Short Pain Sad Poems

Short Pain Sad Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Pain Sad by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Pain Sad by length and keyword.


Displaced

Tossed high up in air
Cradled in valiant fort
Oust Archimedes
Vastness being inside the dot
White dreams ignobly sold
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Are You Insultive?

Insultive, are you here today? Why hurt me? Pain again? Life is way too short for this, love not hurt for me.
Form: Shadorma

The Inevitable

I didn't die for the lack of air in my lungs!
But with the inevitable fact that--
I am stuck in the labyrinth of suffering.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Sailing

he longed to sail away,

from all his broken dreams, 

even If, 

his sailing was done,

In muddy puddles and streams.
Form: Rhyme

Quaere

There is no doubt that 
you have the endless power
to destroy me. The 
real question is, whether you 
intend to do it or not.
© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka


How Can I Live

It shook the world with chilling grief
Crying shame and disbelief 
Crushing every sense of pride
How can I live, where can I hide
Form: Rhyme

Permanence

i thought sadness was just a feeling
'til you made it my addiction
i thought pain was just temporary
'til you tattooed it on my skin

Premium Member Despair

despair dusts hearts dreary draped in stark pain debris that angst next dresses more hopeless depressed
Form: Cinquain

Hurt

A melancholy melody plays in my head,
And my heart’s sinking in despair,
My eyes are sad and red,
Down my face,
Trickles down a single tear.
Form: ABC

Burn

You may have lit the fire and burned me, 

But the fault lies with me.

 I never attempted to snuff the flames,

I deserved to burn.
© Ezra Cook  Create an image from this poem.

Sobriquet


Sadness fills me
Heartache shrouds me
Anguish consumes me 
Need overwhelms me
Endless tears unseen




DESPAIR (the utter loss of hope)
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Facing the summer alone

They buried her horse today.
She was truly losing her best friend.
All she'd have now memories.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Needs new strategy

Feels herself falling to pieces
In a basket collects the shattered fragments
Fears she’s losing the battle



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Spirits of Freedom Fighters

I saw 
the spirits of 
the freedom fighters
rising from ashes
and addressing
the cowardice
countrymen:
Is this 
for this
we had fought for 
your freedom?

Unrequited

Am I that much impenetrable,
or does he deliberately refuse to describe?
Why do I have heard all that he never said,
but he fails to realise what I have inscribed?
Form: Quatrain

Family

What does it mean,
Family?

Surely,
It doesn't mean arguments,
Stealing,
Secrets,
Lies,
Pain.

Or maybe,
That is the meaning of family,
Well,
It is for mine.
Form:

Premium Member Eccedentesiast

He flashes his smile 

                     for all of humanity...

to mask his deep pain


Date written: 06/27/2020
Form: Senryu

Not a Good Day

Sometimes I cry
And I don't know why.
I feel I may die,
So I let out a sigh.

Sometimes I lie
To friends that care.
They ask me why, 
Cause they know I need prayer.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Under the Thumb

Brainwashed
Dreams quashed

----------------

30 October 2017

For the "One Footle Only" contest, sponsored by Judy Konos.
(Honorable Mention, after 3 x podium placements)
Form: Footle

Painful Sadness

P-aralysed.     S-uffering
A-lways.         A-lone
I-nside.          D-estroyed
N-ervously.     N-umb
F-eeling.         E-mpty
U-nloved.        S-ore
L-onely.          S-ilence
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member A Somber Portrait

Portrait of deep pain-
showed sadness in every hue
that told a moving,
story that seized my vision.
as time sauntered by slowly.














Alexis Y.
12-09-2020
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Everglow

Today's the day
When all of the heartbreaking songs
Play at random
Today's the day
I don't skip them
In annoyance
Today's the day
I'll press play
And embrace the pain
Lovingly

No One Else

It was supposed to be you,
That I loved forever,
That I spend the rest of my life with.
I guess not all love stories come true.
There was no one better,
No one else to love,
Except you…
Form: Haiku

Lockup

I never see the stars anymore.
Whenever I was losing my mind,
I'd stare out my window,
the one I now lack.
But now all there is,
are the lights on the monitor,
and the beat of my heart.
Form: Verse

Strange Love

let me drink
from your clean waters
and i will not be 
ever thirsty again
a strange love
is burning me alive
in my own desires
and all this pain my love
is raping my soul
again and again

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