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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Oliver Cocks
Oliver Cocks
Poem Published
Today 4:47am
Today 4:47am
Tony's Horror
On the day of horror,
Tony was teaching at MIT.
“Can anyone tell me the answer?
No? How astonishing!
Will any of you ever do any work?”
Tony said to his first years
(well, tried not to shout-
they should have done it).
They gaped at him, mostly.
Some scowled.
A couple looked away.
“You don’t get a Fields Medal
from doing nothing.
If you want to achieve what I have,
you’ll need to work.
Not play online chess.
Looking at you, Tia.”
Tia frowned, closed her...
Tony was teaching at MIT.
“Can anyone tell me the answer?
No? How astonishing!
Will any of you ever do any work?”
Tony said to his first years
(well, tried not to shout-
they should have done it).
They gaped at him, mostly.
Some scowled.
A couple looked away.
“You don’t get a Fields Medal
from doing nothing.
If you want to achieve what I have,
you’ll need to work.
Not play online chess.
Looking at you, Tia.”
Tia frowned, closed her...
#dark
#death
#family
#love
#sadness
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:53pm
Yesterday 11:53pm
it feels like...
It's the dry grass crackle
under bare feet
in the middle of summer
It's lightning cracking
on an empty horizon
lighting up the world
It's the tap tap tap of rain
on an unseen window
on a gloomy day
It's the smell of rot
when the storm stays too long
and the weeds bloom as the grass dies
It's the feeling of my fingernails
worrying a scab on my arm
that I refuse to let heal
It's eyes closed against
the beauty of today because
the ugly tells me I don't deserve it
...
under bare feet
in the middle of summer
It's lightning cracking
on an empty horizon
lighting up the world
It's the tap tap tap of rain
on an unseen window
on a gloomy day
It's the smell of rot
when the storm stays too long
and the weeds bloom as the grass dies
It's the feeling of my fingernails
worrying a scab on my arm
that I refuse to let heal
It's eyes closed against
the beauty of today because
the ugly tells me I don't deserve it
...
#apathy
#depression
#grief #sadness
#grief #sadness
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4 Comments
oldmanG
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:24pm
Yesterday 10:24pm
Stop and Listen
Stop collaborate listen
IVF creates new ones
Family starving for a little life
She can’t do what her body requires
Doctor says this can spark a life
Back in the legislature man says
Why do IVF when we are all in pro life
Congressman or congresswoman says
I can rule your life and death until you’re no more
Momma just wanting to Mother
She just can’t deliver little ones
Without a little help welcome modern health
Living in a Red State trying to deliver voters...
IVF creates new ones
Family starving for a little life
She can’t do what her body requires
Doctor says this can spark a life
Back in the legislature man says
Why do IVF when we are all in pro life
Congressman or congresswoman says
I can rule your life and death until you’re no more
Momma just wanting to Mother
She just can’t deliver little ones
Without a little help welcome modern health
Living in a Red State trying to deliver voters...
#frustration
#morality
#relationships #sadness
#relationships #sadness
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:39pm
Yesterday 7:39pm
Lost My Love
I'm at a loss
I can't come up for air
The celebrations aren't the same without you there
I stay quiet but I want to scream
The circle was broken the absence is felt
Please help me cope
Another death another loss
I can't take what's been taken away
It's just a task to make it day to day
I feel like I'm losing my mind
I feel all alone
I sit in silence
Does anybody else feel this at all?
I can't come up for air
The celebrations aren't the same without you there
I stay quiet but I want to scream
The circle was broken the absence is felt
Please help me cope
Another death another loss
I can't take what's been taken away
It's just a task to make it day to day
I feel like I'm losing my mind
I feel all alone
I sit in silence
Does anybody else feel this at all?
#death
#emptiness
#IMissYou
#loneliness
#sadness
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6 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:33pm
Yesterday 7:33pm
That's All I Ask
If I could just hold you one last time
If I could just hear your voice again
Just to hear you say my name
Just to hold your hand as we watch the setting sun
The hands of the world reached out to you
But you were just somewhere else
We all tried to save you
But you were someone else
I want to cling to the old, familiar and the free
But when I reached for you it was no longer there for me
I can't remember a day when the news wasn't there
Knowing that your gone is our burden to bare
I only saw black that day
Will I ever...
If I could just hear your voice again
Just to hear you say my name
Just to hold your hand as we watch the setting sun
The hands of the world reached out to you
But you were just somewhere else
We all tried to save you
But you were someone else
I want to cling to the old, familiar and the free
But when I reached for you it was no longer there for me
I can't remember a day when the news wasn't there
Knowing that your gone is our burden to bare
I only saw black that day
Will I ever...
#grief
#heartbroken
#love
#memories
#sadness
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rubyredheart
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:49pm
Yesterday 5:49pm
Sung by These Falling Waters
Tunes expressing how
This heart of sorrow
holds captive just now
Smiles meant for you
Shine your sun-rays
Into my tearful days
Say you might love me
Somehow Someway
lonely more
with this sore
ache that clenches tightly
in my fragile chest
Empty
without your touch
Weeping
without your voice
Soften this sorrow
With a “maybe
someday a tomorrow”
Have you no hope to quiet
This woeful weeping?
Tears shed for want
of your being
in my everyday
in every way
I...
