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Sorrow Poems | Examples of Sorrow Poetry

A Statement May Be a Question
He 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 Netanyahu
Benjamin 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



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Categories: sorrow, joy, life, pain, rainbow,
Form: Verse
Yearning Into Reverie
On dark, cold soil, atop the soaring green turf, lay cold, rusty, nostalgic houses. The path that led to them was faded and shallow, with the feeling it could cave in at any moment. Scattered along that path were derelict vehicles from different eras each one different heaps of life. Fog filled the houses. It filled the cars too, like a raging campfire, too sinister to be put out. And yet here...

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Categories: sorrow, childhood, depression, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
The beginning or The end?
The wind stood still, the stars held breath, Two voices rose in life and death. One whispered start, one thundered close, Each pulled the soul where no one knows. Beginning sang with morning light: "Come rise with me, embrace the fight. Your dreams are seeds; they’ve just been sown— Why fear the path you’ve never known?" End replied in velvet tone: "But peace is...

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Categories: inspirational, judgement, sorrow, truth,
Form: Narrative



An Elegy on Death-3
AN ELEGY ON DEATH -3 Bow like rainbow it gave While I want to it near, I want to it heart embrace While even cann't give me own fear. Smile a lot I do in mask While ,the last it true when? It's I think very difficult task, Hide with pain regression then. The small bonds of Psaltery Leave with the worst condition, When they again...

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Categories: sorrow, cry, death, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Elegy
Drowning in Sorrow
I’m so tired of spendin’ nights alone The test of time has left me like a stone Drinkin’ time—I feel it in my bones Feel so numb, I can’t pick up the phone Drownin’ in sorrow, can’t find my way Lost in the darkness, day after day Tears fill my eyes as I silently pray For a glimmer of hope to guide...

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Categories: sorrow, introspection,
Form: Ballad
The Ballad of Alexander Wood
Last night I dreamt of a roadside stop— an ice cream truck near a rusted shop. Its engine was spent, its music was low, and something inside told me I should l go. I stepped through the door because I could, and met a man by the name of Alexander Wood. He wore a bowtie and a crooked smile, a paper hat,...

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Categories: sorrow, analogy, character, depression, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Prisoner of the mind
In shadows deep where chaos grips my heart, A whispered cry is heard from the darkened cells A child once laughing beneath a sunlit sky, Now lost in the darkness of despair. Fear crawls like a serpent in the night, its scales revealing the demons I bear I drown in thoughts that bind me to...

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Categories: sorrow, anger, childhood, depression, lost,
Form: Free verse
Dearest Reader
Dearest reader, I have many secrets But I wont tell you now, I'll wait till you're older Heavens know I have many regrets But I wont tell you now, please wait till I'm bolder There are many things about me you dont know yet But I wont tell you niw as you rhetorically cry on my shoulder There is a version...

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Categories: sorrow, beauty, sad love, self,
Form: Rhyme
The Crown of Silence: A Lament for King Charles III
You wear a crown forged in centuries of silence, Not of gold, but of tears—each gem a wound, Each jewel a stolen breath from lands unnamed. The sun never set on your empire, Charles, But neither did its shadow. At seventy-three, you ascend a throne Built on the backs of broken nations. Malawi mourns not your reign, but its own hunger. India remembers...

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Categories: sorrow, abuse, betrayal, history, sin,
Form: Free verse
Not Her Fault
"It was your dress," they replied Was it? The ripped fabric cried The 5-year-old's laughter silenced that day Couldn't even scream, "I'm just a child," and ran away "It was your shorts," they claimed Was it? The torn seams proclaimed The 10-year-old's dreams shattered, flamed Couldn't even cry, "I'm just a girl," with shame "It was your clothes," they blamed Was it? The cloth...

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Categories: 12th grade, sorrow, storm,
Form: Free verse
The Man Who Carried the Light
I walked that road when crisis struck— voices blurred, strangers recoiled, and help summoned cold authority. Then a kind man appeared— heart vast as hope’s horizon— he paused his world to meet mine, ran through traffic, time bending to his kindness. In less than an hour, my turmoil bowed to a gentleness I thought lost. Across the miles, a penny’s cost multiplies—mockery, bullying, endless arguments shaded...

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Categories: sorrow, hope, humanity, inspiration, life,
Form: Free verse
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Amid the fire of twilight sun I wish I knew my way horizon’s char and moonlight’s shun has ashed my hope I pray for dark cloud constellation to free a steed for me to flee gunshot streets for primrose to steal my jaundice and burn the itch in roadside stars for me to follow scent and sight and find forsaken...

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Categories: sorrow, addiction, conflict, drug, hope,
Form: Verse
No life, No death
Oh death The fear of countless souls I adore your kiss I need you close When will we meet? When shall you come? It's too long a wait Please come tonight I don't know you I know life is a tsunami Perhaps you can rescue me Where shall we meet? Oh life The lover of the lifeless I've honored your presence I gave you my all Why...

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Categories: sorrow, confusion, grief, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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