Sad Poems
#sadness
Poems about sadness and sorrow encompass a range of subjects including depression, grief, heartbreak and suffering. Sad poems tell painful stories and offer a window into the soul of someone who is struggling in life or feeling alone.
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#dark
#depression
#despair
#grief
#heartbroken
#hurt
#LifeStruggles
#loneliness
#suffering
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wallyroo92
Poem Published
Today 1:57am
Today 1:57am
Off The Tracks
Pawned away your brain to ride the train
You gambled away all of your money
Your need for speed is like a stampede
But when you speak you sound kind of funny
Maybe the poison you love to drink
Blurs the words from all your books
You pant and rant the same spiteful chant
And yet you can’t see how bad it looks
There’s must be something else afoot
Staggering and lingering in the dark
Check your vitals before you spiral further
There where the evil needle left a mark
You’re speeding down the mountain
When the rails...
You gambled away all of your money
Your need for speed is like a stampede
But when you speak you sound kind of funny
Maybe the poison you love to drink
Blurs the words from all your books
You pant and rant the same spiteful chant
And yet you can’t see how bad it looks
There’s must be something else afoot
Staggering and lingering in the dark
Check your vitals before you spiral further
There where the evil needle left a mark
You’re speeding down the mountain
When the rails...
#sadness
#anger
#politics
#drugs
#MentalHealth
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2 Comments
Kingvirky
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:25pm
Yesterday 8:25pm
Clean my eyes
Clean my eyes
For I oft weep
The things I see around-
The misery and gloom on which I brood
tears me up.
Clean my eyes
For the starving children
The ones they show no more on television
Clean my eyes
For men have gone astray
I am lost in the crowd
I am alone - I am astray
Clean my eyes, clean my eyes
For the sorrow on which I brood
Oft tears me up
For I oft weep
The things I see around-
The misery and gloom on which I brood
tears me up.
Clean my eyes
For the starving children
The ones they show no more on television
Clean my eyes
For men have gone astray
I am lost in the crowd
I am alone - I am astray
Clean my eyes, clean my eyes
For the sorrow on which I brood
Oft tears me up
#sadness
#grief
#heartbroken
#despair
#disappointment
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missjem56
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:14am
Yesterday 10:14am
Forlorn
My tears fall
Like mercurial drops
Silver globules
Explode at contact
With the soddened earth
Ripples of sadness
Flow outwards
Each, and every heartbreak
Rests upon the crests
As memories drown
Within each solitary teardrop
Within each painful memory
That hollows out the soul
As your heart
Sinks into the abyss
As you find yourself
Lost, as in the echoes
Of the final glimmers
And glows
Of a dying star
And soon
Your light
Will shine
No
More
...
Like mercurial drops
Silver globules
Explode at contact
With the soddened earth
Ripples of sadness
Flow outwards
Each, and every heartbreak
Rests upon the crests
As memories drown
Within each solitary teardrop
Within each painful memory
That hollows out the soul
As your heart
Sinks into the abyss
As you find yourself
Lost, as in the echoes
Of the final glimmers
And glows
Of a dying star
And soon
Your light
Will shine
No
More
...
#sadness
#loneliness
#heartbroken #emptiness
#heartbroken #emptiness
5 reads
0 Comments
MsRockyJackson
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:24am
Yesterday 7:24am
Guess I Was Wrong
Guess I was wrong to assume you were the one for me when you sold me on a fairy tale instead of a reality,
I guess I was wrong to believe we were meant to be when I should of known you were too good to be true,
I guess I should have known better than to love someone who wouldn't really love me back,
Guess I was wrong to have love you when you didn't love me at all.
All I wanted was you to love me, but you didn't love me at all did you?
All I wanted was to love you and you to love me, but tell me were you ever for real? I guess not then huh?
You promised me the...
I guess I was wrong to believe we were meant to be when I should of known you were too good to be true,
I guess I should have known better than to love someone who wouldn't really love me back,
Guess I was wrong to have love you when you didn't love me at all.
