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Sadness Poems - Poems about Sadness

Sadness Poems - Examples of all types of poems about sadness 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 sadness.
Whispering Mind
Emotionless eyes that have the colour of wind, looking in mine...killing me from inside. Why do I feel so tired all the time? Seeing everything you do, being blind. Fearing your unstable mind, destroying mine. Whispering in my...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, abuse, depression, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Depression
Dagger, In my heart. Downcast, lonely, fears consume, Those who have pure hearts. ...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, 9th grade, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Haiku



Too America
Too many women with fewer choices Too many kids dodging bullets in fear Too many in danger for just being ***** So many attempts to silence our voices Too many immigrant lives at stake Too many...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, abortion, america, anger, humanity,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY
With the results of this election…the majority of people think I shouldn’t be sad after all, they say, we only disagree politically! This was democracy in action, they add, we voted for the changes we want to...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member America Did Not Die
For crying out loud Due to the outcome I was not particularly proud For more than two centuries, election days go and come At a similar season, every four years This time, there were plenty of wows and tears Of disappointment,...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Hope Is For The Dumb
At least I’m not alone At least I have friends by my side But what do we do When the silence is the kind shared when somebody has died I hear celebrations I read the words of people I can...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, culture, discrimination, emotions, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Hours
I won`t be too long I`ll just write a simple song Sometimes the days are too short And I enjoy working and sport Sometimes the hours are too long And I don`t know where I belong These hours frighten me With their...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, depression,
Form: Rhyme
A New Sunday
Clouds moving, alarm ringing; Yet the child sleeps still... Daydreams drift, revealing their boredom, All this soul desires is the taste of freedom. Eyes opened, scanning the room, Parents' schedules echo with a familiar tune. It's Sunday again— Yet parents busy strategizing, Planning...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, absence, anxiety, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme
Griever
Here I am in tears over a story that’s never affected me Baggy eyes from a grief that’s never even mentioned me and yet my own griefs don’t frighten me- I don’t cry over it, I...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, angst, anxiety, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom
In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom, but my body is a vessel, an amphora for all of it, the rage, the grief, the longing, they sit in my...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ahead of you but in the shadows
Ok. I know you Don't see me the Way I see you. But don't you know when Your sad it makes me sad too. And when your happy it makes me glad. Watching you Fight through your Anger issues I wish...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, deep,
Form: Free verse
The death off me
I walk with my darkest shadows through vile valley. All I have is this constant disheartening worry. Help me! Help me I’m drowning with a melancholic cry. No one even bothered to investigate my despairing direction. So, I decided...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, anxiety, cry, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Suffering
In an invisible body of glass, Where the brain feels it should strike. The eyes have its frequent eye wash. The mouth obliged to keep silent. The heart feels siffened in a cage of its own. Happiness tries to...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, feelings, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member THE NEXT SUNRISE
I cannot begin to understand the agony, the heartache…the pain of the people who lost so much in the recent hurricanes. We see first-hand or on TV what’s happened…but can we really comprehend… the grief…when the wind and...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Emotional Siege
My emotions tease me at their will, Plunder my hapless intellectual world And declare a bloodless coup d’état. This undeclared war shocks my core, Grips me with a freakish fear And forces me to plunge deep within, To rein in my...Read the rest...
Categories: sadness, emotions, happiness, philosophy, sad,
Form: Free verse

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