Short Sad But True Poems

The lies over.
Denial turned page.
I locked inside me.
Gift you the key ... ...

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me losing my love
her, jealous 
      of every widow



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on August 28,...

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Being without you was sad, its true
those few months were so, so blue
Being without you, 
is something i definitely cant do...

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I cannot whistle
It's sad but true
I try and try
yet no sound comes through

My lips I purse
My teeth I grit
I try real hard
but blow out spit...

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when you live a thousand lives
and been a man to angel to demon
to god and back again
you'll come to understand
the greatest gift is
to forget...

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My computer's away
   So, too, my Muse
'Tis sad but true
   Wish 'twere a Ruse

Hope they'll be back
   Pray they'll return
So can be penned
   'Ode to a Vacant Urn'...

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Come one, come all! I've got a deal for you!
Some gently used poems for you to review!
Though some came out wrong
There yours for a song
I'm switching to knitting, so sad but true...



For Skat's contest......

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Sad but true
I miss you
Abruptly
Most surely

Why did you go?
My heart hurts
Arterial stabs
Pain redecorated

Darkness floods
Wet eyes weary
Painful melancholia
Grief prolongs




Leon Enriquez
19 March 2016
Singapore...

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I LOVE YOU!
Sad but true.
And when your threw with me
You’ll throw me away.
You’ll come back again.
When will you love me?
When will I see,
you’ll never be with me?
Could we ever be?
But it doesn’t change how
Much you mean to me....

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I've killed a man 
It's sad but true
For what he's done 
Could have happened to you
I've killed him not 
With gun nor knife
But with my thoughts
He has no life
I hate him now 
And forever more
Because his love
Shouldn't be a chore...

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What amount of regret will bring you back?
How much tears will I shed before I see you again?
Where does my pain bound to go?
Who am I to move on?
Why does death to you come so easy?


If misery to you is me,
I am miserable without you....

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touching hands with you
raising my arm to meet your fingertips and smile at the soft tingle
bitter berries sit on the edge of the window
fog pulling us closer together
i hope you remember me forever
even if forever isn't long enough for us...

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I was tempted by angels of Addiction
and the devil of Alien affection. My
dying wish, a dirty martini enema
to scour my sanguine soul and write
poetry to suit my heralding headings.
Leave your dreary dungeon self behind
No pain for time served.
No time for pain served.
Love is all around...

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Chapter Four of Mecham's Soul of America is about
racial equality, white supremacy and women's suffrage. 
These have been the primary issues of our times. 
Will have to put this in Poetry Soup. Am receiving 
resistance when I express my thoughts and feelings
on Facebook. Sad but true. 

Jim Horn...

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It got wither before it bloom
Yet my heart still pounds for you
If only we only we rebirth 
Let our love bloom 
But not again as greedy and stupid man
If only as a teeny dew drop
And thee as a scarlet rose
Rolling and kissing 
through your soft scarlet petals
And dying in you , if only we rebirth...

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Words within whirls
Sense subtle swirls


Words on the edge
Jump off the ledge


Words blot this page
Calm steers the rage


Words once cryptic
Now weave magic


Words sad but true
Fling right on cue


Words weave work well
True timely tell



Leon Enriquez
26 August 2015
Singapore...

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Seems like only yesterday I saw your face
 If only I knew
 I would take you in my arms
 Tell you I love you
 Over & over I cry
 It's sad & It's true
 And It's sad that It's true
 I will grieve for you
 In between my heavy breaths
 Picture you & our moments spent
 From my heart to yours
 I will truly miss.............YOU...

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I am here for you forever.
Goodnight my love.
And you would think things would end there,
Wouldn't you? The reader of thoughts.
Let's all sing a hymn
For my love, so sad and true.

The dove of the shadow
Flies to a light anew
Your eyes, your smile,
Let it begin the day.
We are your chorus.
We are your love at play....

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Losing love can be
  sad but true.
  It can happen to me.
  It can happen to you.
  That's why I say,
 "Seize the day,"
 for sweet memories will never fade away.
 Put them in your heart's treasure chest
 and keep hoping for the best.

By:  Carole O’Terry Duet
Copyright:  2/12/2018
“All Rights Reserved”...

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A Sad But True Thought

When racing world pales deep, its darkness takes first stage
evil parades as good, soon becomes all the rage.
When humanity walks blind, rather than open eyed
graveyards will fill with those, that far too early died.

Robert J. Lindley, 5-17-2018
Quatrain, ( World Racing Headlong Into The Dark Abyss)...

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It's so hard
to say goodbye
when ones we love
fly
away on angels wings
so hard to remember
goodbye
is not forever
just a moment
in time
a fleeting moment
to be endured by the
faithful
to be overcome
by the children of
God
but still we
cry
sad but true
cry we do
please
just hold on
until the angels
come for 
you...

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Silently screaming.


At the end of the day all things end.
When all is said and done, we are merely men.
Nearly men never find their true love.
We are left so close, but never touched.
So far from being,
Always only ever seeing and dreaming,
While inside we remain…silently screaming.


(C)2017 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved....

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Sauvignon oh Sauvignon!
My crimson grapey friend
While I enjoyed my time with you
I'm sorry it must end

Cabernet oh Cabernet
Yes you I used to know
Sad but true, I’m done with you
I’ve moved on to Bordeaux

Bordeaux, Bordeaux oh my Bordeaux
You vineyard berry blitz
The summers here, and I declare
I choose a white wine spritz...

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There are instances in nature that imitate the nature of some humans.
Tis sad but true that...

a mocking bird makes fun of another bird who sings more beautifully

a thorn pricks until it draws blood, but cannot injure the rose

a moth thinks he's classier than a pupa, until the butterfly emerges

a dog chews on a bone but he never gets to enjoy the meat...

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War is such an awful thing, 
insanity can sometimes bring, 
like my cousin the zippo man, 
who burnt the huts the squealing and,
 came home and shot himself... 
poor John was damned...by Vietnam.


sad and true and tears the heart,
war is deadly, the aching part,
they go away, do not return,
just leave living heartache burns,
no delight...Don Johnson...

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