Sympathy Poems | Examples of Sympathy Poetry

The “Mayday” radio call message was the final voice from Air India 171 flight bound for London seconds before it crashed creating an eternal memorial for 241 gracious beings, with one survivor. My heartfelt sympathy and condolences to every family member, friend, and associate of those who made their ascent into the heavenly realms. May...

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We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar After poem by Olabosoye Wemimo Olaoluwa Love of our land's labour should make us proud; The efforts, time, and energy put through... Well enough to place our pride clear as vowed. But we wear the mask of pain we don't plowed, When slavery is to labourers in blue... Love of our land's labour...

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The hospital machine beeps, My knees weak, the walls are bleak. I'm bitting my cheek whilst the ward doors creak I can hear the children shriek, they look weak through a sneak peak. Explanations are oblique, These children will be me in a week. There's critique of technique for hell week; which is not for the weak. Streaks of blood, dizzy from drugs Staring...

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Wilderness Moonlight stretches into the clearing, intangible ...but offering comfort. She is dying now, pining to be rescued, her breathing jagged, her endurance spent; the bullet had lanced her stomach therefore prolonging agony. Behind her lies a zick-zacked trail of red, splattered death, her own. She had been born a lone wolf but now seeks release in moonlight's arms. A terminal breath, a final...

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Forget about it Don’t think about it It’s not important Put it out of your mind Things I have been told Advice for the lovelorn The bereaved The broken hearted The lonely Your love has gone away forever They have left you behind They have stopped you in your tracks Well meaning friends Want you to forget them Get on with your life But the hole in your...

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They called it progress But the last time I checked Progress can't exist without justice Especially when we still can't breathe even in the afterlife But we will always scream No justice, no peace We can't be silenced Even if we have to use violence You see the politicians using our graves To boost their campaigns 'Forgetting' to mention our names Then Simultaneously putting the blame On...

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There was a man I knew— bitten by ignorance’s venom. All his life, he groped through shadows, searching for cures in the dark— but he found none, until he bit the dust. One day, while spring still painted the world, his sun just beginning to rise, and the stream sparkled...

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Why is Old Age so Lonely? Why is it such a bore? Why because you're getting Old no-one wants you anymore As a Mother and a Wife you give your very best, Perhaps it's just because they think you need a rest. Once children ran riot in your home, Now you'll be really lucky if they pick up...

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You came into my life~ just before the ink dried... in my husband's condolences register. You knew I was grieving, vulnerable, trying to hold my children’s lives together with threads. You listened to my story— the doubled rent, the school fees... I wouldn’t be able to pay— and you acted like you cared. You said our pain was your pain, that you couldn’t...

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Bad Bad Bad Bad Sympathy I Don't Know What Periods Are Like But My Hemorrhoids Are Really Bad Today! TMI No No No No No No No No No... Don't Post This Don't Post This Don't Post This Don't Post This PLEASE! Don't Post This! Try N' Stop Me. (I'm Gonna Get It.) See? I Told You: 5 Posts A Day. Now, You've Wasted That. Uhn-uhhhhhhh................. ...

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i fought it, once. i built whole walls out of promises, out of other people’s hands, out of mornings that almost felt real. but you’re here now, and i am tired. tired of pretending you aren’t the ruin i want. tired of pretending i can be anything else. she deserves better. he deserves better. i am not better. neither are you. you say hello, and it feels like the end and...

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In this white-washed room, time moves slow, Monitors beepin’ soft and low, I got tubes and dreams, but one thing’s clear— The only medicine I need is your voice in my ear. Nurses come and go like the wind through the door, But I’m anchored in a hope I can’t...

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Lost Underneath this despair Lies darkness that loots Loots the humanity inside of me It is darkness I see,not humanity It is darkness that sees me,not humanity Dead Dead Is the light of hope Hope for the light that outshines the darkness Darkness that loots,the sanity inside me Gloom Gloom Fills the heart that loves,that loved In the time of emptiness Gloom is what fills me,gloom is...

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to sew eyes shut, and turn away from the face I see each day a temptation stronger than reason unyielding as the passing seasons my voice is tame, common refrain a quiet whimper, uttered in shame? yet if I form rhyme with which to speak does seeking the truth not set you free? twisting verse into line against the clock's cruel designs an upheaval with...

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Thank you for the card Your letters are stunning The door open just a crack But we know you don’t look back A question or a ruse Ready to leave another bruise I duck and weave against the air But again you are not there So I walk over the words Try to find something unheard Until I find our familiar pattern How did I let...

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