Tragedy in Poetry and Poems about Tragedy
#tragedy
Tragedy in poetry and poems about tragedy. Serious poetry describing terrible melancholy events encountered personally, or by another person, or a group of people in society.
LivDiane
Liv Diane
Liv Diane
Poem Published
16th Mar 2019 5:36am
16th Mar 2019 5:36am
The Tale of Two Beauties
With smoke in the air, wind in the trees,
I almost didn’t see the blood on the leaves.
Your pale body spread across a wood,
Not even knowing where your killer stood.
I started to think, he could still be near,
I stopped my breathing, thinking he might hear.
I couldn’t save you, for I didn’t know,
That you were going to die in the snow.
I continued to walk, my breathing slow,
I had to find the source, I had to know.
I dropped real close to the frozen ground,
Hoped he wouldn’t see me if he was...
I almost didn’t see the blood on the leaves.
Your pale body spread across a wood,
Not even knowing where your killer stood.
I started to think, he could still be near,
I stopped my breathing, thinking he might hear.
I couldn’t save you, for I didn’t know,
That you were going to die in the snow.
I continued to walk, my breathing slow,
I had to find the source, I had to know.
I dropped real close to the frozen ground,
Hoped he wouldn’t see me if he was...
#death
#mountains
#snow #tragedy
#snow #tragedy
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15 Comments
Jonny212
Poem Published
15th Mar 2019 1:35pm
15th Mar 2019 1:35pm
This morning Death was a white man
#dark
#death
#evil
#tragedy
#despair
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PandoraUnleashed
Poem Published
13th Mar 2019 10:19pm
13th Mar 2019 10:19pm
He Is In My Story
Epiphanies & intuitive reflections; silently, has He whispered to me
So sacred & dear; His penalties were never to free me from travesty
Equipped with my every downfall & gift; from His draft, was I built
Life isn't a reverie in which I have any authority to write my script
I was born a child into a life where all to ever be, was broken
Ornaments of pain; I carry - a better soul though, they've woven
An angel often unworthy of His graces; cling ever so to sweet sin
A moth to it's flame - as I crash; His light ignites within ...
So sacred & dear; His penalties were never to free me from travesty
Equipped with my every downfall & gift; from His draft, was I built
Life isn't a reverie in which I have any authority to write my script
I was born a child into a life where all to ever be, was broken
Ornaments of pain; I carry - a better soul though, they've woven
An angel often unworthy of His graces; cling ever so to sweet sin
A moth to it's flame - as I crash; His light ignites within ...
#hope
#God
#spiritual
#tragedy
#suffering
80 reads
23 Comments
LivDiane
Liv Diane
Liv Diane
Poem Published
12th Mar 2019 3:27am
12th Mar 2019 3:27am
My Song
Stepped into the area under false pretenses
I didnt know it then, but I would need defenses
My cousin had me out, searching for her drunk ass
I didnt know it then, but this would become "my past"
My phone had just died when you grabbed hold
The room was dark, but you weren't very old
There's two people here, three including me
I reached out to steady myself, but I could barely see
Someone grabbed my throat, into the wall I went
Just a second passed and then I was on the bed ...
I didnt know it then, but I would need defenses
My cousin had me out, searching for her drunk ass
I didnt know it then, but this would become "my past"
My phone had just died when you grabbed hold
The room was dark, but you weren't very old
There's two people here, three including me
I reached out to steady myself, but I could barely see
Someone grabbed my throat, into the wall I went
Just a second passed and then I was on the bed ...
#abuse
#LifeStruggles
#PTSD #tragedy
#PTSD #tragedy
47 reads
7 Comments
scarletegret
Sasha Fenn
Sasha Fenn
Poem Published
9th Mar 2019 3:44pm
9th Mar 2019 3:44pm
Quarrel of the Birds
One was hovering in its place
whilst the other did ascend.
Both mighty birds were ready
to spar until the end.
Together, each one drifting through
the chorus of the wind
A flash of light did come at last
to take them through the gate
to a timeless place where they might end
their violent old debate
each flier's foremost task to seal
the other's grimmest fate.
The earth did sing their last farewell
with the ground's awesome quake.
Creatures scurried to and fro
as the land below did break,
each fearing...
whilst the other did ascend.
Both mighty birds were ready
to spar until the end.
Together, each one drifting through
the chorus of the wind
A flash of light did come at last
to take them through the gate
to a timeless place where they might end
their violent old debate
each flier's foremost task to seal
the other's grimmest fate.
The earth did sing their last farewell
with the ground's awesome quake.
Creatures scurried to and fro
as the land below did break,
each fearing...
#war
#birds
#narrative
#mythology
#tragedy
31 reads
4 Comments
SakuraSlowly
Wichelen
Wichelen
Poem Published
5th Mar 2019 8:43pm
5th Mar 2019 8:43pm
Over you
Take me over and you hold me close to you take me over you! Take me, take me, over you beg me over you, cry over you hold me close to you but bleed me out as i say you! I watch you come down beging for one more round! I see you each night in my bed bleeding out for one more chance, so take me over you love me like no one knew, each night in my bed beging for it to never end. Take me over you hold me to thi life ends and we can begin all anew, take me over then i beg you they dont understand take me over you end my life so i can start anew! Take me over, take me over you so my life so our...
