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Loneliness Poems | Examples of Loneliness Poetry

Loneliness Poems - Examples of all types of loneliness 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 loneliness.
Shadow Self, By Nature
Spring tones, the blues— creature sky must come down, For Summer will chip on flowers cut under ploughs, Power now shared by crows long before Autumn's fast, And Winter then, snowing hard with a forest's bare; bony...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, god, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Pantoum



Alone Not Lonely
Charlie is awkwardly social. He lives his life on a cycle. He sometimes meets buddies, He likes to work on his studies, Charlie is awkwardly social. Alfie is cheery and popular, He’s considered rather jocular He often meets friends, Hoping the night never...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Night
It was raining. I thought I’d wait it out. I tuned the engine on to help. Still in place, but the engine rumbles. Flipping through the stations. Music, static, music. Cloying sounds, I’m used to it. It’s only a drizzle now. I turn...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Compassion I Didn't Have
We thought life would have been so simple: flowers and hugs, sentimental nights and songs; then, reality came with its pain... we were no longer that invincible, rather two people so gullible! The compassion I didn't have hurts inside, now it's tearing...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, absence, abuse, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Nature's Flower Runs Through My Fears
Nature's flower runs through my fears, Her old seasons there interceding On the silver gray blunt of the shears, Where the stem—sharpened by night—is keeping For the day's rain starving in the clouds; This time, it needs your weeping. When coming...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, flower, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Terza Rima



Apathy
I wrap my fingers around the pen which has lain dormant collecting dust for months on end feeling as if I'm lifting a fifty pound weight straining not just my joints but my brain, its neurons refusing to fire like the...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, depression, image, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
reverie
An existential crisis Left to my own devices Not an ounce of assistance Never show any resistance Just comply and let it be Dignity isn't a necessity I'm not the flower you'd pick from a garden Orchids are beautiful, I'm a sight...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, 12th grade, age, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Mothered
opposite the I, is where i reside. endure and bide, endlessly. You see My person, nod at this version, never question My identity, You're right in me, not entirely. Your gaze cant see, everything outside Me, ever watching you, unaware I am two. observe me please, ease my...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, childhood, depression, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
A solitary figure
In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childhood's tender grasp, she stood...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy Mothers Day
I was often sad alone as a child the stroller with no face a forgotten object an obligation my father was no better my mother is dead now HAPPY MOTHERS DAY finally ...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, emotions, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mistress, the Moon
From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak my naked shame, to veil my plight. Reigning atop her...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Are we really alone?
We are truly never alone -there's always someone out there that is thinking of us...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Buffalo
No one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s Found its way to live in the heart of the city How it separated from a sky stampede How the great beast dropped its guard and refused to...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, animal, city, earth, endurance,
Form: Free verse
A tarnished soul
Here's a story poem about a girl's tragic descent, imbued with dark imagery: A Broken Doll's Lament Tiny fingers, a gap in the wood, a scene etched in fright, A scream ripped from silence, shattering the night. Mother, a...Read the rest...
Categories: loneliness, anger, cry, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress
"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress" - Daniel Henry Rodgers The hourglass, a skeletal jester, mocks in the tomb's chill, Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, "Soon you'll cease to be." The mirror's cold reflection, a Gorgon's ghastly...Read the rest...
Categories: death, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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