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Sorrow Poems | Examples of Sorrow Poetry

Sorrow Poems - Examples of all types of sorrow 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 sorrow.
Premium Member Don't Say Boo
~ To the tune of 'Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes ~ ...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, future, song, sorrow,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member When Silence Speaks
The 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...Read the rest...
Categories: mirror, pain, silence, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Heart's Decree
I'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...Read the rest...
Categories: farewell, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Always You
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, bereavement, betrayal, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Oblivion
In 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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, conflict, dark, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, cry, death, loss, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Father's Memorial day
The 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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, appreciation, blessing, father, father
Form: Free verse
Why Were Tears Invented
Why were tears invented Why does pain invite their flow Why must someone feel so hurt ...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, dark, heartbroken, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
My Laughs Are Filled With Buckets of Rain
Filled 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, deep, poetry, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath the branches
You'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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, care, christian, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Emptiness
You 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...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, dark, deep, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feeling sorry for them
Thinking how others have cause to be sadder than I is enough reason to let myself have a good cry ...Read the rest...
Categories: sorrow, care, cry, feelings, friendship,
Form: Quatrain

Specific Types of Sorrow Poems

Definition | What is Sorrow in Poetry?


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