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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.
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
Under twilight skies, veiled in melancholic shadows and silent steps
...Under twilight skies, veiled in melancholic shadows and silent steps, The silent tragedy of creative destinies unfolds, For only from the sacred depths of each unique soul Can new, mysterious mean......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich No don (except me) doth trumpet within the aborted barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm, I annexed courtesy manifest destiny, which peoples now in......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Thespians Tragedy :Love's Silent Stage
...Today, upon this stage, an actress must Perform a tale of love and woe. Many roles in past, she played and executed well But in the hushed embrace of theater's din light The actress is tasked w......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, 12th grade, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Mutilation
...Nobody ever ask them how they feel, they are always looking for something’s to satisfy their needs; they questioned everything that they do and toss the evidence out the door when the defense kept......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, america, animal, appreciation, birth,
Form: Narrative
Crimson Bouquet
...In spectral glow moon's pallor, country home towered ominously, fortress bearing silent the tragedy, ensnared within its stone. Her footfalls echoed in the hollow foyer, mournful dirge in the c......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, dark, gothic, grief, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Meaning of Life
...The Meaning of Life There is a Simple Tragedy To Everything. And a Beautiful Sadness to It All. That's How Blissful Ignorance Can Be. A Brush Stroke, A Pixel, An Emission......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, life,
Form: Free verse
the tribe
...The lost tribe Holocaust, the ongoing tragedy this time, it is the Palestinians who are victims from a tribe that has learned that if one has  to survive, they must be ty, able to tell lies an......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Happy Valley
... It was a strange and unexpected experience. Suddenly, I found myself in a place called Happy Valley. A man was on a park bench gazing upon the trees as if listening to a particular bird call. ......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, humanity, hyperbole, myth, rights,
Form: I do not know?
Regret Me
...You will regret me I said waveringly not realizing the seriousness of the words just spilt out over my tired lips you will regret not treating me the way you treat other girls for is my worth com......Read the rest...
Categories: tragedy, analogy, emotions, heartbroken, lost
Form: Free verse

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