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All Turns Silent in the Meddows
It was the strangest thing I saw that day
A grassy grove and a man shouting mad
I didn't even know what to say
His face dragged down by his eye bags
His feet slept on the dirt, twigs...
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Categories:
cry, death, loss, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Until it's GoneAuthor Dana Redricks
May 2, 2024
You don't miss a good thing until it's gone, when you're all alone and when your loved one is not around to call on the phone. When the tables have...
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Categories:
loss, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Ballad
A Crooked HouseThere was a crooked house
in a crooked part of town
Where you could down a pint or two
and let your life calm down
A place to relax and to de-stress
with friends and glass or two.
Yes we...
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Categories:
appreciation, environment, farewell, loss,
Form: Rhyme
See MeBorn with chains on my wrists,
wondering through life a mist,
lost and forgotten for so long,
in a dark tunnel no light shines through,
growing and learning as life goes on trying
to find myself in this harsh...
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Categories:
loss, beauty, blessing, care, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Awful Word DeathThe sadness of getting lonely, weary and old
is none other than the anguishing thought,
we can't avoid feeling or mentioning at all cost;
daily unrest triggers the awful death word!
Will all frighten when that time comes?...
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Categories:
loss, abuse, age, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
CleanI’m busy again.
Dusting, organizing, mopping.
Everything is clean already.
We already swept up all her old food.
And mopped her muddy paw prints.
It’s clean, it’s clean enough!
They say.
We don’t get less sad.
The house just gets clean.
We remember her...
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Categories:
angst, cat, loss,
Form: Free verse
Another poem about lonelinessI’m so lonesome I could cry
Cry for the pup lost from the pack
He’s gotta find comfort in winter
I’m so lonesome feeling disconnected
Cold comfort, but bees have a hive
Everything is interconnected
I’m so lonesome like Pluto
But, the...
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Categories:
loss, depression, loneliness, lonely, longing,
Form: Free verse
Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
~ Sophocles, Greek Poet
Oh, Love. Where travels thou diminishing shade?
This is not the path I hastily bade
nor the future...
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Categories:
loss, death, depression, emotions, life,
Form: Sonnet
Too LateFar from this place,
Where peace escapes,
He ran, lost in the race,
No one cared for his fate.
Death's beckoning touch,
Drew him near,
His grave, a sanctuary,
Where mercy did appear.
All he had, a distant memory,
A broken story, filled with...
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Categories:
loss, depression, goodbye, grave, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Without youA minute
An hour
A day
A little yellow house
A life envisioned
Previously forgotten
Recently ripped away
Pieces to be collected
Never shared
Healing alone
Fated to wonder
Will there be a day
When the thought of you
Passes without tears...
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Categories:
first love, loss,
Form: Free verse
More Than ThatClever.
In a way only a person can be.
When she would try to sneak our human food.
Loving.
When she would place her paw on my hand.
If she had fingers,
I bet she would clasp them into mine.
They say...
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Categories:
angst, cat, loss,
Form: Free verse
We Go OnHow sweet the sorrow
How deep the void
We go on with one less tale of footprints in the sand beside us.
With wishful eye is cast memory’s glance to those prints found falling forever behind,...
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Categories:
death, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Painful LoveA pain I have
Yes I do
A pain I have just for you
A pain thats like no other
Causing you to shudder
A pain I have
Yes I do
A pain I have caused by you...
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Categories:
depression, hurt, loss, mental
Form: Free verse
Cold April Evenings
Chilling remains haunt
On these cold April evenings
I wish I'd forget
See the stars dancing
Flying among them are dreams
So out of reach now
You inspired hope
Now you are a memory
Holding my heart up
Tears flow like...
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Categories:
loss, hope, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
TracesShe hated that vacuum.
She would run around and try to trip me.
This chore used to take forever and ever…
Now it’s done.
All those traces of fur are gone.
But we had to.
Or else the house would be...
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Categories:
cat, loss,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Loss Poems
Read wonderful loss poetry on the following sub-topics:
baby, brother, brother in law, cat, child, dog, father, friend, horse, mother, pet, stepfather
and more.
Definition | What is Loss in Poetry?
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