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JimJim
by Lanier Thomas
I tried to tell you, but you refused to hear.
As soon as I returned home from the Army
You took me straight to your drug dealer’s abode.
That was more than my friendship could ever...
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Categories:
death, drug, grief, sorrow,
Form: Ottava rima
Sleep When Im AwakeSometimes the dreams are better than being awake, yet even when im sleep, from you I never get a break.
At least in my dreams I could believe it's true knowing damn well this isn't you...
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Categories:
sorrow, absence, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
sorrow, 2nd grade, africa, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
The Bio Wars: Pain InfectiousPerpetual pain palliated by loving hands
ever lingering under bandaged wounds;
fetted rot tucked under perfumed blanket.
Covered is the massing doubt, ever growing,
Smothered; thoughts transient as dreams.
To hide quaking mask of broken memory.
Running. Inevitable is the spreading.
Infectious...
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Categories:
sorrow, allusion, cancer, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Shrinking WorldSafety, comfort, food and offspring
Is that all they need ? Could be!
Doggies bark, the birdies sing
Feeling happy, they can’t see
Anything that spreads disturbance
Evil species of wrong kinds
Cause it would disrupt concordance
In well balanced little...
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Categories:
sorrow, world,
Form: Rhyme
Federally Directed Education
Categories:
sorrow, corruption, education, evil, leadership,
Form: Free verse
WrathI looked straight into Sun's eyes
and challenged her with great audacity
to dry the lakes in my eyes.
I'll let her stab my face
again and again and again
until I lose feeling.
Her flame is jealous
of my blazing...
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Categories:
anger, emotions, feelings, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Tearful
“The pining brine streams flowing from the
weeping eyes seek the course to the sea
of serenity”– Quote by poet
The cloud convoy of despair drifts slow
in the seamless smoky sky of sorrow,
as the storm...
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Categories:
analogy, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Cling OnThose wide mahogany eyes,
I cannot help but cling to,
like goosegrass clings on,
too dear, may I hang out here?
just for a little while longer,
you know it’s freezing outside,
and I already seem to miss,
the crescent...
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Categories:
sorrow, desire, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Oh sadness
Categories:
sorrow,
Form: Senryu
No MatterNo matter how you live,
No matter how good you are,
You can just be sure the next mistake is not to far.
I stumble and I fall,
I stagger and I crawl,
And although my eyes were open,
Thet might...
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Categories:
sorrow, blue, emotions, i love
Form: Rhyme
Locked in LoveWalls confine feelings, not people.
They lock them into buildings,
make them face the walls and
reconsider, rethink.
That’s the love locked within us.
Where’s the key?
This is not what I meant by closure.
...
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Categories:
sorrow, break up, jealousy, longing,
Form: Free verse
An Unwritten LifeThe tragedy of an unwritten life
That no quill of scribe can unveil
Though seed was sown stands yet unknown
With no legacy to foretell
Plagued by a comedy of errors
A heart and soul that seeks mending
No dramatic page...
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Categories:
life, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
On A Bad Day
Journey Journal Page
ON A BAD DAY
By Leon Enriquez
To know the way
True purpose seek
As truth now plays
When vision peaks
Pique your own think
In fruitage ripe
The right verge brink
Hides in sad gripe
~~~~~~~~~
When people see you
In a bad light
Unleash...
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Categories:
angst, loss, sorrow,
Form: Quatrain
The Silent WidowHere sits the widow silent and pale, from the heart of darkness her sorrows hail. Mournful eyes, shattered thoughts, bloodless veins and soundless calls.
With her broken heart her mind would plea, her eyes are...
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Categories:
sorrow, confusion, grief, hurt, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Sorrow Poems
Definition | What is Sorrow in Poetry?
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