This heart of sorrow
holds captive just now
Smiles meant for you
Shine your sun-rays
Into my tearful days
Say you might love me
Somehow Someway
lonely more
with this sore
ache that clenches tightly
in my fragile chest
Empty
without your touch
Weeping
without your voice
Soften this sorrow
With a “maybe
someday a tomorrow”
Have you no hope to quiet
This woeful weeping?
Tears shed for want
of your being
in my everyday
in every way
I...
#heartbroken
#IMissYou
#sadness
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ArnoMalan1
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 3:35pm
1st Dec 2024 3:35pm
Pause, rewind and replay
Marked by an endless kiss
followed by unspoken bliss
each day another near miss
sweet nothing, is all it is
Smile the pretence all away
hide the hurt walked away
wish to God I can not stay
I relive this picture every day
Pause, rewind and replay...
It's so hard to let this go
yes replaced by the no
wished so much it isn't so
but this is all I'll ever know.
Smile the pretence all away
hide the hurt walked away
wish to God I can not stay
I relive this picture every day
Pause, rewind and...
followed by unspoken bliss
each day another near miss
sweet nothing, is all it is
Smile the pretence all away
hide the hurt walked away
wish to God I can not stay
I relive this picture every day
Pause, rewind and replay...
It's so hard to let this go
yes replaced by the no
wished so much it isn't so
but this is all I'll ever know.
Smile the pretence all away
hide the hurt walked away
wish to God I can not stay
I relive this picture every day
Pause, rewind and...
#sadness
#shame
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rksingh
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 10:26am
1st Dec 2024 10:26am
Explorations
Too small to explore
the sea of the unknown:
island existence
breathing hell of darkness
dreading hungry excursions
R K Singh
the sea of the unknown:
island existence
breathing hell of darkness
dreading hungry excursions
R K Singh
#anxiety
#confusion
#despair
#fear
#sadness
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goodwolf1966
jimmy
jimmy
Poem Published
30th Nov 2024 2:41am
30th Nov 2024 2:41am
question loneliness
i have
begun to
question
loneliness,
rearrange
my thoughts,
whether
light day
or dark
of night,
i come
up with
the same
problems,
because
there is
no one
here to
help me
understand.
begun to
question
loneliness,
rearrange
my thoughts,
whether
light day
or dark
of night,
i come
up with
the same
problems,
because
there is
no one
here to
help me
understand.
#confusion
#disappointment
#frustration
#loneliness
#sadness
73 reads
7 Comments
Lilliputian
Poem Published
29th Nov 2024 11:05pm
29th Nov 2024 11:05pm
My Blues
When my light turns dim,
My blues take the shine off my eyes,
Glumness fills me
And delight becomes a myth.
When I cast her in a bin,
My sadness weeps
Crawling back to me
And I cradle her in my arms.
Buried together in a pit,
She seeks my aching tears,
Wiping them only to break me
Once again, her heavy weight suffocates.
And I let her be.
My blues take the shine off my eyes,
Glumness fills me
And delight becomes a myth.
When I cast her in a bin,
My sadness weeps
Crawling back to me
And I cradle her in my arms.
Buried together in a pit,
She seeks my aching tears,
Wiping them only to break me
Once again, her heavy weight suffocates.
And I let her be.
#sadness
49 reads
missjem56
Poem Published
29th Nov 2024 5:22pm
29th Nov 2024 5:22pm
The Time Fairy
Her lifeless body
Lay stricken
Upon the bell tower
Her wings
Frayed, and broken
Her words lay on her dying lips
Unspoken
Chasing ghosts
Vanquished dreams
Lost hope
And a fragile heart
Beating a tentative beat
Delicate tears
Caress the saddened soul
No longer whole
Her lifeless body
Still upon the bell tower
Awaiting a burial of sorts
Time moved forward
The hands of the clock
Together, cast her asunder
She was lost to time
Yet became part of it
As her silken...
Lay stricken
Upon the bell tower
Her wings
Frayed, and broken
Her words lay on her dying lips
Unspoken
Chasing ghosts
Vanquished dreams
Lost hope
And a fragile heart
Beating a tentative beat
Delicate tears
Caress the saddened soul
No longer whole
Her lifeless body
Still upon the bell tower
Awaiting a burial of sorts
Time moved forward
The hands of the clock
Together, cast her asunder
She was lost to time
Yet became part of it
As her silken...
#fairies
#LifeAsAWriter
#sadness #tragedy
#sadness #tragedy
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poetic_gawdess
Poem Published
29th Nov 2024 4:30am
29th Nov 2024 4:30am
Submission.
Well, it’s finally happened.
I’m officially Life’s bitch.
Its plan to dig its claws into me,
went without a hitch.
Its firm grasp only tightening,
and
won’t let me go,
like a blood binding contract.
it took ownership of my tattered soul.
Why not someone else?
I have literally nothing to offer.
I try to do good, keep my head down,
living a mundane life,
so why bother?
I’ve felt the heaviness on my soul
from such a tender age..
how foolish of me to think I’d leave this lifetime ...
I’m officially Life’s bitch.
Its plan to dig its claws into me,
went without a hitch.
Its firm grasp only tightening,
and
won’t let me go,
like a blood binding contract.
it took ownership of my tattered soul.
Why not someone else?
I have literally nothing to offer.
I try to do good, keep my head down,
living a mundane life,
so why bother?
I’ve felt the heaviness on my soul
from such a tender age..
how foolish of me to think I’d leave this lifetime ...
#acceptance
#honesty
#sadness
#TruthOfLife
#wisdom
79 reads
4 Comments
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