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.
ThroughTheVeil
Poem Published
Today 9:29pm
Today 9:29pm
Red
Red, the color of lust and love.
Or is it the color of death and blood.
Both are things people write of,
but yet together, few to none,
so that's exactly what I've done.
When some think of red,
they think of what their lover said,
they think of what they do in bed.
Some long for the day they too will be wed.
For them this is the color red.
Still others equate red with dead.
They think of pain and sonmeone who bled.
They think of time in their death bed.
Red could be a severed head.
For these too are also red. ...
Or is it the color of death and blood.
Both are things people write of,
but yet together, few to none,
so that's exactly what I've done.
When some think of red,
they think of what their lover said,
they think of what they do in bed.
Some long for the day they too will be wed.
For them this is the color red.
Still others equate red with dead.
They think of pain and sonmeone who bled.
They think of time in their death bed.
Red could be a severed head.
For these too are also red. ...
#love
#hate
#lust
#war
#tragedy
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_boybrains
Poem Published
21st May 2019 11:40pm
21st May 2019 11:40pm
200519.
The pain
lives privately
deep within
the poetry;
astonishing
how we can
bleed love
& tragedy.
lives privately
deep within
the poetry;
astonishing
how we can
bleed love
& tragedy.
#love
#confessional
#tragedy #suffering
#tragedy #suffering
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slipalong
Poem Published
20th May 2019 4:37pm
20th May 2019 4:37pm
The spectrum to come (rainbows end)
Red
Seeing it and then be calm
That mist be one of healing balm
And know that danger overwhelms
Now to defend your blood and bonds
Orange
The badge that warns and brings alarm
" hi viz" jacket and its omens
Signs that we ignored in time prolonged
Of amber resin burned and forests gone
Yellow
The cowardly will nor compete
When your ideals make people sick
Oppose all those coal burning plants
The sulphur clouds the choking cough
Green
Come now join the verdant tribe
CREE...
Seeing it and then be calm
That mist be one of healing balm
And know that danger overwhelms
Now to defend your blood and bonds
Orange
The badge that warns and brings alarm
" hi viz" jacket and its omens
Signs that we ignored in time prolonged
Of amber resin burned and forests gone
Yellow
The cowardly will nor compete
When your ideals make people sick
Oppose all those coal burning plants
The sulphur clouds the choking cough
Green
Come now join the verdant tribe
CREE...
#rainbow
#tragedy
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AaHarvey
Poem Published
16th May 2019 3:57pm
16th May 2019 3:57pm
Standing at the precipice
So here I am.
Is this it?
All I have to give,
To live,
For this?
Decision time.
Write a rhyme,
Or right a wrong.
Find a song.
Speak a line.
Sign goodbye on the dotted line…
Do not say why if you do not understand.
By now I guess you never will.
I have spent a life-time running up that hill
And for what?
My lot is broken pieces;
Memories of people’s speeches.
The lies they told,
I am already cold,
To the ways of humanity.
Long time been a ghost.
I save today for a better time....
Is this it?
All I have to give,
To live,
For this?
Decision time.
Write a rhyme,
Or right a wrong.
Find a song.
Speak a line.
Sign goodbye on the dotted line…
Do not say why if you do not understand.
By now I guess you never will.
I have spent a life-time running up that hill
And for what?
My lot is broken pieces;
Memories of people’s speeches.
The lies they told,
I am already cold,
To the ways of humanity.
Long time been a ghost.
I save today for a better time....
#sadness
#dark
#TruthOfLife
#tragedy
#despair
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nikkimoe
Poem Published
8th May 2019 11:48pm
8th May 2019 11:48pm
Glass Splinters
I cannot unsee it
thus it's there
in the forefront
it comes in blinks
staying just long enough
to be felt and thought about
closing my eyes, hanging my head
stops nothing so I stare into space
absorbing the anxiety around me
seeing it again and again
oh the things that get embedded.
thus it's there
in the forefront
it comes in blinks
staying just long enough
to be felt and thought about
closing my eyes, hanging my head
stops nothing so I stare into space
absorbing the anxiety around me
seeing it again and again
oh the things that get embedded.
#anxiety
#tragedy
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Pepperdust
Poem Published
2nd May 2019 2:59pm
2nd May 2019 2:59pm
The girl in the room
Words don't matter when pervertion deafens your soul.
I said and repeated "no, please, no" but I never screamed.
Maybe I should have, even though I think it would make no difference. Sick bastards never listen. Or maybe they do, but I guess they like making us beg, a fucked up way to feel powerful.
So I became silence, nothing on my head but my blood flowing, my mouth as a graveyard of my emotions, not a single breath escaped as if I was dead under your movements, that as the only sound in that dark room. I think there was a window there somewhere allowing the moonlight in...
I said and repeated "no, please, no" but I never screamed.
Maybe I should have, even though I think it would make no difference. Sick bastards never listen. Or maybe they do, but I guess they like making us beg, a fucked up way to feel powerful.
So I became silence, nothing on my head but my blood flowing, my mouth as a graveyard of my emotions, not a single breath escaped as if I was dead under your movements, that as the only sound in that dark room. I think there was a window there somewhere allowing the moonlight in...
