Ode on MOurnThe monotonous-mourning morn
Live in little-litful way alone,
Where no white-whole the born
Noone show who she-scorn.
Creation crys out with curse
Newly bride burn in doubt,
Bone injured no see nurse
Then some one ask why not out.
Endure-enamouring poision
Fills in veins like blood-red,
Though the whole world gave caution
I chose that path to live in shade.
The vault of white stones went pale
Where...
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Categories:
sorrow,
Form: Ode
Those We loveThose we love don't go away,
they walk beside us everyday.
Their murmurs, soft, in tree leaf whisper
defrosts my heart that did grow crisper
with grief that stained inside and out
when I existed with my doubt
that vanished voices of my yesteryear
would come alive and stir the atmosphere.
Breezy hands, they touch my shoulder,
rustling lilac plumes and growing bolder—
as...
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Categories:
sorrow, grief, introspection, joy, loss,
Form: Rhyme
ThirteenI found her as a whispered line in an editorial
stuck on the silk folds of a silver jubilee
like regret.
She had bled once in a different continent
A red thread pulled taut at thirteen
Doctors sealed the loom forever.
I was thirteen too, still learning the
topography of my brown skin.
My hands trembled like birdcage doors
unsure whether to open or...
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Categories:
sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Not by My WillI'll let the sour sea make its kill,
dissolve my bones while I sit still.
Let salt stitch silence to my skin,
for I won't leave — not by my will....
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Categories:
dark, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
As False as SmilesManners are the party fancy —
Petit goldleaf on the melting pudding,
A sticking cream now on your fingers,
Immovable for hours.
Manners like a lady,
Her morning bonnet pinned,
Perching, tilting in the wind.
That flat earth, mountained at the dome,
With feather shores and flower groves,
Shiny plastics, false as those at home.
Nods and bobs and toothy smiles,
Inflections in...
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Categories:
sorrow, anxiety, depression, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Yet I Stand
Where do I stand
When presented with a choice
Transported by a full force
That lands me in a false chance
Yet, I stand.
Breaking the shackles
That held me in my ankles
So tight like a buckle
Wrapped in my knuckles
Yet, I stand.
What is given is a Token
The heart that bleeds is broken
The life that fades is taken
Certain thoughts can't be...
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Categories:
sorrow, anger, confusion, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
RESTLESSNESSMiddle of the night,
I woke up wide.
Staring at the ceiling,
I heard the rhythms of my breathing.
Fidgety, I was on the edge.
Did I forget some pledge?
Special day of someone I adore,
Or I missed some pressing chore.
Delving deep into my mind,
I got no answer, it was blind.
Yet the restlessness did not subside,
Till I saw the date...
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Categories:
sorrow, addiction, longing, love, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
Life after deathDeath strikes with its wicked grin,
Deep grief and sorrow it brings,
Flights to heaven then begin,
When our souls fly without wings,
Each saint bears a halo ring,
They reign there as queens and kings,
With Angels near a calm spring.
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Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
Date: 18th July, 2025...
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Categories:
sorrow, angel, death, flying, grief,
Form: Verse
When I Was AshWhen I was ash...
I knew wind more intimately than breath.
I knew what it meant...
To scatter without sorrow.
That is all I remember....
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Categories:
sorrow, emotions, fire, goodbye, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten SorrowLaughter hides in the strangest of places.
I laughed when she spoke, the sun's rays kissing her
Beautiful smiling, the lilt in her eyes
Betrayed promises of many tomorrows.
It's no secret that our life's been hard-- NO--
A betrayal of modest happiness.
And yet, I found joy. Laughter whilst walking,
Joyful moments of tender lovesickness.
I forgot...
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Categories:
sorrow, fun, joy, marriage,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Never say that she is deadWe will not say that she is dead.
We have never said that she is dead.
We will never say that she is dead.
We’ll say she’s in heaven
We will say she passed away
We tell the children she went to God’s house
And became an angel on the way.
We say she’s gone
We say she died
But none...
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Categories:
sorrow, death, funeral, goodbye, grandparents,
Form: Elegy
THE OTHERSIDEThere's always the otherside
of something so beautiful
Dunno why it finds me
Crashing like a storm
Drencing me with sorrow
Slamming me back to the place
I hardly belong
Pull me out
Bring me peace
It's too much chaos here
I cannot breathe...
...
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Categories:
sorrow, anxiety, grief,
Form: Free verse
In a Heartbroken State"We can choose either to remain heartbroken all the time or with resilience, come back to cheer, as true happiness primarily stems from inside and not through external factors alone. Our happiness is mostly dependent on our way of thinking and how we see life"..... By Poet
She heard the sound of pigeons overhead.
Looking up she...
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Categories:
angst, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
A Statement May Be a QuestionHe slipped away? Or did they take him?
Stranger things have happened, have they not?
Why do I ask so many questions of myself?
Or am I asking questions of him?
I could make statements.
He went off of his own accord.
This is one of his stranger happenings.
I have to ask so many questions.
So, this could be a question.
Or is...
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Categories:
anger, angst, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The End of an Era: A Letter to Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu,
you once stood as a symbol of Israel’s resolve,
but power gained through fear and manipulation
is a flame that burns its master first.
You rose through the ranks
on speeches of security and pride,
but history has already spoken—
the tears of Gaza will not be washed away by silence.
Every forty-five minutes, a child died,
and the world watched—
but the...
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Categories:
sorrow, conflict, god, history, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Sorrow Poems
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