Sad Poems for Free

• Although Consumed by Fury, You Still Loved Us
• At Odds of the Night My Sister Irene and I
• Caitlynn
• David2
• Evil Has No Easy Explanation
• Felicia2
• I Had a Rough Time with Three Kids by Myself
• I Hate You, Dad, for What You Did
• It Wasn't Over When You Died
• Memories of Life at Home
• The Pain Will Never Go Away
• What Do You Do When Your Mother Is Crazy
• You Told Me in a Dream You Always Loved Me

Breaking Up

• After You're Gone
• Although Our Love Is Over, It Remains
• Goodbye, My Love, the Object of My Fury
• Hold Me to Your Willing Heart
• How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes
• I Didn't Get a Chance to Say I Love You
• I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold
• I Don't Understand What Happened to Us
• I Feel as Though a Dam Within Me's Burst
• I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding
• I Guess You Just Don't Know How Much It Hurts
• I Know I Didn't Do So Well
• I Must Accept But Can't What Cannot Be
• I Want You Back Now that You're Gone
• In Leaving You, I Turned Away from Passion
• My Pride Is like a Castle in the Sand
• Night Comes for Me Throughout the Day
• Our Love's a Place Where I No Longer Live
• Sometimes Dreams Are Better Off Not Real
• Thank You for the Happiness We Shared
• The Apartment Is Dark
• When We Broke Up, You Said You'd Always Love Me
• Why Did He Stop Loving Me
• Why Did You Change
• You Had Me for a Night, Then Turned Away
• You Left Me, but You Cannot Leave My Heart
• You Say You Want to Be Just Friends
• You Used to Make Me Swear Never to Leave You

Death

• Birthdays Do Not End with Death
• Bobbie Jo Can't Be with Us
• Buddy
• Buddy2
• Children Who Die Are Not Really Gone
• Dan Phillips Lived a Golden Life
• Dear Son, I Cannot Speak
• Death Can Also Be a Dance
• Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two
• Each Moment of Love Remains like a Song
• Ed Was a Black and White Paint Quarter Horse
• Every Time I See My Pansies
• Father's Day Without You Is like Music
• Frosty Died Last December
• Her Life Was Not as Glorious as Some
• Here's a Little Ditty
• How Might a Spirit Settle in the Wind
• I Am the Mirror of Our Love
• I Cannot Think You're Not Alive Somewhere
• I Didn't Get a Chance to Say Goodbye
• I Feel as Though My Heart Must Stop with Pain
• I Have One Living Son
• I Miss Your Laughter, Fun, and Gentleness
• I Need to Say Goodbye Although You're with Me
• I Think of You as Watching from
• I Want You to Be Happy When I'm Gone
• In Eighth Grade My Best Friend Passed Away
• In Memory of Those Who Died
• Lee Beaumont Died at Fifteen
• Life Is Beautiful, My Child
• Margarita
• Matthew2
• Mom Lived Her Life for Love of Friends and Family
• My Mother Passed Away on June the Fifth
• Neither Mourn nor Celebrate
• Nicole2
• Nora
• Not a Day Goes By that I Don't Think of You
• On the Death of a Teacher
• One Night I Saw Aaron
• One Year Ago You Died, and Still We Mourn
• Recently I Dreamed I Talked to You
• Rest in Peace, My Loved One, Rest in Peace
• Sarah2
• She Died Soon After Many Years of Pain
• Some Losses Seem to Augur Endless Night
• Souls Do Not Disintegrate and Die
• Such Love of Life Cannot So Quickly Fade
• Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away
• Tears Flow Down to Endless Streams of Sadness
• Thank You for Helping Me to Die
• Thank You for Leaving Me Your Son
• Thank You for Naming Yours after Our Own
• Thank You for Your Recent Contribution
• There Is a Fructifying Sort of Grief
• There Is a Residue of Hope
• There Is No Difference in the Way I Love You
• There Is No Threnody for Utter Darkness
• Theresa
• This Truth Is like a Sea That Has No Shore
• Those Last Few Years of Helpless Pain
• Though This May Be Our Christmas Last
• To a Stillborn Sister
• To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life
• To Say Goodbye's Impossible Forever
• Tyler
• Understand Death Has No Use for Time
• We Are Not Your Children
• We Lost You Just Two Years Ago
• Weep, Weep Within Me, Darling
• When Death Must Come at Christmastime
• Where Did You Go, My Lovely Ones
• You Did Not Merely Die, but You Were Murdered
• You Had the Gift of Happiness
• You Never Thought that It Would End This Way
• You Taught Me How to Love You

