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Somber Poems - Poems about Somber

Somber Poems - Examples of all types of poems about somber 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 somber.
In the tremble of the evening and the rustle of the unfinished letter
...In the tremble of the evening and the rustle of the unfinished letter, My aged hand, shrouded in the mist of memories, writes the last farewell, Under the blue cloak of celestial silence, waiting f......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Twilight Romance Part 2
...In twilight's quiet, 'neath the sky's dimmed hue, Two hearts murmured low, as love's frail seedlings grew. With every beat, a yearning, in every glance, a tear, A bond as deep as sorrows, a stream......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, i love you, lost
Form: Rhyme
The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story
...The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story, But a series of humiliations of the false self, like a dance of the eclipses. It's a time of change, a network of somber moments and dazzli......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dazzling Sunrise, Come Quickly
...If this increasing darkness conveys a fear not chided, as ghostly shadows conspicuously confer mystery: do I hide or firmly resist being threatened by their miserable aspect of susceptibility? ......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, anxiety, dream, emotions, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When silence speaks
... Somber clouds form - rain spits.  His mother clenches freshly laid soil, screaming his name. Three crows glare. His daughters, shivering, hold each other, their gaunt eyes, still sore from shoc......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, death, suicide,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Departure Or The Loss Of A Darling Spouse
...It's heartrending to lose a spouse A very special woman who shares the house With your body, your heart and your soul It's very hard to feel losing your whole Your being, everything you have It'......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, anxiety, betrayal, crush, death
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member codependency
... light … and dark - shadow and bright are diametrically opposed and intricately interdependent we must learn to not fear the dark for it holds the same delight, the same color the same purp......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, analogy, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Greyling Sallow Place
...Gloomy dismal, and forlorn... that's how this day was borne in a Greyling sallow place where death doth reign without a face. In a boneyard of decaying flesh, one fresh abyss was dug to th......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, sad, silence,
Form: Free verse
Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads
...Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads, The echo of a twilight stifles discreetly on the plain bound for eternal crossing; Floating, floating over the velvet of d......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening beads its somber pearls
...Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening beads its somber pearls, An echo of twilight suffocates discreetly across the plain towards eternal passing; It floats, it floats over the velvet bl......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the days that gradually thin, sprinkled with the last strands of sand
...In the days that gradually thin, sprinkled with the last strands of sand, Evening descends upon my old and warm soul, Bony and stiff fingers, yearning for the warmth of the waning summer, As the a......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
LILY
...In a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep, Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep. With every creak of the floorboards at night, She'd hold her breath, gripped by fright. Mr. J......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, anger, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Metaphors written in psychedelic ink
... When words like seeds remain uncultivated, in somber silence the poet within me dies. In the misery of my perishing poetic oasis, petal like poems refuse to infuse idealistic pigments. But with......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moodiness
...shadows out of sorts wicked egos somber crows on the wire nature’s conductors connived brouhaha......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, anxiety, confusion, nature, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unfounded Hatred Toward a Young Stranger
...The subway station heaves with muffled noise, The shuffle of countless feet against the grime, I am aware of unfounded disdain, Coursing between strangers in the city's bowels. The ancient fluo......Read the rest...
Categories: somber, discrimination, hate, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse

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