sorrows? Through smoke filled maze of modern days When time flies by in bleary haze And we don't know about tomorrow? Your eyes, once bright and full of life, Nowdays, instead, to my...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, friendship, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Smokescreen
Do I miss you, or do I miss the smoke - Of your promise on my lips? Both are warming on a chilly night, But here I struggle to breathe, I choke....Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, deep, depression, girlfriend, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Coming of Night
No one ever looks for the coming of night. We remain too absorbed in positivity. Not until it is too late for flight, When the darkness is upon us, we finally see. I should begin to wonder where all...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, dark, death, good night,
Form: Rhyme

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Rain
Love falls like rain, Onto my waxed face. Blending into tears of pain, From an unknown place. I can’t think straight, I can’t see clearly, I can’t love anymore. My sight blurred from burning, Spits of acidic fear that...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, 11th grade, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter's Shadows
Why does a winter day often cast Upon its grey streets thoughts of the past Sunshine, we gaily thought would never fade Laughter...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, angst, sad love, winter,
Form: Rhyme



Struggle with Sadness and Suffer with Pain
struggle with sadness having to suffer with pain nowhere left to go what you need to start do for you to write many poems occupy your mind will have a great time know what are able to do find a reason why...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
How long is the end?
I screamed loud, the scare from my diagnosis, My streams of tears filled seven hundred oceans. The doctor spoke bleakly of the prognosis, His face lay bare, devoid of all emotions. Now anguish walks with glee where dreams once...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, cancer, death, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Time Heals All
They say time heals all, the wounds are too deep. They say time heals all, just trying to sleep. They say time heals all, you or me. They say time heals all, we will see. They say time heals...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Friend
You came to be on a cold winter day My heart opened; you were her to say Her heart belongs to another, so you know I should have realized it was time to go Here heart loved him, she...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, cheer up, emotions, i
Form: Rhyme
My soul in tensed darkness
As my soul floats in tensed darkness, My heart beats in lifeless starkness, A faint hope pierces my despair, As my knees glued firm to prayer. I soared with sour taste of my sores, My favours, all burned to vapours, Poverty...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, dark, fear, poverty, prayer,
Form: Kyrielle
Dancing in the Rain
Dancing in the Rain Dancing in the Rain, I love the rain. I spent 30 years of my life in the desert, and only saw a little rain. E agora, I live in a country and a place where it rains. When...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, adventure, appreciation, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Beyond the Bark
A familiar path I walked frequently with glee the feeling of a constant stare came over me upon looking to find the place of the stare nobody was in sight, no one was even there Next day I decided...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, feelings, loss, perspective, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I remember my sadness through
This quill is calling out to you! Ink brighter than skies cold blue Even in my darkest desired silence. Metronome paced sands trickle steadily into sorrow's timepiece; my glass prison cells view And in the wake of saddest Decembers haze Even...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, devotion, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Hole in My Wall, the Hole in My Heart
A little bird whispered, soft yet clear, ?Truths I never wanted to hear. ?Echoes of laughter, sharp like knives, ?Behind my back, they carved their lies. Once we were twenty, a vibrant crew, ?Now I’m alone, the sky's gone blue.? Faces...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, absence, abuse, beauty, bird,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Shallow Hours
In Shallow Hours, graves are dug By words morose, Their hollow powers seem mundane, But are much worse. Being Lonely in a crowded room, With empty words Muttered by survivors; Whose frosty breath in time, With...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, cry, death, eulogy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

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