All I wanted was you to love me, but you didn't love me at all did you?
All I wanted was to love you and you to love me, but tell me were you ever for real? I guess not then huh?
You promised me the...
#sadness
#anger
#love
#depression
#hurt
44 reads
4 Comments
NANCY_RDZ_STORIES
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:10am
Yesterday 5:10am
RADIO
Hearing the whispers
and hisses of a dreadful day
Without a word to say
Only the voices of winds howling "look how they sway, sway"...
Puddles It ruddles it will stay...
Never will it go away...
Rain is coming...
But thunder is sounding
the house it is rumbling and pounding
The dark skies runway in black and grey
SHHHH.....
"They are aiming my way".....
No need to wait, for It won't delay
We are in June, no longer in May...
Windows taps and claps...
Sounds of water splats as it feels like it...
and hisses of a dreadful day
Without a word to say
Only the voices of winds howling "look how they sway, sway"...
Puddles It ruddles it will stay...
Never will it go away...
Rain is coming...
But thunder is sounding
the house it is rumbling and pounding
The dark skies runway in black and grey
SHHHH.....
"They are aiming my way".....
No need to wait, for It won't delay
We are in June, no longer in May...
Windows taps and claps...
Sounds of water splats as it feels like it...
#sadness
#love
#loneliness
#hope
#inspirational
16 reads
2 Comments
nikkimoe
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:10am
Yesterday 5:10am
Dementia.
The library in her mind had burned.
Only a few singed pages remained,
she recited them everyday, then those
turned to ash and the poor woman
had nothing left to say.
Only a few singed pages remained,
she recited them everyday, then those
turned to ash and the poor woman
had nothing left to say.
#sadness
#love
#books
24 reads
7 Comments
poetjj
Poem Published
24th Jan 2021 5:05pm
24th Jan 2021 5:05pm
This poem is called Triumph 2020
This poem is called Triumph 2020
It’s 11:59 PM December 31, surrounded by friends and family we all got ready to begin again. Watching the countdown of the ball drop.
The bottles, the proposals all getting set to happen.
Nobody had any idea what it would be.
The year began simple enough.
Still it was about goals and dreams and new adventures.
2020 became slowly Weird and unkind .
We lost 24 purple and gold would mean more than ever.
Nineteen became a number so infamous it put fear in the heart of everybody.
We...
It’s 11:59 PM December 31, surrounded by friends and family we all got ready to begin again. Watching the countdown of the ball drop.
The bottles, the proposals all getting set to happen.
Nobody had any idea what it would be.
The year began simple enough.
Still it was about goals and dreams and new adventures.
2020 became slowly Weird and unkind .
We lost 24 purple and gold would mean more than ever.
Nineteen became a number so infamous it put fear in the heart of everybody.
We...
#sadness
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
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0 Comments
Tallquietguy
Poem Published
24th Jan 2021 6:24am
24th Jan 2021 6:24am
Fading
Lightning flashes,
thunder rolls
Rain clatters on the tin porch roof
My hope, my faith
pour down the gutter into the earth
Nature cries my tears for me
I want so badly to die
I can taste the blackness
In desperation I teach for...
Five bullets and a trigger
are looming ever bigger
But it only takes one to reach
the kill-switch on the sun
Lights out and all is done
The movie's over, the reaper's won
Life is a scam of struggle and pain
A Hollywood ending
never stood a chance
...
thunder rolls
Rain clatters on the tin porch roof
My hope, my faith
pour down the gutter into the earth
Nature cries my tears for me
I want so badly to die
I can taste the blackness
In desperation I teach for...
Five bullets and a trigger
are looming ever bigger
But it only takes one to reach
the kill-switch on the sun
Lights out and all is done
The movie's over, the reaper's won
Life is a scam of struggle and pain
A Hollywood ending
never stood a chance
...
