Get Your Premium Membership

Loneliness Poems | Examples of Loneliness Poetry

Loneliness Poems - Examples of all types of loneliness poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for loneliness.
Premium Member Crew Cut
Reviewing the clippings of his mountain climbs like watching a flick solo for the umpteenth time The longer he lingered, the tireder he grew ~...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, fun, loneliness, together,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Rescue of innocence
you have draped your innocence in the warmth of muslin your dark eyes speak of your loneliness in this strange land your lips whisper within yourself your desires when they should be screaming out loud for justice do not...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, anti bullying, child abuse,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Senior
Sitting all alone, sipping tea, munching a scone; elderly woman in a quiet coffeehouse looking for conversation. "That was delicious", she says to the young server seemingly busy. She tries to make eye contact; the young one averts her gaze. It's like that most days... staring...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Coming Home
Somewhere, long ago, I found myself in this world. Since then, I've been here and there, or in corners, curled. I feel that I'm an intruder. I don't belong. Nothing can be fathomed. It's...Read the rest...
Categories: death, home, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evening Dies
Dusk birds chirping before sleep the sun has run away stealing all that I love the clouds float past they have stories too that all become faded memories incompetent fools I wish I were a painter this image I have expressed would take me forever then...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, loneliness, love, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Open doors
Cut our palms and joined us at the seams Bleeding just to bleed but I felt seen And I still have the scar left to this day You dulled the knife so I’d feel extra pain I remember...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, change, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
The Empty Room
Eight minutes in, dream-debut decomposing, marred in mad mud. Barely begun, his brutish block, a tackle that tore through time, trailed by the walk of shame. Elation fades, deflation reigns, suspended in solitude, exiled in emptiness. The still dressing room droning. He sits...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emptiness
Intrinsic intuition tunneled through time, drives incessant the central cognitive impulses, surges with the sensuous waves of enlivening enlightenment, through the vacuity of amorphous perception. The rhythm of time pulsates relentless in the inner secluded space infinite, the...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member brief time
brief time did our brief time together continue in your heart did it go beyond time lost and enter into the void as a reality can you now reach out and touch it bring it back as though it...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Red Velvet Lust
A quarter cup of melted butter Slips quietly into the bowl. Minuscule amounts speckled my lips As I scatter in a mouthful of sugar. Not the first or last time, I will create this dish. I bring out packages Of...Read the rest...
Categories: faith, grief, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Miss Someone
It's not so easy to miss someone you have loved or cared about: I have loved you in ways that can't be described; I have held you in times that are sad to keep in mind: but dreams are no longer...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, allusion, conflict, dream, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Fragile
The day i lost the most fragile string on my guitar I knew i was gonna lose, in my heart But i kept moving forward thinking i won't cope Because i didn't wanna lose in fear just for...Read the rest...
Categories: art, blue, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member There Is An Angel Who Sits Upon My Shoulder Who Goes By The Name Of Death
There is an angel who sits upon my shoulder who goes by the name of Death, And though I cannot always see him, upon my neck I can always feel his breath As he whispers to me...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, hope, inspiration, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Has Only Just Begun
If you’re only a teen, you may carry the weight, Of a past you abhor and a present you hate, You may live in your room, like a temple of doom, But the rest of your day is...Read the rest...
Categories: christian, inspirational, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Basis
Sky's lefts bygone when there's not enough clouds For her every color's soul to change in— A motionless mime with no body shroud For singe of sun, pleasure of moon, on skin; No silver lines to join in morning...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, introspection, loneliness, longing,
Form: Ottava rima

Specific Types of Loneliness Poems

Definition | What is Loneliness in Poetry?


Book: Reflection on the Important Things