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Pain Sorrow Poems

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


Alone
Hand gets dealt, do I already fold?
Playing this game had gotten old
Wanting someone to hold
Trying to turn ashes to gold

No strength left to fight it
Pieces...

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© Onyx Perth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, deep, sorrow,



Ota Benga
They took him—
not for war,
not for crime,
but for curiosity.
A boy from Congo,
where rivers hum with memory,
and the trees know your name.

Ota Benga—
smile full of sun,
soul...

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Categories: sorrow, crazy, evil, hate, innocence,

Eyes Through Depressed Lenses
Depression,
It’s a silent killer.
It’s like being stabbed in the back,
But it’s Invisible.
The pain is sharp, sure,
And your screaming at the top of your lungs,
However to...

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Categories: sorrow, anxiety, cry, deep, depression,

Thirteen
I 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...

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Categories: sorrow,

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...

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Categories: sorrow, anger, confusion, dark, depression,



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: angst, pain, sorrow,

Premium Member Kaleidoscopic Life

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Categories: sorrow, joy, life, pain, rainbow,

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...

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Categories: inspirational, judgement, sorrow, truth,

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...

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© Eryn Morne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrow, analogy, character, depression, dream,

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,...

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Categories: sorrow, anger, childhood, depression, lost,

Safe and Sound
(To be read in the rhythm of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen / Rufus Wainwright)

I know I said I’d be better by now
But I wander through...

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© Elle Arson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrow, dark, hurt, relationship, sad,

A Seat Taken, A Spirit Kept
O classroom once alive with gentle voices,
Where morning greetings bloomed so bright and clear,
I leave you now—stripped of certain choices,
Unheard, unseen, dismissed through quiet fear.

The...

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Categories: sorrow, education, grief,

Premium Member The Shape Of Water-Edited
July 2, 2025
Contest : Pick A Pensee 2
Sponsor : Nette Onclaud


tear drops
drizzle of pain
configure mind’s upwelled brine
silent seep in desolate stream
psychic shape of sorrow



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Categories: analogy, sorrow,

Premium Member Gone Through Heaven's Gate
The ghostly night was filled with gloom
As from your grave we walked away.
Grief-stricken, there beside your tomb;
Through Heaven's gate you've gone.

A friend you were until...

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Categories: sorrow, death of a friend,

Premium Member Bedside Thoughts
I watch as she sleeps,
the gentle rise and fall of her chest
making sure her breathing is rhythmic

Thoughts take me back years ago
when we were playmates...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrow,


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