Poems about Sadness - Page 3

I Sit And Look Out

• By Walt Whitman

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;

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The Ghost

• By Michelle J. Limas
• Published: February 2006

The ghost that hunts, but hasn't died.
He left after only a short time.
Never wrote or so I thought.
Years pass and something tore him a part....

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Skeletons

• By Debbie Grenier
• Published: June 2011

The welcome mat outside my door
is dusty, old & worn
'cuz people have been entering in
since the day that I was born

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Black Velvet Sky

• By Eva
• Published: November 2008

I see death--
It's not black nor white
he's got the star of David wrapped around his wrist
black clouds

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The Face In The Mirror

• By Catherine S. Liebenberg
• Published: March 12, 2019

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

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But When You Left

• By Amber N. Kollmar
• Published: February 2006

Every year for Christmas
our family came together,
the children played
while the parents talked.

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Tulips

• By Sylvia Plath

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.

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