Missing You
In gratitude for mercy, I softly tread,
For all that we cherished, the words left unsaid.
Comforted by knowing you held me so dear,
Our laughter still echoes, though you're no longer here.
As I sit in reflection, the memories flow,
The weight of your absence, a heavy undertow.
Yet in sorrow, I find strength, a promise divine,
That one day in...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Grief, the Hidden DoorGrief is not a wound.
It is a door...
Hidden behind the tapestry
We spent a life weaving.
It opens...
When we can no longer lie....
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Categories:
bereavement, farewell, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
THE TOMB OF MIRRORSThere’s this voice that echoes inside of me,in the pit of my soul
He has long sharp nails, with which he tears down the walls of my heart,peice by piece
Every time my foot steps on the grass, greener than the day before
He pulls me down into the Earth
And I am submerged into the sea
Filled with...
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Categories:
anxiety, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Justice ,deniedWith bloody hands, rusty hair and a dammed soul
I walked out ,stepping on the rotten meat
As my lungs struggled to breathe down the fragrance of the crime that I had committed
Blue and white lights flashed my eyes
And a bullet pierced through my cranium
Punishing me for the crimes I had not committed,
My lips...
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Categories:
abuse, bereavement, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
On Returning Leftover Peppermint to My NeighborDigestion liquesces peppermint. I chew
the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste
when stillness is an afterthought.
Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card.
Winds seem to bank and then burst through a window
in a venetian blind-slatted sunshine;
bars slit across you on the floor.
Strangers make front entrances where shoes scuff the rug.
The briefest, jagged arcs...
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Categories:
bereavement, community, confusion, death
Form: Free verse
Shady WayYour cheeks are tending to the ground
And I’m so slow today
Look at the memory I’ve found
Before it flies away
The lifeline furrow on your palm
Runs through the hills and dales
Inside the storm it could be calm
Despite the blowing gales
My glasses gleam with gold and brown
I have to go again
I cannot see what time is now
Could be...
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Categories:
bereavement, together, true love,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Mates ForeverSoulmates Forever
For my husband, my best friend, my always
We met when the world was still wide and new,
In hallways of lockers and laughter and blue.
Just kids finding jokes in the folds of the day,
Not knowing love had already found its way.
Through dances and dreams, through growing and years,
Through triumphs and troubles and teenage tears—
We stayed...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, heartbroken, husband,
Form: Free verse
Flipping Between Parallel Sides
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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Categories:
angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Lyric
NOT HOLDING HANDS
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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Categories:
bereavement, death, emotions, mom,
Form: Free verse
The Bell Tower That Leaned InI. 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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Categories:
allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Neatness and GodlinessEvery 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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Categories:
bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,
Form: Free verse
There'll Be A PlaceMy 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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Categories:
bereavement, loss, love, together,
Form: Rhyme
The Battles Of A Bad Day's Night
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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Categories:
art, bereavement, crazy, day,
Form: Rhyme
How should a man bow?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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Categories:
analogy, bereavement, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The final prayer
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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Categories:
bereavement, betrayal, birth, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Bereavement Poems
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