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Melancholy Poems - Poems about Melancholy

Melancholy Poems - Examples of all types of poems about melancholy to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for melancholy.
Premium Member determined to be morose macabre and melancholy
she resigned herself to feeling morose macabre and melancholy determined to be miserable, was our cousin, Miss Harriet Holly. Focusing on wretched negativity, and all things bad. Tossing good things out of her schemata said my friend Tad. Determined...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pretty Melancholy
Desolate, windswept trees are shivery, when red and purple leaves are falling. Ungathered cherries hang in reverie! Desolate, windswept trees are shivery, engaged in multihued, cool creativity. Goodbye violet birds skyrocket, calling! Desolate, windswept trees are shivery, when red and purple leaves...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, autumn, beautiful, color, goodbye,
Form: Triolet



Whispers of Autumn
The amber leaves descend in swirling grace, Beneath the skies that fade from blue to gray, They dance upon the wind, a soft embrace, As autumn steals the warmth of summer’s day. The trees stand tall, though skies may...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, autumn, nature, seasons, wind,
Form: Dizain


Premium Member TV and Beer With Melancholy Salad
Grab for all the gusto you can Because TV and beer are all I need, man! Weltanschauung? Yes, it is one Not a real complex decision So, let us for a moment, and as we are able Look at what...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, god, philosophy, religious,
Form: Rhyme
signs of autumn
pine cones drop like tears from a weeping willow's bough autumn's gentle grief burnt orange cake spread on the bottom of our shoes amber hues take hold gales of wind gust strong over beds of crimson rust uncovering seeds...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, color, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Melancholy syphony
Melancholy symphony Last night presented to me Look to the future is what was said Leave the past behind as it is dead Enjoy the elements the earth gives us Even the rain and sun that we got in August September...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Tears
If you don't feel sorry for yourself then who is there to feel your pain? trying to be in someone else's shoes never really feels quite the same the affect and sentiment in truth fits you only like your name so...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, heart, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Melancholy
My cat eats food. Not all at once like he would prefer. Late at night, he scurries back for more. Standing by a lake. It’s frozen. Snow is frozen too, but softer. Is it a lake anymore? If it isn’t alive with...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Compassions Coverings Midnight Melancholy Dedicated verse for Shasta Simms-
Compassions Coverings Midnight Melancholy Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews- Verse 1 The moon hangs heavy in the midnight blacken sky The streetlights flicker as the day goes night by Feeling that old familiar unmentioned strain Blues creeping in, like a...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Melancholy
She took a pose utterly divine. Lips caught the light as they shone like wine. Eyes caught by the cameraman’s flashes. With the languid flutter of lashes. As all eyes were upon her. Never allowing a smile to occur....Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the twilight of a violet sunset, when my soul dons veils of melancholy
In the twilight of a violet sunset, when my soul dons veils of melancholy, I sit alone, surrounded by phantasms and unspoken words, whispering ancient incantations, My verses, silk threads woven from starry tears and lunar sighs, Rise...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Jaw Harp Blues
listen to her galaxies the far away her slow dances listen to the near and here her melancholic atmosphere in what a world may androids sing metallic voice or sheer the wind yet I, the wind oh restless be and still, my harp still me ...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, anxiety, depression, life, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the twilight of my thoughts, where shadows weave a tapestry of melancholy
In the twilight of my thoughts, where shadows weave a tapestry of melancholy, I find myself floating on a sea of memories, where the men who were most alive Emerge from the mist of time, their figures...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the elevator
have you ever grappled with despair not in imagery, symbolism or portrayal. I mean, have you ever felt the elevator drop the watery weakness that extenuates breath a depth of fatigue that makes lying on the floor a burden an...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, dark, daughter, depression, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a world immersed in the foggy twilight of melancholy
In a world immersed in the foggy twilight of melancholy, People wander like fleeting shadows, dreaming with wide-open eyes, Caught in the whirl of apathetic roles, the fairy of ignorance smiles And with a tender gesture, she envelops...Read the rest...
Categories: melancholy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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