Divorce and Broken Families

• Hardly a Day Goes By that I Don't Think of You
• I End My Letters, "Thoughts, Prayers, and Heart"
• I Wish You Could Have Custody of Me
• Last June My Parents Got Divorced
• Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly
• Love Was Not Enough for Us
• Mommy, Please Don't Worry
• My Heart Is like a Symphony
• There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall
• Thirty-Five Years Later He Was Gone
• Twenty-Two Years Later They Were Dead
• We'll Go On, After You

Friendship

• I Would Not Be the Sun to End Your Night
• Just as a Wave Is Lifted by the Shore
• Let Me Be the Bandage for Your Bleeding
• Love Is Patient with a Life

Goodbye and Separation

• After Love and Fear, There's Pride
• After You Leave, I Will Become a Tree
• Although We Have to Be Apart
• Every Day I Think of You and Miss You
• Farewell, My Friend and Confidante
• Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child
• Goodbye, My Lover and My Friend
• How Often when Two People Fall in Love
• I Know It's Only Half a Year
• I Miss You on Your Birthday
• I Miss You Terribly This Day of Love
• I Live Behind Forbidding Walls
• I Miss You Though I Have You Here Beside Me
• I Think About You Most of Every Day
• I Wish that I Could Be with You
• In Daylight You're a Haunting Melody
• In Many Ways, It's as if I Last Saw You
• It Sometimes Seems So Foolish to Persist
• More Love Is in My Heart than Any Heaven
• My Tears Are Not of Loss
• Our Love Is Torn by Miles, Not by Choice
• Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You
• Simple Things Remind Me of Our Love
• The More I Am Away from You
• There Are No Bars to Our Embrace
• This Valentine's I Wish that You Were with Me
• Time and Space Are Dark Grey Clouds
• To Our Loved One Far Away
• We Choose to Stay Together
• We've Just Been Friends, and Now You're Going
• When at the Same Time One Feels Joy and Sorrow
• When We're Together Times Are Good

Illness

• Anne (Autism)
• I Pray for You and Wish I Could Do More
• Mental Illness Doesn't Touch the Soul
• Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
• Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (2) (Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
• The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less (Terminal Illness)
• There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine (Depression)
• Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear (Breast Cancer)

Love

• Although You Are with Someone Else
• Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Face
• Chrysanthemums Are Clear in Morning Air
• Even Though We Fight a Lot, I Love You
• Every Time I See You I Remember
• Everything I've Done, I've Done
• How Can I Have a Fight with My Best Friend
• I Don't Know How We Get into These Fights
• I Find My Happiness in Loving You
• I Know that You Don't Feel for Me
• I Love You as a Valley Loves
• I Love You Even Though I Know
• I Want to Make You Smile as You Make Me
• I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday
• I Wish This Poem Were Pixie Dust
• I Wish You Were My Valentine
• If I Had Married You Instead of Her
• Last Night, Today, Tonight I've Thought of You
• Love Me the Way I've Long Loved You
• Marriage, as a Choice, Requires Choices
• My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall
• My Husband Cheats. I Look the Other Way
• My Love Is Something Separate
• No Matter What Our Troubles, I Still Love You
• No Place to Put My Paramour
• Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill
• She Harbored No Illusions
• The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain
• The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing
• There Has to Be a Way Across These Mountains
• This Will Not Work if You Don't Want to Try
• We Separated Many Years Ago
• When Love Is an Affliction
• You Don't Love Me, But Ah! Do I Love You!

Miscellaneous

• Bones and Fire (The Holocaust)
• Foster Children Move from Place to Place
• Joy Requires One to Be Awake (Depression)
• More Pain Cannot Be Wrung from Those Who Wait (Missing Persons)
• No Christmas for My Children (Homelessness)
• Raping Me Was Fun for Him
• So Did You Die of History

Suicide

• Can't You See? Don't You Care
• I Don't Want to Be Coy
• The Night I Tried to Kill Myself
• There's No Understanding What You Did
• Though I Chose Death Instead of Pointless Pain
• You Killed Yourself and Didn't Think of Me