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Bereaving Poems - Poems about Bereaving

Grief a New Best Friend
...Grief is so unimaginable painful it cant be explained, To lose someone you love so much is unfeigned, Once grief comes knocking at your front door, Entering your life, It doesn't plan to stay as ......

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Categories: bereaving, death, deep, emotions, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bittersweet Morn
...Dreaded are the darkest nights inside Souls bereaving just before the dawn When new daybreak slowly appears On the horizon of a bittersweet morn, Comes the sun’s rays swift awakening ......

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Categories: bereaving, death, grief, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lay Me Gently Down
...Lay me gently down on a cold wint’ry day, While the fireplace sparkles and blue flames rise A day when the sun shines not to brighten, nay Snow cloud blankets denying warmth to the eye......

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Categories: bereaving, death, feelings, memorial, perspective,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
One Last Poem
...Love spills its final drop as I gasp for another breath From this mortal wound, my afflicted soul is bereaving I've one last poem to pen, in refrain before my death about the brok......

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Categories: bereaving, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Mournfully, My Heart Bleeds
...I've written of great longing while my teardrops flare Rhyming lines of sorrow that were nested in my mind Tomes of poetry that exposed the depth of my despair Now, my heart lies withe......

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Categories: bereaving, lost love,
Form: Quatrain



Caesura
...In lengthening slumberous reposes lies Dickens' sterling pen under bluish skies; And through them gloats deathless sun, Taunting all that under his embers burn. No more savoring of Oliver’s t......

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Categories: bereaving, bereavement, books, death, destiny,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Apertures of Agony
...Was professor of astronomy, ah those heady days Studied fields in cosmology, including solar rays Observed galaxies all my life, seeking exotic events Ironically happens now, as my death’s......

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Categories: bereaving, allusion, death, irony, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Tears of the Cross
...Three crosses stood still that faithful day As the skies sadly wept a guilted grey On the highest hill, they would be seen Ruled by Roman eyes that did demean The middle cross cover......

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Categories: bereaving, christian, easter, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
How Could You
...How could you turn out like this Maybe it was something that I did I know I made my mistakes and had you feeling like second place But I renigged on that bid But how could you Make me choose bet......

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Categories: bereaving, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Ghetto Specific
... Homegrown deprivation weeds of poverty taste like grassroot famine Detroit dark amber alert operatic style ... Ms. Sing Hope is an Ursa skydive dirt bier Purchasing uninsured ash faul......

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Categories: bereaving, metaphor, poverty, society, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Nature of Man
...What prey tell is the nature of man Is it to enslave, oppress and cause genocide Or is it to love to share and to unite It's hard sometimes to tell As the signs are written on the wall ......

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Categories: bereaving, dark, humanity, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Stop All Wars
... ~ (~) ~ "Who is this speaking what can I say for the bereaved - lost amid the shell of their bitterness and abhorrence?" "Who will reject this speak for their......

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Categories: bereaving, visionary, voice, war, wisdom,
Form: Concrete
Dragons Breath
...Within the cankerous catacombs of the slaving still Where torrential tears fall like rumbling rain As the decomposed dust gets its felonious fill And sanctioned sorrows receive their parasitic pai......

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Categories: bereaving, deep, fear, imagery, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Cross of Destiny
...Three crosses stood still that faithful day As the skies sadly wept a guilted grey On the highest hill they would be seen By Roman ruled eyes that did demean The middle cross covered in rustic ......

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Categories: bereaving, celebration, christian, destiny, easter,
Form: Sonnet
Lament of My Life
...Lament of My Life Contest Sponsor: Casarah Nance ~My Bereaving Eulogy~ Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected, All the love, loss, passion and things I have negl......

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Categories: bereaving, bereavement, blessing, death, eulogy,
Form: Verse

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