1. Broken
Broken in spirit. Broken in heart.
Broken in pieces just falling apart.
Emotional pain. Deep in despair.
No one to love and no one who cares.
Poems about Sadness
Poems about Being Sad
Feeling sad is no crime although the world might wish you to think so. All the feelings in the world never did anybody any harm. It is our feelings that make us human and connect us to the rest of humanity. When you feel sad, it is important to give yourself permission to feel the sadness. Share your feelings with someone who has the sensitivity to give you the space to let the feeling fully be felt. Only then can you begin to let go.
29 Poems that Capture the Pain and Suffering of Sadness
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2. The Flower That Smiles To-day
Famous Poem
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies. -
3. The Lesson
Famous Poem
My cot was down by a cypress grove,
And I sat by my window the whole night long,
And heard well up from the deep dark wood
A mocking-bird's passionate song. -
4. The Rainy Day
Famous Poem
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall, -
5. Underwater
I can't hear the noises around me
Over the silent voices inside my head.
I don't feel the ache that should come
When I laugh with my friends. -
6. The Comfort Of Pain
Live with it
long enough
and pain begins
to feel familiar, -
7. Forgotten Dreams
In a silent world of forgotten dreams,
Where disappointments and heartaches lie.
A world where hopes and dreams have died
And bid their last goodbye. -
8. We Wear The Mask
Famous Poem
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,Featured Shared StoryA wonderful poem Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote many years ago, after slavery was abolished.
How it must have hurt to know his parents had been slaves...
Imagine the pain that slavery... -
9. Tulips
Famous Poem
The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. -
10. The Face In The Mirror
What do you see when you look into a mirror?
Do you see a face of grace
or the belief of grief?
Do you see a blessing of success -
11. Who Am I?
Famous Poem
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny. -
12. Reality
Your crimson tears stay flowing,
But your singing voice stays calm,
It's like you're catching raindrops,
They keep their shape while resting in your palms. -
13. I Sit And Look Out
Famous Poem
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done; -
14. I Wish, I Dream
I wish I could stop crying,
I wish I didn't have to try.
On the outside I'm smiling,
But inside I'm dying,Featured Shared StoryMy smile is fake...
I feel like dying through the darkness...
I try to be brave, but no...
I need friends...but I don't...
I always walk alone...in school and anywhere...
I feel like an... -
15. Sometimes I Get Lonely
Sometimes I get lonely
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
Always connecting but not connected
Featured Shared StoryBefore Covid hit, I was very happy living my 11-year-old life, but when it did, well I felt very lonely. I relate to this poem so much because everything described (and more) is exactly how I...
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16. The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver
Famous Poem
"Son," said my mother,
When I was knee-high,
"you've need of clothes to cover you,
and not a rag have I.Featured Shared StoryThe poem is a short, sweet, and precise journey of a great son-mother relationship. It takes one through the sacred and holy shares of time given by a mother in dedication to her child. The...
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17. Aerialist
Famous Poem
Each night, this adroit young lady
Lies among sheets
Shredded fine as snowflakes
Until dream takes her body -
18. Skeletons
The welcome mat outside my door
is dusty, old & worn
'cuz people have been entering in
since the day that I was born -
19. Falling From Darkness
Falling from darkness
To a place I don't know,
Everything's moving with no place to go.
I feel so alone and scared.Featured Shared StoryI can really relate to this poem. I have depression, and there will be days where I just don't want to get out of bed. I'll just cry for no reason sometimes. There is also days where...
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20. Hope Behind The Shadows Of Pain
In some people's pretty eyes
There's a great painful disguise,
Disguise that dressed their lonely heart
With devastating cuts that ever hurt.
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