Melancholy Poems
Melancholy sits somewhere between sadness and remembering. These poems linger over what has changed, what cannot be kept, and the beauty that sometimes remains in its absence.
Read slowly through the voices here. Some turn toward a person or place; others let a single image carry the feeling without naming it.
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The broken knight
I once fought proud with a sword in hand, for my duty, for a queen, for this sacred love. My heart was full, my path was clear but all I fou…
Read poem →What i used to be
I miss the guy I used to be— he laughed, he lived, he carried himself. Now he just break, he got hurt, he fall, he doesn't feel anything at …
Read poem →Too late
She smiled like dusk before the rain, hiding oceans made of pain.…
Read poem →Unchoosen flower
I know the pain of not getting picked,…
Read poem →My soul
You were my breath and my morning light,…
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