#love
#dark
#tragedy
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SakuraSlowly
Wichelen
Wichelen
Poem Published
5th Mar 2019 8:23pm
5th Mar 2019 8:23pm
It a trick
It a trick but i will fallow you down and burn together it a trick but ill fallow you where ever, nothing can hold me down when we together; nothing can make scence when i fallow you down. It a trick, it a trick, i will fallow you down no matter how...! Cant you see that in my eyes i hold you close even if the pain wont suside i will fallow you down for forever, i will hold you close screaming and whatever. It a trick, it a trick eyes crying out, blood coming down... hair falling out, our teeth grinding down, our bodys giving in before we can black out. It a trick.. it a trick it was...
#love
#dark
#tragedy
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1 Comment
Xia
Poem Published
3rd Mar 2019 2:29am
3rd Mar 2019 2:29am
No hope
Amidst animalistic archetypes, aggravated angels are angered by altruistic ambiguity. Anguish arises amongst the airwaves allowing avoidable atrocities asylum. Anxiousness accumulates as the antichrists armies awaits orders. Arduous abominations acquiring awareness, aiming animosity at apocalyptic alters. Every error eagerly enacted, eradicates each individuals earthly endeavours. Existing elated yet eerily exhausted, evoking emotions on the edge of existence. Innocence is immobilized by inadequate intentions. Isolating imagination and integrating immoral idols into mainstream ideas. Inching...
#tragedy
#suffering
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1 Comment
PandoraUnleashed
Poem Published
1st Mar 2019 3:18am
1st Mar 2019 3:18am
Marionette
By the strings, hangs a pretty little
tragedy; tied in bows by a force all infinite Tinkered & toyed; redundantly, she
watches the iniquitous pendulum sway Seized & entangled by inadequacies; her mind & body always in dissonance Little rag doll smiles & keeps it sexy; still, will she welcome her final matinee
tragedy; tied in bows by a force all infinite Tinkered & toyed; redundantly, she
watches the iniquitous pendulum sway Seized & entangled by inadequacies; her mind & body always in dissonance Little rag doll smiles & keeps it sexy; still, will she welcome her final matinee
#LifeStruggles
#illness
#frustration
#tragedy
#disappointment
153 reads
35 Comments
anonymouslyhere
Poem Published
21st Feb 2019 11:16pm
21st Feb 2019 11:16pm
It Burned Slowly/ A Life of Last Breaths
We fell from the heavens
On the remains of life
Lost in fragments
Floating particals of ash
It covers the earth entirely
Tirelessly unrelenting
Smoke rained downward
All the eyes were put out
Our lives are emptiness
Bleak photographs
Of years we never lived
Colorless as our effection
A man stood there
In the overcast sunrise
Emotionless
Overwhelmed
I held his hat for a time
In his greiving he submitted
There shall be no forgiveness
Among these flesh-statues
Bound to this lifelessness ...
On the remains of life
Lost in fragments
Floating particals of ash
It covers the earth entirely
Tirelessly unrelenting
Smoke rained downward
All the eyes were put out
Our lives are emptiness
Bleak photographs
Of years we never lived
Colorless as our effection
A man stood there
In the overcast sunrise
Emotionless
Overwhelmed
I held his hat for a time
In his greiving he submitted
There shall be no forgiveness
Among these flesh-statues
Bound to this lifelessness ...
#dark
#silence
#tragedy #suffering
#tragedy #suffering
48 reads
2 Comments
joegracegrace
Joe Grace
Joe Grace
Poem Published
14th Feb 2019 11:50am
14th Feb 2019 11:50am
America's Coming SELF-Destruction
There are people who always say things like Nobody can destroy this country.
Only we, ourselves, can destroy America - from within.
I have always ignored them as ignorant fools.
For I have always looked at RUSSIA as a mortal threat to the existence of the USA.
But on one level those people are right.
For even though its Russia who will bomb our cities, erasing them from the Earth,
it is our gov't that is encouraging Russia to do so.
For we have foolishly DISARMED, abandoning common sense by disowning our priceless Nuclear Arsenal !!
In effect, we are...
Only we, ourselves, can destroy America - from within.
I have always ignored them as ignorant fools.
For I have always looked at RUSSIA as a mortal threat to the existence of the USA.
But on one level those people are right.
For even though its Russia who will bomb our cities, erasing them from the Earth,
it is our gov't that is encouraging Russia to do so.
For we have foolishly DISARMED, abandoning common sense by disowning our priceless Nuclear Arsenal !!
In effect, we are...
#lies
#death
#evil
#tragedy
#suffering
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PandoraUnleashed
Poem Published
14th Feb 2019 6:29am
14th Feb 2019 6:29am
Washed Ashore
Who she was and all she dreamed to one day be; shall not be, forevermore
Slightly broken; still, she radiantly glows, ones light & hope; their beacon at sea
Battling the magestic; tattered & torn, she's like a mermaid washed ashore
In waters cold & storm tides deep; she'll fight ~ not a willing victim of travesty
Only one's light & hope; their beacon at sea, tattered & torn, a mermaid washed ashore
Slightly broken; still, she radiantly glows, ones light & hope; their beacon at sea
Battling the magestic; tattered & torn, she's like a mermaid washed ashore
In waters cold & storm tides deep; she'll fight ~ not a willing victim of travesty
Only one's light & hope; their beacon at sea, tattered & torn, a mermaid washed ashore
#strength
#LifeChangingMoment
#uplifting #tragedy
#uplifting #tragedy
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