Sadness Poems - Poems about Sadness

On an island kissed by sea and sky, Where winds blow soft and people sigh, Lived a girl named Masumbuko— Her name meant pain, and life moved slow. A house of many, food was thin, Love stayed quiet, locked within. Mama was tired, worn and gray, Baba stared as dreams slipped away. Masu, strong but still so small, Carried water, cleaned it all. School was...

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May is the season of Rain droplets of soft note tapping rhythm into my coat tip— tap. tip— tap. she walks with me and starlight for a silent talk midnight May is the season of Rain I watch her dance as sun sinks beneath the fence— tip— tip— ...

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Coal-brown smoke smudged lightly with hesitant fingers into the wet grey sky at the edges, a yellowing of dried grass scattered with copper berries fallen from their vines, a leaf spinning crazily on a breeze, a tentative parting of fingertips and a face turned slightly from mine – a profile obscured by dark hair – and eyes scan and count the pylons for something to do. The...

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I sit and I wait Wait for your return Have I done enough My tummy starts to turn I don’t know when it will happen or why I want to stay but here is all I’ve wanted, since I’ve been away. I look for my home, but home is in the past. Now everything is broken,gone and I’m the last....

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Happiness and Sadness went on a romantic date. There was so much chemistry between them. Sadness was carrying a book of poetry. Happiness was laughing. Everything was going well, until... Happiness said to Sadness: "I can make your life very happy!" Sadness got up and left. Happiness was in shock No too happy now asked the universe: "What did I do wrong?" A little voice said: Sadness is fine being as...

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When someone first dies and leaves us, It’s hard to lift that sense of gloom, When their body is no longer with us, But their presence still fills the room. But within our treasured memories, We can recollect their smiling face, For in our heart-of-hearts we know, They are now in a much better place. ...

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Was it truly your choice to live in a world that fills you only with anger and sadness, To drown in your silent fury and that of your comrades, until silence becomes a painful cry? Did you choose for your limbs to twitch, to fight, for your feet to kick, your hands to scratch, Or is it just...

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When I was small the starlings roosted one by one on grandma’s party line wire (like jittery black clothespins) to bandy their gossip back and forth until the wire hummed with their inanities. By luck my slingshot found its mark. One toppled from the wire soundlessly like a clothespin blown loose in the wind. The others rattled on, oblivious, no questions asked. It dropped straight down. I ran...

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Sad can permeate, Grey, dank days create, Time heals, does pass by, Gloom sees end to each sigh, We all need remedies, Keep up face smilies, Each person can use, New focus to choose, Once we all wailed, Again the assassins have failed, You'll wake in own skin, Cheers! is best medicine!...

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"Silence Faded with a Soft Embrace" ...

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Grief is the wave that rocks the boats in the bay, It comes, it goes, sometimes it stays, It can lap at your feet or drag you under, It can come without warning, or with a clap of thunder, It is the wind in your hair, The chill of the night, It is the arms you wrap around yourself when you...

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I Tried to Unlearn ……. his name , his face, his memory but each morning they kept resurfacing; rubber ringed feelings that would not sink no matter how hard I pushed down. So I journeyed to places that had rooted our relationship: The park where the broad-shouldered oak unwrapped delicacies of intimate memories then leaning in much closer it shared a consolatory shadow. The...

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Love and sorrow walk as one, A bond unbroken, never undone. For every kiss, a tear will fall, A whispered ache, a lover’s call. The heart that loves must bear the weight, Of joy entwined with sorrow’s fate. For love is cruel, it does not spare, It lingers long, yet leaves despair. It wears a veil, it hums a...

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Going through the storms of life, I thought my tears had dried up. Unexpectedly, the pain was so great. Is it true that today my heart is aching Or am I strangling my heart Each day that passes, The pain grows greater, Tears are about to fall. And I know I am living true to myself. Someone...

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i wonder if this feeling will pass. if the skin rotting beneath my eyes will become a permanent color of blue, if the bruises on my knees will fade to nothing more then flesh. they say this feeling goes away as you age- im not so sure about that. i feel the agonizing sensation of pain rotting...

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