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Don't Say Boo
Categories:
baseball, future, song, sorrow,
Form: Lyric
When Silence SpeaksThe devil sleeps in the hearts of men,
When silence speaks no need of pen,
Like a puppet master pulling strings,
Empathy dangling as the devil sings.
Humanity resides in dreams despair,
Hope futile against the growing swell,
Frothing, the raging...
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Categories:
mirror, pain, silence, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart's DecreeI'm stealing a few moments from Father Time
to pen my thoughts on parchment pages.
I write of mirth we shared, sweet and sublime,
capturing it in recorded history of us for the ages.
As twilight broaches night, I...
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Categories:
farewell, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Always YouI dreamt of you again last night.
You spoke a foreign language,
and you did not know your name.
But I knew it was you because your beauty is unmistakable.
You spoke with someone else's voice,
and you...
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Categories:
sorrow, bereavement, betrayal, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
OblivionIn the depths of her despair, she's confined,
A solitary figure, lost in her mind,
Engulfed by shadows, no end in sight,
She battles demons in the darkest night.
Her thoughts, like poison, eat away,
Condemning her to an endless...
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Categories:
sorrow, conflict, dark, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
IN HER EYES
He believes he first fell in love with her eyes…they are so revealing…
they’ve always told her story…..expressed how she was feeling.
Through all their years together he is no longer surprised
how easily he can read her…when...
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Categories:
love, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
All Turns Silent in the Meadows
It was the strangest thing I saw that day
A grassy grove and a man shouting mad
I didn't even know what to say
His face dragged down by his eye bags
His feet slept on the dirt, twigs...
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Categories:
sorrow, cry, death, loss, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Father's Memorial dayThe world has indeed been forgetting me
Forgetting me cruelly
As waste that neither grow nor breathe
It is a fermentation of anger and despair
As Despairing as it struggles with anger
At the unknowns in dark...
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Categories:
sorrow, appreciation, blessing, father, father
Form: Free verse
Why Were Tears InventedWhy were tears invented
Why does pain invite their flow
Why must someone feel so hurt
...
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Categories:
anxiety, cry, sad, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Demons
My entire life I've been drowning in a darkness
As a little girl I begged to be loved: Nothing more nothing less
I kept telling myself it will be better when I am grown
But those demons...
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Categories:
sorrow, dark, heartbroken, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
My Laughs Are Filled With Buckets of RainFilled my soul with aching
to keep my brain from faking
its joy.
Torn hearts asunder, I once was filled with wonder
but now I dread the thunder and
my laughs are filled with buckets...
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Categories:
anxiety, deep, poetry, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the branchesYou'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by me
Wrapped in a blanket of roots and earth
A pillow...
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Categories:
sorrow, death, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse
When life is unfair"Fall not into despair but into God."
Oliver Clement
When life is unfair
and troubles seize,
fall not into despair
but on your knees.
When...
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Categories:
sorrow, care, christian, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme
EmptinessYou gripped my hips, not my heart
you stoked the fire on my lips, sent me sprawling through an abyss
and left my body tangled in sweat drenched sheets
alone.
you wove a wrathful web of wantonness, slid...
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Categories:
sorrow, dark, deep, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Feeling sorry for themThinking how others have cause
to be sadder than I
is enough reason to let
myself have a good cry
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Categories:
sorrow, care, cry, feelings, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Specific Types of Sorrow Poems
Definition | What is Sorrow in Poetry?
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