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Sorrowful Poems - Poems about Sorrowful

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Premium Member Voice of the Wind
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet, Through echoing forest and echoing street, With lutes in our hands ever singing we roam, All men are our kind......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, music, wind,
Form: Rhyme



In the fabric of night, poets craft their dreams
...In the fabric of night, poets craft their dreams, With the thin thread of the moon and fingers intertwined with falling stars. They seek perfection in the world's crevices, in the uncertainty of th......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love
..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." By Sophocles, Greek Poet Love, strongest emotion, feeling divine, When life becomes bitte......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Arduous ascent
...Almost there but not quite, stuporous effort fails, for unless we’re the light, our deluded heart wails, whence struck by ego’s blight. Almost there but not quite, we tend to oscillate, in t......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads
...Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads, The echo of a twilight stifles discreetly on the plain bound for eternal crossing; Floating, floating over the velvet of d......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Grim Embrace
...In the depths of her soul, she's yearning for touch, In a void of despair, where emotions are crushed. Once her fortress, her solace, her knight, Now distant, indifferent, cloaked in spite. He ......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, anger, depression, emotions, howl,
Form: Rhyme
Haunted by Your Ghost
...Each dawn, I wake up to the ghost of your voice, Your words I once cherished, now haunt my choice. For without your tender touch, the night stands so still, No comfort is found, as darkness brings......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, confusion, cry, goodbye, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry: Shadows Coming to Light
...Garnering complete elucidation within the untrammeled confines of several exceptional poetic lines most certainly deserves validation Does brevity confine poetic thought ......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member reflecting
...Sorrowful are we reflecting on our own lives falling short of God......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, god,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A well
...So few have ever understood me on a level well; so deep Even less have I let witness my tears as they seep They come forth in the darkness while others sleep; Thoughts of you can be so ela......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, devotion, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member To which image should we cling?
...Trailing clouds of glory do we come The magical moments of childhood When we felt at one with the universe Spinning dizzily with delight Or with more of horrible and awful That even to name is......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
SUNdrenched sorrowS
...Sundrenched sorrows Sundrenched worries of tomorrow’s Troublesome wind and rain Driving me and you insane I can’t be sane… Anxious as always It remains here to stay… Going through these days......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, angst, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
...Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed Hanging at t......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
RIP Junior Pope
...R.I.P JUNIOR POPE ~~~~~~~~~ In sombre silence & mournful melody, A threnody for one who passed on sadly, Who lost his life without a life jacket, Crashed without precaution on a speedboat.4 ......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, 1st grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Requiem for a Lonely Woman
...In the outskirts, where whispers weave through the wind, there stands a farmhouse, its timbers groaning with secrets, a silhouette etched against the horizon’s fading light. Once, it was alive, ......Read the rest...
Categories: sorrowful, house, loneliness, woman,
Form: Free verse

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