#sadness
#depression
#despair
#disappointment
#emptiness
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0 Comments
Tallquietguy
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2021 7:41pm
23rd Jan 2021 7:41pm
The Sun Will Not Always Rise
What would you say if that 'see-you-later'
was really saying goodbye;
if you knew in your heart, if not in your head,
that one of you was going to die?
Words left unsaid and deeds left undone
slowly consume the soul,
like acid rain dripping on mortal flesh,
till lies and truth are exposed.
For Death is a thief, he will not be mocked,
cheat him now though you may;
The sun that rises eventually falls
and may not light a new day.
was really saying goodbye;
if you knew in your heart, if not in your head,
that one of you was going to die?
Words left unsaid and deeds left undone
slowly consume the soul,
like acid rain dripping on mortal flesh,
till lies and truth are exposed.
For Death is a thief, he will not be mocked,
cheat him now though you may;
The sun that rises eventually falls
and may not light a new day.
#sadness
#death
#LifeCycle #bittersweet
#LifeCycle #bittersweet
14 reads
1 Comment
Tallquietguy
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2021 7:39pm
23rd Jan 2021 7:39pm
Night Falls in Manchester
I kissed you goodbye,
watched you walk out the door
How was I to know
I wouldn't kiss you anymore?
When we woke on that morning,
it was just another day
Never could I have dreamed
that you'd be stolen away
How is it the world doesn't stop
when so many shattered hearts break?
Where are heaven's angels
when the sky's on fire with rage?
Darkness falls on Manchester
while the minions of Satan laugh
Does love still exist inside of man
or am I a fool to even ask?
Surely terror is the refuge of...
watched you walk out the door
How was I to know
I wouldn't kiss you anymore?
When we woke on that morning,
it was just another day
Never could I have dreamed
that you'd be stolen away
How is it the world doesn't stop
when so many shattered hearts break?
Where are heaven's angels
when the sky's on fire with rage?
Darkness falls on Manchester
while the minions of Satan laugh
Does love still exist inside of man
or am I a fool to even ask?
Surely terror is the refuge of...
#sadness
#anger
#grief
#dark
#heartbroken
20 reads
2 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2021 2:25pm
23rd Jan 2021 2:25pm
cradle.
O' mossy earth
of whisper'd secrets
hidden, deep
ahh,
the languid richness
wafts thoughts
of wooden decay
temperate forest
in intrigued wonder,
teasing your spectacular
flaring gossamer spray
c o m e
~ lie naked ~
with all your
exquisite horror
have the nightingale fly,
taking with them
all the sorrow
Yes!
forest of thy very
cherished own
bare all
your mysterious floral
cradle me,
within your densely brow
as i inhale
the perfumed...
of whisper'd secrets
hidden, deep
ahh,
the languid richness
wafts thoughts
of wooden decay
temperate forest
in intrigued wonder,
teasing your spectacular
flaring gossamer spray
c o m e
~ lie naked ~
with all your
exquisite horror
have the nightingale fly,
taking with them
all the sorrow
Yes!
forest of thy very
cherished own
bare all
your mysterious floral
cradle me,
within your densely brow
as i inhale
the perfumed...
#sadness
#loneliness
#dark
#flowers
#nature
80 reads
24 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Bumped 23rd Jan 2021 1:09am
11th Aug 2020 00:00am
11th Aug 2020 00:00am
Floating homeward
Darkness fell over her
Like gray liquid night
Her mind was not her own
Rest easy sweet child
Float homeward into the loam
No more pain
No more sadness
No more searching
For that lost happiness
You've taken your place
With the angels
Amongst the sparkling stars
Like gray liquid night
Her mind was not her own
Rest easy sweet child
Float homeward into the loam
No more pain
No more sadness
No more searching
For that lost happiness
You've taken your place
With the angels
Amongst the sparkling stars
#sadness
#grief
#hope
#courage
#bittersweet
103 reads
3 Comments
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