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Tragic Poems - Poems about Tragic

Tragic Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tragic 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 tragic.
How Love Works
It’s funny how love works sometimes one minute you’re both strangers the next you’re in love with a man whom you can never have he proposes to every girl any girl besides you even though he never paid to take up space in your brain or your heart and he...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, 10th grade, betrayal, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tragic truth baptised with salt
A warrior's death comes quickly fixed firmly upon his King's pro choice when he crosses the great divide separation from a body wheat and chaff To Honour virtues as laid upon stone correctly where his worth...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, blessing, conflict, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



A mighty ship, Titanic
They built a ship, to sail the blue. A sight of wonder, a dream come true. They thought they built, a mighty view. There is no sea, it can’t sail through. But they were wrong. For what they built, was not so strong. It...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, death, farewell, fate, fear,
Form: Rhyme


What an ART to get HURT
You were enchanted by the mystery, You thought it was love and pursued me. Been excited to discover every part of me. Touched me like a book, what an interesting story it could be. I am just ordinary, people might...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, art, beauty, betrayal, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Tragic Tale
"If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is." - Michael Douglas I have a tragic tale to tell. This story’s true, so listen well so you won’t let the devil’s spawn lure you with an...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, sad, sin,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Venom Of Love
A candlelit room, love's sweet embrace, A romantic setup, a magical space. Soft music playing, filling the air, As they danced together, without a care. Where love could blossom at its prime, Where in candlelight, they might have dined, In...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, 11th grade, death, deep,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member UNDEFINED
UNDEFINED (a true story) The morning after the total housefire, 52 years ago, when the journalist asked the elderly man, “How do you feel after this tragic, sudden death of your...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, death, future, grief, language,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Magic Or Tragic
How to define the difference between magic and tragic Your first kiss under a big yellow moon is definitely “magic” Or maybe in later years when you pull out a ring And ask her to marry you and...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Lost Works, Part II
......The loss of Alexandria, the burning of Ashburnham House, the Grand Library of Baghdad which the Mongolians tore down, the countless Aztec codices that the conquistadors all burned... just thinking of the knowledge lost sometimes can make my stomach churn. Even Shakespeare claims...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, books, history, loss, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Works, Part I
I was reading Aristotle, because I am just weird like that, and as I poured through ancient words I was presented with the fact that what I read from classic times saw far deeper then I can see, he’s twenty-three centuries...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, books, history, loss, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Tir na nog - A Tragic Epic Saga
Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner a he and she, she killed by a tree, when it fell he couldn’t warn...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, dark, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Tragic Tale, No More
*Written for an AP contest in which the theme was to write an alternate ending for a favorite book, poem etc. Shakespeare's quill gave Romeo and Juliet a tragic ending but that's a sad love...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
He Died With A Smile, Part V
...He fell to the snow, choking his last breath, Dalton watched despite his own fading strength, Barnes dismounted and walked over to him, said, “I see that you have found Miller then.” Dalton just nodded. “They children they had, I...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, abuse, angel, children, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
He Died With A Smile, Part IV
He saw a girl wearing only one shoe, and drew the other one from his pocket, tied it on her foot, and said to the girl, “You have to run now, please, go on and get!” She bolted off...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, abuse, anger, children, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
He Died With A Smile, Part III
He followed this path for half a mile, found himself high up on a cold platform. The trail split, one went across the mesa, the other went right, winding down below. On the left he could see clear wagon...Read the rest...
Categories: tragic, abuse, anger, children, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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