Sad Free Verse Poems

Pray for me, brother;  
There are words stuck behind my tongue  
That I have carried in my heart,  
For life can tire...

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Suffering

Sad leaf in the air, fly on, far
Heart is alone, sad, not yours

Open heart. Do. Can’t. Run!
Close. Beating. Your field

The heart. Hard. Call heart
Fate. Flow....

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She's so high
Higher
I fall to pieces
Crawling
Hanging by a moment
Its the end of the world as we know it 

I miss you
In the end
A last resort
Nothing...

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Avoid their stares. 
Listen to their words. 
Do they care? 

Neglect your needs. 
Don't socialize. 
Hate yourself. 
Empathize. 

Empathize with 
everybody except 
yourself. 

No! 
Lies!...

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So that you will know
the darkness of flowers
I will kiss your lips at first light.
I will provide sweet morning rain.

Because you must have poetry
I will...

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They dock at the old ferry landing,
drip fern-water and quartz dust,
pull shapes from a memory
nobody can name.
 
The news calls them pioneers.
The city calls for...

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"Time... Always here but never here." By Poet

Time my funny friend,
I cannot see you or feel you.
Yet time you are always with me,
from morning until...

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People may think that
 They know who this poem is about

But they don’t,
And they never will.

I’ve met this boy.
I haven’t known him long.
But it feels...

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Losing someone is hard.
Whether it’s from
Death
 Or you got into a fight.
Or you just had to let them go..

Letting go is hard.
I’ve had to do...

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Behind the mayhem and drama

Beat a sweet loving heart

A childlike playful heart

A heart lacking in self love and worth 

An isolated troubled heart

A self inflicted...

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Today, I mapped out the tears of crying.
I tried to explain how the storms of tears inside me exhaust the efforts I’ve been growing, to...

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I am like the giving tree,
ready to tear myself apart,
letting him seep into every fragment of me.

I carry the weight of him—
swirling in the depths...

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FLY FLY FLY AWAY

Lift the burdens from my heart
 this weight that feels so heavy
 tear it apart with your joy and your love 
let...

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arrive in an
empty
hollow
building
(alone
no purpose)

arrive in a
hollow
empty
building
(alone
no purpose)

arrive in a
purposeless
hollow
building
(alone
empty)

empty in a lonely building without purpose
empty
mpty
pty
ty
y
...

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i keep
a teacup with a cracked rim—
it doesn’t hold warmth for long
but i drink from it anyway.

the hallway light flickers
like it’s unsure
if it wants to...

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