In Stars AboveYou left this world a better place
Your soul is purest light solid gold
No longer concerned with human race
Up above beyond the earthly trolls
White wind blows in your gentle kiss
Butterfly wings remind me of you
In red heart it’s you we miss
As we sit staring at sky black or blue
In stars above you thrive my love
No lavender...
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Categories:
appreciation, bereavement, blue, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
The WormwoodI have heard of it before, but I never knew what it was until I walk through the door, I thought it was a wood made of special ink and it cast a strange dye in the sky and it tells you when you are going to die, but that theory is not true because...
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Categories:
africa, age, america, bereavement,
Form: Narrative
Hardest GoodbyeYou lit up the room,
Raising the vibe,
Made sure that you always,
Protected your tribe.
Way too young to leave,
This shouldn't be true,
Never once did I imagine,
Doing life without you.
Such a kind soul,
Through and through,
A devastating loss to so many,
Who knew and loved you.
My hearts been torn apart,
Leaving an aching scar,
You're the hardest goodbye,
I've said so far...
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Categories:
bereavement, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Icicles for TearsMemories tattoo my brain like an artist
I miss loved ones passed and the last
Time I saw each one is frozen
Like icicle tears swelling brown eyes
Last time I saw her alive she
Was full of joy eating favorite foods
Planning her life despite breast cancer
Nothing stopped her from dreaming
Not even death
Final time I...
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Categories:
bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Shore that's Feared by DeathMy home is not of brick and stone
Nor has it laid foundations on
The filthy soil of earth, no mine
Is somewhere far beyond the sky.
It sits upon the clouds of white
And floats amidst the open skies.
Its walls of gem and gates of gold
Do hide a throne, I...
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Categories:
bereavement, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
bereavement, betrayal, word play,
Form: Free verse
He took so many innocents livesHe Choose to Grow Weak
Could you help me understand the complexities of our actions? When joy fills our hearts, we radiate positivity, but when sadness washes over us, it feels like an ache that permeates our very being (Proverb 17:22).
How can we support you if we remain in the dark about your feelings? You often...
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Categories:
bereavement, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse
as we metamorphosedean meat-mad @impossible3
rob'in'/hood;
all get free lunches 1week
says impossible3 need2learn: responsibility
clean: building lab/gym 3decas old
when meat-looks mattered
laze lock/chains (nokey)
dust!dirt!choke!cough!
meat reflex: disgust
hands make meat motions oldstyle
wax on/off, lolz
2of3 sees button red/blue
meat response: excitement
1of3: worried @meatspeak
3of3: trouble/warn/no
2of3: meat-weak presses red/blue quick
3beepLOUD
meat reflex: alarm/worried/fear
floorMOVE
meatmoves: 2of3falls
WATER (w/out floor)
meat word: stagnant/gross/nasty
meat memory: ocean/sea/brine/salt/brackish
2of3 splash/swim/paddle
1of3 reach/grab/help
2of3: pain/blood/agony
1of3 recall:...
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Categories:
bereavement, change, death, moving
Form: Free verse
No one compares to youNo one compares (to you)
I cry myself to sleep almost every night
since you took my heart away
I try to tell myself... that it's alright
I can live for one more day
Everywhere I go, things remind me of you
the whispers on the breeze,
My sorrow paralyzes, what can I do?
it brings me to my knees
Chorus
There's no solace in...
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Categories:
bereavement, heartbreak, longing, lost
Form: Lyric
Still I Rise AgainI have walked through the hush of goodbyes,
where silence roared louder than grief,
where memories clung like shadows,
and love became a thief.
I lost not just them, but parts of me—
echoes of laughter, pieces of light.
My soul wore mourning like a second skin,
and daybreak blurred into night.
I reached for hands that let me fall,
poured love into a...
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Categories:
appreciation, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Sympathies
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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Categories:
12th grade, bereavement, break
Form: Free verse
BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902
Categories:
allegory, allusion, art, bereavement,
Form: Ekphrasis
***After sinking into oblivion
Only the fractured soul
Knows your sorrows
Your feeble hopes
Your fervent battles
When stepping outside yourself
You see a world so big
When alone
Everything is so small
Covered with a thick slice of darkness
In this inner chaos
You owe nothing but yourself
That once belonged
To his anxious dream
Now, a precious memory
That belongs only to you
Engulfing the...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Unborn MeWhere am I?
Don't tell me I'm in Nigeria
Did I tell you I want to be born here
Is this wickedness or something.
Where am I?
Why Africa why not the world?
Why subject me to the colonial masters
Why making me a slave to westerners.
Where am I?
Why the world why not Heaven?
Is this mere wickedness or Ignorance?
Why bring me to...
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Categories:
analogy, anger, bereavement, birth,
Form: Free verse
Intrusive Thoughts
Written: June 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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The Phantom Choir
In the quiescence of last Sunday,
Prophecy heralded the hour past two,
I heard a whisper at hibiscus dawn—
a seamless voice I swore I always knew.
In blissful flutter—it said night was wide,
Chrysalis sorrow stirs...
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Categories:
bereavement, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Bereavement Poems
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