Sympathy Poems | Examples of Sympathy Poetry

Birdy

As beautiful as it seems, it does not want to fly away and be free, The wind sings a serenade to sway you with glee. Leave the fortress where you have imprisoned your kind, Blinding darkness fills with the echoes of wind rushing through the leaves of what you call the dreamland.

You don't belong in

Hearts in Heaven Bangladesh's Cry: A Linking Pin Sonnet

Hearts in Heaven Bangladesh's Cry: A Linking Pin Sonnet 

The sky held screams—screams torn through burning blue,
Blue smoke descended where small footsteps grew.
Grew bright young dreams in uniforms so white,
White pages turned with innocence and light.

Light left the room when iron wings struck ground,
Ground broke in silence, swallowing every sound.
Sound echoed loud through broken bricks

Help

At the slightest cry, we rush to give,  
But what of those whose pain won’t live  
In vocal words or audible plea?  
Will you help the one who hides silently?

Signs appear—subtle, yet clear—  
Yet they resist, refuse to hear.  
Why deny the aid they need?  
What binds the heart

In Three Winds They Rise A Trilogy Poem in Tribute to the Souls of Flight 17 - June 2025!

The “Mayday” radio call message was the final voice from Air India 171 flight bound for London seconds before it crashed creating an eternal memorial for 241 gracious beings, with one survivor. My heartfelt sympathy and condolences to every family member, friend, and associate of those who made their ascent into the heavenly realms. May

We Wear The Mask

We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar



After poem by Olabosoye Wemimo Olaoluwa 


Love of our land's labour should make us proud;
The efforts, time, and energy put through...
Well enough to place our pride clear as vowed.

But we wear the mask of pain we don't plowed,
When slavery is to labourers in blue...
Love of our land's labour

Children who shriek

The hospital machine beeps,
My knees weak, the walls are bleak.
I'm bitting my cheek whilst the ward doors creak
I can hear the children shriek, they look weak through a sneak peak.

Explanations are oblique,
These children will be me in a week.
There's critique of technique for hell week;
which is not for the weak.
Streaks of blood, dizzy from drugs
Staring

Wilderness

Wilderness 

Moonlight stretches into the clearing,
intangible ...but offering comfort.
She is dying now, pining to be rescued,
her breathing jagged, her endurance spent;
the bullet had lanced her stomach 
therefore prolonging agony.

Behind her lies a zick-zacked trail
of red, splattered death, her own.
She had been born a lone wolf
but now seeks release in moonlight's arms.
A terminal breath, a final

Sympathies

Forget about it
Don’t think about it
It’s not important 
Put it out of your mind

Things I have been told

Advice for the lovelorn
The bereaved
The broken hearted
The lonely

Your love has gone away forever
They have left you behind
They have stopped you in your tracks 

Well meaning friends
Want you to forget them
Get on with your life

But the hole in your

The hypocrisy of democracy

They called it progress
But the last time I checked
Progress can't exist without justice
Especially when we still can't breathe even in the afterlife
But we will always scream
No justice, no peace
We can't be silenced
Even if we have to use violence

You see the politicians using our graves
To boost their campaigns
'Forgetting' to mention our names
Then Simultaneously putting the blame
On

Venom of ignorance

There was a man I knew—
 bitten by ignorance’s venom.
All his life, he groped through shadows,
  searching for cures in the dark—
   but he found none,
   until he bit the dust.

One day, while spring still painted the world,
 his sun just beginning to rise,
   and the stream sparkled

Growing old

Why is Old Age so Lonely? Why is it such a bore?
Why because you're getting Old no-one wants you anymore
 As a Mother and a Wife you give your very best,
Perhaps it's just because they think you need a rest. 
Once children ran riot in your home,
Now you'll be really lucky if they pick up

Silent screams of abandon

You came into my life~
just before the ink dried...
in my husband's condolences register.
You knew I was grieving, 
vulnerable, 
trying to hold my children’s lives together with threads.

You listened to my story—
the doubled rent, 
the school fees...
I wouldn’t be able to pay—
and you acted like you cared.
You said our pain was your pain, 
that you couldn’t

Bad Bad Bad Bad Sympathy

Bad Bad Bad Bad Sympathy

I Don't Know What
Periods Are Like
But My Hemorrhoids
Are Really Bad Today!

 TMI

No No No No No No No No No...

Don't Post This Don't Post This
Don't Post This Don't Post This

PLEASE! Don't Post This!

 Try N' Stop Me.

 (I'm Gonna Get It.)

See?

I Told You: 5 Posts A Day.

Now, You've Wasted That.

 Uhn-uhhhhhhh.................

unsavoured

i fought it, once.
i built whole walls out of promises,
out of other people’s hands,
out of mornings that almost felt real.

but you’re here now,
and i am tired.

tired of pretending
you aren’t the ruin i want.
tired of pretending
i can be anything else.

she deserves better.
he deserves better.
i am not better.
neither are you.

you say hello,
and it feels like the end
and

Just waiting for your call, A Stevie Wonder style ICU Groove

In this white-washed room, time moves slow, 
 Monitors beepin’ soft and low, 
 I got tubes and dreams, but one thing’s clear— 
 The only medicine I need is your voice in my ear. 

 Nurses come and go like the wind through the door, 
 But I’m anchored in a hope I can’t

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