Poems about Sadness

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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  1. 1. Tulips

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    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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  3. 2. We Wear The Mask

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    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,

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    A 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...

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  5. 3. Who Am I?

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    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.

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  6. 4. The Rainy Day

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    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,

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  7. 5. I Sit And Look Out

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    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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  8. 6. The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver

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    "Son," said my mother,
    When I was knee-high,
    "you've need of clothes to cover you,
    and not a rag have I.

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    The 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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  9. 7. The Flower That Smiles To-day

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    The flower that smiles to-day
    To-morrow dies;
    All that we wish to stay
    Tempts and then flies.

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  10. 8. The Lesson

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    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.

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  11. 9. Aerialist

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    Each night, this adroit young lady
    Lies among sheets
    Shredded fine as snowflakes
    Until dream takes her body

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  12. 10. Disappointment

    • By Coral Leffew
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2009 with permission of the Author.

    No one always tells the truth,
    Everyone likes better to lie,
    No one keeps their promises,
    That they would keep me alive,

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    Man, this really is strong. I can relate to everything. Keep going! I hope you find your smile. Know that your smile never goes unless you want to. You put tears to my eyes with this because...

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  13. 11. Sometimes I Get Lonely

    • By Emily B
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2015 with permission of the Author.

    Sometimes I get lonely
    Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
    Always connecting but not connected

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    Before 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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  14. 12. Skeletons

    • By Debbie Grenier
    • Published by Family Friend Poems June 2011 with permission of the Author.

    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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  15. 13. My Feelings To You

    • By Katarina Alexa Arruda
    • Published by Family Friend Poems June 2007 with permission of the Author.

    Behind your shadow,
    I stand and fall.
    It's a tough battle,
    In which I feel so small.

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    My mom abandoned my brother and me. When I was only 11 and my brother was only 10, I took care of him and my little niece and nephew when my mom went out and did her drugs. She'd tell me...

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  16. 14. Forgotten Dreams

    • By John P. Read
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.

    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.

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  17. 15. Falling From Darkness

    • By Anne Powers
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2011 with permission of the Author.

    Falling from darkness
    To a place I don't know,
    Everything's moving with no place to go.
    I feel so alone and scared.

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    I 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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  18. 16. I Wish, I Dream

    • By Isabel S.
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2015 with permission of the Author.

    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,

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    My 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...

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  19. 17. The Girl I Used To Be

    • By Laura
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2009 with permission of the Author.

    I tell myself that everything's going to be ok,
    that there is no reason for all this pain.
    The time it took to change, the time it took to
    see all those mistakes.

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    You are right. My parents say that I’m a loser. My sister says I am very bad. Nobody in my family likes me because I’m not so good with studies and I’m not as beautiful as everyone, but I...

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  20. 18. The Face In The Mirror

    • By Catherine S. Liebenberg
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2019 with permission of the Author.

    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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  21. 19. The Comfort Of Pain

    • By Blake Auden
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.

    Live with it
    long enough
    and pain begins
    to feel familiar,

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  22. 20. Stress Affects Life

    • By Jody Mark
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2007 with permission of the Author.

    Stress is eating at me every minute and second of the day.
    How do I cope with the horrible effects and make it go away?

    I feel so tired and run down and I don't sleep.

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    Hi everyone! My name is Tanya Joshi and I live in Almora, Uttrakhand. I am in class 11 and I am much obliged with the fact that stress effects life. However, to some extent I think it can be...

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