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The Grieving Mother
I wasn’t asked if I was ready No answers to my “Why?” I had only just said hello When I was forced to say goodbye....

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement, children, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unadorned
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Categories: bereaved, death, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Bereaved Avenges Herself against a Selfish Lover
I may love you, once love is all I have; someday, with tears I'll wash away your grave: till then I curse you since you died at last, leaving me broke, alone, going nowhere fast. Despite young Cupid, I won't bring you flowers; or bathe you in dripping-wet, sparkling showers of worship; or grant you the gold of chaise, that gilts...

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Categories: bereaved, allusion, betrayal, desire, extended
Form: Heroic Couplet
Six Years
M' Sweetheart, after six long years of waiting I have realized you will not come back again. O, Heavens! Burn with sorrow and bright lightning For in your Auspices, the better Part of Me Doth Still Abide No pain, no sorrow, can keep you with me, Though I try, Longing after hopes That should not be Espoused Or else I'll drown In the Very Ocean of...

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement, best friend, longing,
Form: Free verse
Bereavement
If splay open wide my heart I could, to find the nexus of pain and agony: Excise that particular node I would – Reave and plunder it oh so mightily! Sever, cauterise, amputate the point from which this eternal sorrow stems. Cleave, carve and hack away at the joint where the dire anguish around it bends. If these excruciating emotions I can banish, Lash...

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement, death, heartbroken, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sleazy Funeral Directors
Having known scoundrels, like these up close, Happily using your monies on which to dine Family coffers stuffed, be they duly accursed! High cost yes,your money buys them fine wine. Why stand you chairlesss,at graveside service, As these pretentious mongrels at you,widely smile. Are you not aware of their most greedy malice? You, the mourning,blind,unaware of their unholy guile. Let serving all the...

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Categories: bereaved, funeral,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bereaved
“Though grief burdens one, it may lessen in time. But like an ember it keeps smoldering and from time to time, may grow into flames, burning inside” ...

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Categories: bereaved, angst, death, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bereaved
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. Jandy Nelson What I scribe assists and soothes the pain. Conceal my thoughts and jam in my silence. A sense of agony overwhelms you to complain.  Hardships from upshots or few guidance. And the sorrow of collapse wager plain. I cannot let...

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Categories: bereaved, angst, bereavement, confusion, fate,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member Bereaved
Sweeping your footprints why do you lay strewn? Each dust hums your sweet harmonious tune. Will you, dear, if possible, come back soon...? Sweeping your footprints why do you lay strewn? You have been, darling, my life's greatest boon. Weren't we joyous till the previous noon? Sweeping your footprints why do you lay strewn? Each dust hums your sweet harmonious tune. Why you're...

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement,
Form: Triolet
Bereaved
Waking up not knowing how to feel A friend that I haven’t known for years The unexpected news not seeming real Sadness but vacant of tears Not wanting to stay in, but knowing I will A moment of time personified by my deepest fears Waking up not knowing how to feel Time passes, unlike the pain The world is...

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bereaved
The ice-cold sun was hid Behind a bank of clouds that came unbid, Ugly freezing winds blew Birds felt it all and flew No place to rest, they knew. The black cypress did their shelter forbid. Beneath, lanes clearly showed All tombs and snow covered the dead's abode. Alas, their days were timed, Their heavy hurdles climbed, Their dirges were long chimed, In heaven's eternity,...

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Remembering Them
You heard it ring a thousand times before However, this time it seemed like something more You dreaded picking up the phone As if you knew the unknown After that dreaded phone call You just wanted to fall A piece of your heart empty You didn’t want others pity God took you breaking us apart While reaching in and...

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Categories: bereaved, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bereaved
It shall always remain such a shame, That even though in a way we were all to blame. We were not there, even at the very end of you Little to none tried to help with what you were going through. It was never because we did not care, Only because we could not always be there. Then again, seemed you...

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Categories: bereaved, angst, bereavement, death, death
Form: Free verse
The Bereaved Employee
Quick to forget the Off-Duty Grant That makes bosses not rant Easily treating An Observer, To a levity of A Grieving Server All stops are boldly pulled out Like irritable errors struck out, All restrictions kicked aside Or left to their time bide! It’s a being who has glimpsed obligations Vain Boss would never understand, Their delayed handling with implications He might at last not...

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Categories: bereaved, anxiety, business, career, death,
Form: Rhyme
When You Finally Come Around
When your words were sweet and real, Spurting love, care and heed. You were in love, head over heel. Hiding the fondness beneath, Love blossoming into a tree on a heath. Alas, the tree began to wither, Dry up and lose all the vigour. For there was no more the love, That watered the roots from the cove. The bark now turned brown Full of...

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Categories: bereaved, 12th grade, bereavement, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

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