Bereavement Poems | Examples of Bereavement Poetry

When the walls of my world crumble right in, I slip through a portal to begin Again in a softer place, where the veil is thin - On this other side I always win. Some call it dreaming, some call it flight, But I call it flipping, when strife is too tight. Changing lanes sure beats a road-rage fight, I can switch...

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Why couldn't I hold your hand? You ask Yourself in golden bowers of infinity - Was it because he felt too old to do it? It was too infantile an act to make? Questions! Always questions! It is the time. And I tear myself away from this I should not defile the memory Of the dead, or besmerch their truth - If truth...

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I. The Pastor’s Hand At dawn’s brittle cusp— he climbs, each step a nail in time’s coffin breath ragged a Psalm torn mid-hymn. The rope tastes of incense and myrrh— Liberty’s fracture braided through its fibers a wound that never quite...

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Every picture I’ve seen of you as a child, You wear your hair in plaits. A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids Falling down on each shoulder. A maypole’s dream. You would do your best to wash them when you could, When shampoo was available, Or even in the single, small bathroom. You would vigorously scrub your face too With...

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My soul’s a shell with wind of time That blows inside forever The hollow roar of waves it hides Although its calm as ever My mind’s a desolated street To fields of green and meadows It leads but not a face I meet Beneath the tangled shadows Gone is the 16 Marroway Gone is the Jansel Square The garden where Pippa played Has vanished in...

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If instinct could alert beforehand; Reflecting moments as all stand... The ought process of echoing mind, For rights to get wrongs tightly bind- Assign each voice unto confident tears, Without been paired with fearful glares. That, would make a day so bleak off sorrow, And elegant enough to seek anew cum morrow. If patience could read through broken glass... Flexing with a system depicted...

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Do insects kneel at the mire of a stronger foe? Do pages turn themselves in fear of the readers will? Do the stars flicker in panic from the watcher? Does time relieve itself at thought of the forgotten? Why then should a man created with the same flesh, blood & strength of the savior bow to such...

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On that day, the heavens split in silence, and from the void descended a clock, not of metal, not of clay, but of time’s very flesh, beating between us like a heart slowly fading. I looked upon it without fear, because I knew; endings do not arrive with cries, but with a silence that weighs heavier than any unspoken word. You were fire, and I, merely a candle burning. I...

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Four and a half years ago we lost a fine poet, a knightly gentleman, and a friend to many of us. I'm reposting my tribute to him today. Warrior is an adjective used for a hero or a knight I knew one, briefly, whose wings have taken flight Not just a fine poet was John,...

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I feel life breaking a glass, any glass Or screaming at anyone with or without cause For now, my breath and tears find no rest, Seething on a bomb of fury, time claims a place For rage piercing through my gut too deep... I never knew he has gone beyond the stars My soul hemorrhaged, my innocence vandalized-- Please tell me this...

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I don’t mind failing If it's only me graded If my son is off the table Failing my family Nothing can be worse Blame my weakness Curses have limits on high Depends on the vantage point Failure descends to feed Looking for a pearl in my meat Humans don’t eat their children Like the news say they do Hamster moms do it with ease Blindly gnoshing on...

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Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch delivered me back in the dark shadows and the underbelly of the web, where impossible mission to differentiate the outer limits cast by edge of night essentially rendering a twilight zone where obscured criminal activity clear as day in retrospect, versus earlier this month when yours truly gung ho obediently got a...

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How do you process when all is a blur? How can I take in the fact that you're no longer there? Yesterday was normal. Well, as far as normal goes. What will tomorrow bring? Nobody knows! Not so long ago, I thought I knew my path ahead. Now everything has changed and it has vanished instead! I was a carer. My...

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There’s a song without music I hum While I wait for your call every night And the lyrics that usually come “You’re my everything, you’re the light” But the rest I’ve forgotten, exept That together-forever trope And of course there were tears I wept And most likely, the blessings of hope Though it all may not matter this time But it does, even...

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The scars they don't see Are the ones filled with the most painful memories The ones you don't have to touch for them to hurt Our bodies are permanent scars A reminder of what was once ours Now the use to start wars They made it our prison of skin and bones Condemning us to a life where silence...

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