#dark
#abuse
#silence
#tragedy
#hurt
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HadesRising
Bumped 25th Apr 2019 4:31am
24th Nov 2017 1:32am
24th Nov 2017 1:32am
F.E.A.S.T
I rip at the flesh and gnaw on the bone
The numbness dissolving things we call home
Agonizing prophets, knife in the back
You paint me with lies so at least paint me black
Fight or flight, day to night
Living with another lie
Feasting once again
Every fucking year
At least let me die
Suffering for nothing
Take whatever comes
Feasting, feasting
F.E.A.S.T
I welcome the spirits of yesteryear
Maggots remain within everything you fear
Devour the rancid scraps that I choose ...
The numbness dissolving things we call home
Agonizing prophets, knife in the back
You paint me with lies so at least paint me black
Fight or flight, day to night
Living with another lie
Feasting once again
Every fucking year
At least let me die
Suffering for nothing
Take whatever comes
Feasting, feasting
F.E.A.S.T
I welcome the spirits of yesteryear
Maggots remain within everything you fear
Devour the rancid scraps that I choose ...
#dark
#shadows
#tragedy
#despair
#suffering
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Ashtal_Leb_Azure
Poem Published
13th Apr 2019 7:25am
13th Apr 2019 7:25am
In here. Only dark
Gloomy and dark.
sealed by wicked people.
I found myself isolated inside a box
It's lonely, it's cold
Shivered from the thunderous roar
I can hear the rain pour.
Drip. Drip. Drip
It violently drips.
I feel lonely once more.
It's tight, It's small.
I can't go anywhere,
to where light is
Feeling the small tremors underneath
I didn't mind it.
No, I didn't mind everything.
My life is never changing.
Light is hard to possess
Warm is hard to hold
Changing is hard to dream ...
sealed by wicked people.
I found myself isolated inside a box
It's lonely, it's cold
Shivered from the thunderous roar
I can hear the rain pour.
Drip. Drip. Drip
It violently drips.
I feel lonely once more.
It's tight, It's small.
I can't go anywhere,
to where light is
Feeling the small tremors underneath
I didn't mind it.
No, I didn't mind everything.
My life is never changing.
Light is hard to possess
Warm is hard to hold
Changing is hard to dream ...
#sadness
#loneliness
#dark
#death
#tragedy
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MyPain
Poem Published
11th Apr 2019 1:06am
11th Apr 2019 1:06am
Goodbye
#dark
#death
#tragedy #emptiness
#tragedy #emptiness
91 reads
1 Comment
BeautyQueen00
Queen Kawaii
Queen Kawaii
Poem Published
8th Apr 2019 1:09am
8th Apr 2019 1:09am
An ode to Nipsey hussle
Nipsey hussle...
A man of his words...
Black, 30 something year old who ran his own shop...
In south central los angeles.....
he was loved by many...
even though i dont know much about the dude...
he was a good-looking man, so promising yet so full of perspective....
I wish i could prevent this from happening like a detective...
so, tonight as i write this and lay this down..
i hope you find it enchanting all around town....
A man of his words...
Black, 30 something year old who ran his own shop...
In south central los angeles.....
he was loved by many...
even though i dont know much about the dude...
he was a good-looking man, so promising yet so full of perspective....
I wish i could prevent this from happening like a detective...
so, tonight as i write this and lay this down..
i hope you find it enchanting all around town....
#violence
#death
#tragedy
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black_magik_gypsy
Poem Published
6th Apr 2019 8:27pm
6th Apr 2019 8:27pm
In Decay I Dream
In decay I dream under dust and tomb
Strewn about are the bones which housed their gloom
My eyes slumber upon an ancient moon
In the hidden garden where darkness stood
Awake in deep sleep as the nightmares dwell
The brooding fog so forlorn as it fell
Surrounding me as an ivory serpent
Its coils wrapping all that is worthless
Before the fading gleams of moonlight rot
Shadows crawl still in the path of distraught
Within the cold catacombs of lurking clouds
Which hath laid upon thy garden, a shroud
Veiled by such vacancy...
Strewn about are the bones which housed their gloom
My eyes slumber upon an ancient moon
In the hidden garden where darkness stood
Awake in deep sleep as the nightmares dwell
The brooding fog so forlorn as it fell
Surrounding me as an ivory serpent
Its coils wrapping all that is worthless
Before the fading gleams of moonlight rot
Shadows crawl still in the path of distraught
Within the cold catacombs of lurking clouds
Which hath laid upon thy garden, a shroud
Veiled by such vacancy...
#gothic
#scary
#tragedy
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Summerrain75
Poem Published
27th Mar 2019 1:06am
27th Mar 2019 1:06am
An Unfinished Note
You were a shooting star
Who briefly passed through this life
To share your light with us
Not meant to linger here
With the rest of us you left behind
Like a meteor you fell to unknown region of this earth
Swept and cast away in the tides of time
Gone to the netherworld
Without leaving a trace to find you
Your life was an unfinished note in a song that will never be sung
A masterpiece of art that will never be exhibited in the hallways of time
A face that will not be remembered by your youngest child in his earliest memory ...
Who briefly passed through this life
To share your light with us
Not meant to linger here
With the rest of us you left behind
Like a meteor you fell to unknown region of this earth
Swept and cast away in the tides of time
Gone to the netherworld
Without leaving a trace to find you
Your life was an unfinished note in a song that will never be sung
A masterpiece of art that will never be exhibited in the hallways of time
A face that will not be remembered by your youngest child in his earliest memory ...
#brother
#tragedy
#separation
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