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My Laughs Are Filled With Buckets of RainFilled my soul with aching
to keep my brain from faking
its joy.
Torn hearts asunder, I once was filled with wonder
but now I dread the thunder and
my laughs are filled with buckets...
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Categories:
anxiety, deep, poetry, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the branchesYou'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by me
Wrapped in a blanket of roots and earth
A pillow...
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Categories:
sorrow, death, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse
When life is unfair"Fall not into despair but into God."
Oliver Clement
When life is unfair
and troubles seize,
fall not into despair
but on your knees.
When...
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Categories:
sorrow, care, christian, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme
EmptinessYou gripped my hips, not my heart
you stoked the fire on my lips, sent me sprawling through an abyss
and left my body tangled in sweat drenched sheets
alone.
you wove a wrathful web of wantonness, slid...
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Categories:
sorrow, dark, deep, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Feeling sorry for themThinking how others have cause
to be sadder than I
is enough reason to let
myself have a good cry
...
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Categories:
sorrow, care, cry, feelings, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
DespondencyA lady in a Victorian dress,
Next to an old printing press.
Within a gloomy writing lair,
Falling down the abyss of despair.
I can see the tempest in her heart,
It’s like a wild museum of art.
She is a...
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Categories:
sorrow, anxiety, depression, sad, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
As a Raven Caws
Something dreadful do I see, reflected in her eyes.
Could be death she's seen in a horrid dream, or
perhaps the relapse of a wretched addiction
that's left her at the mercy of this raven's claws.
One whose...
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Categories:
sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Nocturn of the AloneDrifting in silence, no haven in sight,
Alone in the crowd, under the pale moonlight.
Whispers of home, now ghosts in the wind,
A solitary journey, with no beginning or end.
Love's sweet chorus, a forgotten song,
In its absence,...
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Categories:
sorrow, angst, deep, desire, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Great 8We started as 8 with the unique zest of life in our own way, but it was not to be for eternity for the first come in was the first to leave. This began for...
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Categories:
sorrow, bereavement, death, emotions, family,
Form: Ballad
Unbearable HeartbreakThe pain in my heart threatens to be my end,
I sought to show the 'me' that God did intend.
Yet, silenced I stand, to the skies, I relent,
"Your will, not mine," my whispered consent.
Hunger ignored, sleep's...
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Categories:
sorrow, break up, desire, fate,
Form: Free verse
ANOMIEWhen we were children,
we played games
Often scary...
Running, and hiding,
...
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Categories:
sorrow, angst, feelings, life, rude,
Form: Free verse
My Whole World Is GoneI have nightmares every night
It's so hard to find the light
In the darkness haunting me
It will never set me free
Years and years inside my head
I can't shake the words you said
Cutting me inside so deeply
Every...
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Categories:
sorrow, hurt, missing you, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Treacherous TearsTreacherous Tears
These tear tracks through make up
Give me away
Red rimmed eyes and rosy nose
Say, " I'm not okay"...
But if you see me like this
Try not to look too close
I'm concealing secrets
I'd...
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Categories:
emotions, sad, sorrow,
Form: Verse
NyctophobiaYour first to handle
If there is power outage
Is find a candle....
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Categories:
fear, love, sorrow, trust,
Form: Haiku
EpitaphI saw epitaph
Engrave says, "He died of love".
Pinch my heart to laugh.
...
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Categories:
sorrow, death, funny love, memorial,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Sorrow Poems
Definition | What is Sorrow in Poetry?
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