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Tragedy Poems - Poems about Tragedy

Tragedy Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tragedy to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for tragedy.
FAMILY TRAGEDY
...FAMILY TRAGEDY Another tragedy started A lot of our family members have departed Next day for some of us life will remain the same And some of us will show little pain While some of our family......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, anger, death, family, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Empty Room
... Years delivered my mind, from the shadows left behind, Darkest calamity, sucking me into the tragedy, Feeling less like the dream I chased, like the darkness of disgrace. Soundless images ro......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, baby, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The tragedy of our times is not the tragedy of reason, but the triumph of reason
...The tragedy of our times is not the tragedy of reason, but the triumph of reason, A cold triumph, cloaked in mantles of pure logic, That suffocates the whispers of hearts, lost in the echo of steri......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A STORY ABOUT HAPPINESS AND LOVE
... This is a story about happiness that began 60 years ago. Keep in mind that even a story of happiness has it’s share of sadness, tears and woe. She was working at a diner…when he saw her and was......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, happiness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Words of Comfort
...What can I do to assuage your grief How fruitless my words must seem to be But still I pray you find some relief From the shadow only you can see A tragedy like this is a sin It's i......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme



The Reign
...A coat was laid upon the shoulders potential threats firmly at bay arms that held the precious mould are protecting those who chose to pray a bridge to cross a sea of secrets as towers leaned ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, betrayal, courage, poetry, power,
Form: Rhyme
The Lone Lover of Mine
...Venting thoughtlessly by your side all over once more Bending over backwards just to simply open up and soar Again, the line between us has been crossed far too many times The lone lover of mine d......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, beautiful, endurance, muse,
Form: Lyric
Parable paired in a pairing unit, you knead--- A Translation of Nirmalendu Goon
... You and your pliant touch lit me up, there my diva, morn. After the shower, your wet hair and your braid, in trying untangling Humble effort, down to earth I rush to thee, my open palm , water......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, absence, january,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Making The hardest Choice
...Some girls can't sleep, they fight over me with insanity it's the insomnia that won't let dream; it has taken away all the happiness and serenity! Everywhere I go there's a good possibility tha......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, anxiety, beautiful, desire, fear,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Under leaden skies where shadows gather
...Under leaden skies where shadows gather, We look back at the great tragedy of the ages, Since the Enlightenment, we admire the shattered dreams, Where optimists, as architects of false hopes, Hav......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Demeritocracy
... Sadly, everyone agrees South Africans will reelect the ANC No matter that it's a tragedy ~ it’s all about (the) race you see ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, africa, history, leadership, race,
Form: Couplet
The Irony Of Life
...Things mostly happen in opposite, It often takes noise, to appreciate silence, Pains and heartbreak to understand love, Absence to value presence... And sadness is require to know what happiness ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, africa, life, loneliness, time,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member One Faithful heart, One Unfaithful Heart
...How different we are now to have one faithful heart and one unfaithful heart; where's that bright glow? How much sadness we give to each other, instead of being unfair; distrust, rage and di......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, allusion, betrayal, desire, destiny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Monoku three in war
...monoku 4 none dance in rainshowers where tears flood the streets......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, dance, humanity, psychological, rain,
Form: Monoku
Perfect Strangers
...Perfect strangers, we were once Waiting for time to take the chance For destiny to make our mark Where our hearts can make a spark I didn't know you, you knew me not We didn't care to tak......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

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