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Sad Poems | All Types of Poems About Sadness

No reprieve
You take joy in seeing my heart bleed, Because of your avarice and greed. The pains you caused come with no reprieve, Yet you’ve the audacity to leave. I invested every ounce in you, Your ponderings control all I do. My bitter cries you heedlessly sought, Yet you’re blind to the hatred you brought. How can your mind ever be at peace, When the...

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Categories: sad, anger, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Is He Man Enough?
If she was the one who unbuttoned her blouse first, who closed the door, who whispered “Come on, don’t be shy,” and still—he said no. If she was the one who laid herself bare, threw herself at him like a dare in a quiet room—was he man enough to say he didn’t want it? To...

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Categories: sad, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse



Echoes in the Dark
My chest holds echoes none can hear, A hush of thoughts that won’t appear. What once was warm now drifts like mist, A weight unseen, too dense to lift. Each fracture blooms a quieter scar, Where bitter seeds still grow afar. No shore, no flame, no sense of tide— Just vacant halls I roam inside. By day I wear a borrowed face, By night...

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Categories: heaven, sad, spiritual,
Form: Elegy
Silent Hymn
She left no echo, made no sound, Just folded time without a frown. No curtain call, no loud applause— Just grace departing without pause. A hand once warm now gently still, A final breath, a resting will. And yet, her presence lingers on— In morning light and dusk till dawn. Soft is the way the faithful part— A silent hymn within the heart. No need...

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Categories: farewell, sad, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Aging Shadows
early evening walk two shadows walking ahead melting into one...

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Categories: sad, age, health, life,
Form: Haiku



Deeply Sleeping
Chorus I'm deeply sleeping while she's breathing; two breaths mixing, two hearts beating. Verse I The wintry night totally dark and cold embraces us, it can never make us shiver; we keep warm and feel behind delighted each heartbeat measures a minimal fear. Verse II The many secrets of past loves remain inside, we've buried all evidence, too afraid to reveal any of them that...

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Categories: sad, anxiety, betrayal, dark, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Untitled
Its breaking.... Under sea. Underneath, I lost all feeling, Do fish not feel the rod piercing? Sometimes I was too Vulnerable breakable fragile young small tiny, me. I'm getting tired I'm too weary to surface. Resilience, is not a word but a death sentence of irony plates I breathe in. Hey, do you wish to see the worse in me, the abyss snaps the frame, Inner child... its frozen eye... I still feel, morning train, a rush through, what couldn't who wouldn't save me. - - - - - - - - - - -...

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Categories: sad, abuse, children, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
and the good guys lost
and the good guys lost all of us "got feet of clay we are tainted, corrupted and who of us will not say "no, not me, I will be trusted" we've come a long way, 'never stay too long we'll have the last word if only to be wrong evolution has gone to hell myopic, fighting for peace ev'ry sucker for himself all hail, this...

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Categories: dark, sad, society, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Three Winds They Rise A Trilogy Poem in Tribute to the Souls of Flight 17 - June 2025!
The “Mayday” radio call message was the final voice from Air India 171 flight bound for London seconds before it crashed creating an eternal memorial for 241 gracious beings, with one survivor. My heartfelt sympathy and condolences to every family member, friend, and associate of those who made their ascent into the heavenly realms. May...

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Categories: sad, angel, farewell, grief, june,
Form: Prose
The world is bleeding
In Ankara and Moscow, the ground is crimson red ~ a carpet spread on fields once green. Life’s fluid, like red gold, flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers – lifestreams of Rossiyane and Turks spilled from their inner oceans. Their bones ~ lifeless as strings of dead fish, litter seas once full of life. The tears of fatherless children fill the Black Sea, their futures...

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Categories: grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
A Lonesome Catharsis
He never questioned the weight behind his eyes until the day he finally woke up. For as long as he could remember, the mud had been a part of him. A thick, caked crust beneath his skin that hardened with each passing year. He believed everyone carried the same layer, worn like a second skin,...

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Categories: sad, change, emotions, identity, loneliness,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Man In The Moon
Dancing in my room as the daylight fades my silhouette turns pirouettes on the window shade how much love does it take to break the spell and shake this gloom I know too well rainy days I've had my share the outlook it's not always fair searching for a way reaching out for you 'til you return and make the sun shine...

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Categories: blue, moon, romantic, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Song
Within a circle of emerald peaks Where memories stretch a million mile long Whistled through bright black plumes and golden streaks Wherever life exists, it sings a song Blessed Kaua'i, where the 'o'o reside Lonesome haven for that endemic race A frail and fertile ground for doom to ride Pestilence brought forth extinction's embrace Those wooden whales passed on a host of beasts Cats...

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Categories: sad, bird, death, nature, obituary,
Form: Sonnet
more trouble than it’s worth
I tried the blade, but it was too cold to follow through. I considered water, but I wish to leave looking like me. Rope seemed too staged—too dramatic. Gravity breaks every waking bone. Pills just make you ache and vomit. In the end, it’s easier to endure than escape....

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Categories: dark, death, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
Queen Checkmate
There was a young Lady who followed a Prince, then became a Princess when she kissed a frog, I don't know why — perhaps she's Di. This same young Lady married the dog, not a hog to marry a dog, she married the frog to catch a King, I don't know why — perhaps she'll die. There was a young frog who...

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Categories: sad, animal, dog, horse, in
Form: Rhyme

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