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Home Sorrow Poems

These Home Sorrow poems are examples of Sorrow poems about Home. These are the best examples of Sorrow Home poems written by international poets.


Nocturn of the Alone
Drifting 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...

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Categories: sorrow, angst, deep, desire, hurt,



Her departing words
As she awaited for her head to pass through the guillotine, She said to the young girl who was standing in front of her
Who was...

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Categories: sorrow, death, emotions, farewell, fear,

Jim
Jim
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...

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Categories: death, drug, grief, sorrow,

Premium Member Bygones

Imprisoned by the way things are,
Breakfast, coffee and cream,
Eggs with toast
Sometimes it’s burnt, branded
By the decades old toaster – former things,
We can’t replace,
Because this one...

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Categories: sorrow, grief, heartbroken,

Tomorrow, I Promise
Waiting; waiting; waiting…
in the dark of night.
Cotton in my pocket,
soon I’ll be alright.
Twisting in my fingers,
I don’t know what to do,
I think I best buy...

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Categories: sorrow, desire, drug, family, forgiveness,



Chinese translations Li Bai
Chinese translations Li Bai

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, who was also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by...

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Categories: sorrow, bird, farewell, goodbye, green,

Trading
Trading

When you are easy to flatter
you offer all on a silver platter
When desperation is your emotion
you will grasp at any false notion
Trading your self-respect

When you...

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Categories: sorrow, emotions, inspiration, perspective, poems,

I Used To Have
I used to have a reason 
to get up and fight for truth.
I used to have light in my eyes 
to know I’d be with...

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Categories: sad, sorrow,

Premium Member Colors of Grief

Arising in softest sapphire,
Shimmery as the night,
Inviting silence to release her,
Tears flowing, thick and sincere,
Breaking through melancholy,
Trembling with dark dread,
Erasing all the soul’s vivacity –
Erasing...

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Categories: sorrow, appreciation, christian, death, funeral,

Premium Member Project Eden
The crescent moons of the auburn sky
The acid rain clouds dance, purple, by

The air it stings as I respirate
A strange howling noise as the storms...

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Categories: sorrow, earth, science fiction, solitude,

Premium Member Hi Storm
In mania, the body unbinds itself.
The skeleton’s dense marrow becomes hollow,
an avian adjustment. It is accelerated evolution.
Fluttering and floating in a slew of thoughts
like nervous...

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Categories: sorrow, brother, drug, forgiveness, hope,

Soul of Sea Stars
"Like a shooting s t a r,
         plunging from lunar fields of lavenders,
  to touch the...

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Categories: sorrow, dark, death, deep, fantasy,

INGRATE
I feel so sad to be a child of my home 
It sounds ungrateful when moaning on a throne 
but I reallly am trapped in...

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Categories: sorrow, happiness, i am, identity,

Premium Member Land of no sorrow
I am what you see
I am just me
Student of life
Trying to avoid any strife
As I walk my way
No where do I wish to stay
Same thing...

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Categories: sorrow, beautiful, courage, freedom,

The Long wait
And he waited , she had promised to call when she returned home , he had no doubt that she would have,
And so he waited...

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Categories: dedication, feelings, relationship, sorrow,


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