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Sad Poems | All Types of Poems About Sadness

Sad Poems
Sad Poems. Above are examples of sad poems about life, depression, love, and more. Yes, believe it or not, poetry about sadness can help you lift your spirits when you feel down or are unhappy. It is a natural feeling and one that all people experience but talking about how you feel and writing about sadness can put you on the road to healing. Regardless of the reason, or even if there doesn’t seem to be one, reading and sharing poetry can help you when sadness holds you in its grip. These poetic works will help you to learn how to write poetry about sadness and see how the best poets from all over the world write this form of poetry.
The world doesn't want me
The world doesn’t want me— I feel it in the spaces between words, in the rooms that fall silent when I enter, in the way their eyes cut through me, sharp and indifferent. I exist like an echo no...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad
I'm Sad. Because I can no longer do. ...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, age, crazy, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme



thorns in the glass
“there are thorns in the glass” the baby exclaims as she points, points, points to the mirror of life, yet no one listens, and she is ignored. “there are thorns in the glass” the child cries, tugging at men’s jackets, grabbing women’s hands, yet she’s...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, society,
Form: Narrative
Dear Donald
The sky paints you, On the day that you died, And left me with grief so blue. And I cried and cried and cried. The sky is not purple or red. It's the color of my tears that I...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dogs of War and Why I Feel Sad For The Zionists
Babes. Raised to outfit an agenda. The element of nature versus nurture. A pitbull is a dog like any other as is a Jew is a human like any other. Babes. Any dog any human,...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, dog, jewish, sympathy,
Form: Haibun



Still here
The clock ticks, and I sit, it’s 1 AM, A silent treatment to the passing time. Tomorrow, something I cannot touch. Where will I be? Who will I become? The question haunts me but calms me Like quiet waves. Yet I...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, 7th grade, feelings, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poem Number 3,062 for the Day
This is poem number 3,062 for the day ~ 3,060 I’ve thrown away ...Read the rest...
Categories: giggle, poems, sad,
Form: Couplet
Gone
Damn. You're really gone. I guess it hit me on the way To your celebration of life ceremony. It's going to feel weird when I go to the house, The halls won't fill with reggae music...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, 8th grade, death, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
The world once shined in golden hue, But now it weeps in shades of blue. A heart once full, now torn apart, Left cold within the lonely dark. Dark lingers deep where sorrow stays, Sorrow...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Little Stacy
There's a house, enormous and aimless. But there's a mural on the wall that's shameless. It shows a little girl In her dress that twirls, Crazy though she seems. In her eyes, hurt beams. Her father just stands there, Getting nowhere. His back...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, anger, angst, dad, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Losing A Most Treasured Friend
My greatest sin was how I lost you, For my greatest treasure was you....Read the rest...
Categories: sad, break up, first love,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member A New Sadness
she reads the day's news and learns of her new sadness~ notice of his death Note: inspired by "The Gun", Dragnet, season 1 episode 15, April 27, 1967...Read the rest...
Categories: sad,
Form: Senryu
The Masquerade
Oh, your eyes so dry, Longing for a long cry. All those fake chortles, Hollow habits of a mortal. Someone asking, "How's your day?" You liberally Lying with "I'm okay." Okay is not the word I'd use, Though it's an excellent excuse Hiding my...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, angst, anxiety, emotions, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The Incident
It’s deathly cold. The walls are blank The air is so thick that you could take a blade to it as you would a cake and serve it ...Read the rest...
Categories: sad, 8th grade, dark, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Love so warm but heart too cold
The world was gray, a lonely ,dark space, Where joy had fled, leaving no joyful trace. They called me kind, a heart of purest gold, But kindness, it seemed, had grown strangely cold. They'd praise my soul, then turn...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, dark, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Sad Poems

Read wonderful sad poetry on the following sub-topics: boyfriend, breakup, cry, death, depression, feeling, friends, girlfriend, goodbye, heartbreak, kids, life, rhyme, and more.

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