Sad Elegy Poems
These Sad Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Sad. These are the best examples of Elegy Sad poems written by international poets.
Laughter in the ShadowsIn chambers filled with laughter, light, and carefree sound,
A discordant echo hangs, heavy and unbound.
A specter in the corner, draped in deep shadows,
A chilling truth...
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Categories:
anxiety, conflict, death, feelings,
Love Letter of SummerBy Cherbo Geeplay
Summer is yet to come and may
never come. She's stirring in an
August noon, sitting on the long
plateaus of these fields so far
...
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Categories:
appreciation, black african american,
No Time to Say GoodbyeShe slowly began to slip away,
Then suddenly she was gone.
At 1:00 am she could not stay
And died hours before dawn.
She died too fast...
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Categories:
death, lost love, wife,
Elegy to a promised landIn the quiet twilight, we gather here today,
To honor my dad, remember him, and pray.
From the promised land, he flew with...
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Categories:
america, culture, dad, father,
Left Behind“How exactly, my love, am I to die well?”
The question croaked - a ghostly whisper;
from her lingering mouth
of rotten teeth and wretched lips;
broken by...
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Categories:
death, grief, longing, loss,
Matthew Shepard Of WyomingTwenty-one years old,
or should I say young,
with the fair coloring and
grace of a trumpeting swan.
Youth of intellect and
a goodness.
He attended an LGBTQ+ meeting
on the campus...
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Categories:
6th grade, 7th grade,
Our Nile
"Do not stand by my grave and weep", they said.
Here's something she would have said instead.
"Hey, smile, all of your smiles are beautiful."
Hers was more...
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Categories:
elegy, angel, cry, extended metaphor,
Elegy To the Uyghur KhaganateO Glorious and Wise Empire of the East
Slaughtered by cold winter’s wrath and the azure dragon
For this world had no place to lay...
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Categories:
goodbye, history, hope, memorial,
Sad Man's LullabyAs I've once have seen, tears fall down the face,
Of a lonely treasured man,
I meet realities with him through the swallow of the lament river,
Swarming...
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Categories:
feelings, lost love, song,
The Silence of Yesterdayfor abunic sheriff – a friend who battled sickle cell.
yesterday the bones in my friend’s body wrote me a note of grief saying that they...
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Categories:
death, deep, for him,
The Sad Skythe sky is blue
broken hearts need glue,
don't make me change places baby,
just come through.
I don't wanna be ur angel Darling,
the devil inside me isn't deranged,
once...
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Categories:
9th grade, absence, anti
We MournEach delicious breath,
Every cooling drink.
I salute your passing.
Temperatures we enjoyed,
your breezes stroked my skin,
sunlight played softly,
green fields waved salutations.
I recognize your demise.
Unfiltered sunlight on my...
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Categories:
angst, appreciation, beauty, death,
The Bewail CityThe Bewail city
Ragged into pieces of pain
Each piece tormenting a certain taxpayer
Not even a solitary taxpayer skimped on
Oh the city of bewail!
Walloping at taxpayers
With...
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Categories:
africa, betrayal, corruption, poetry,
Elegy For a Garden GnomeThere once was a gnome named Jerome
Who made a herb garden his home.
One day as he frolicked,
He slipped and fell on some garlic
And was instantly...
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Categories:
elegy, farewell, for him, humor,
AmosHow utterly shocking it was
To see his smile fading like a flower
Withering in summer's hot sun,
He who with his ‘Good Morn' would...
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Categories:
death of a friend,